Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO

[Revolution9]

There's a lot more you can do on windows-based systems, but it comes with more responsibility, so many mac users, especially in college, are content with using it for facebook and to play photoshop

There is not alot more you can do on Windows systems. I hear this from gamers all the time. Pros*know different. I use it for coding and creating art assets for mobile and platform games, architectural visualisation, motion graphics, fluid simulations, geo-modeling, live and recorded music, serial data recording, speech recognition, artificial intelligence programming, physics simulations of rigid and soft bodies. I can code in Java, C++,Objective-C, .NET, C#, JavaScript, Python and Boo, just to name a few languages I can code and compile on the OS X platform in. It has many high end peripherals for medical data acquisition due to it UNIX roots. It works out of the box with a ten minute setup and rarely gets in my way, does what I ask of it and has paid my bills and brought me a measure of fame in my profession. Knock it all you want pal, but don't pretend you know what yer yakkin' about.

HTH
Rev9

 

[Corydoras]

My bet is that he's going to live plenty longer, but that he just doesn't have the energy to be a CEO. I think that if he were dying, he would not want to be chairman of the board.

His health problems are basically because a huge hunk of his digestive system was removed. It's a chronic thing he's dealing with, not a crisis like the cancer.

There are plenty of rich guys his age who are retired and kicking back. He just seems to need a less grueling life than a CEO lives.

I still think that Macs are going to go to the dogs without his being involved as deeply as before. But I would be surprised if he died anytime soon.

 

[RonPaulMall]

Hope you are right Corydoras. And hopefully another iconic CEO, John Mackey of Whole Foods, will be announcing his retirement soon too- to become Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul's running mate!

 

[nbhadja]

That may have been true in the past, but in recent years the PC Laptop makers have all been focusing on the low end. Try to find a screen that matches the 15 inch MacBook Pro for example. You can go to the Dell or HP Business line and buy a workstation laptop that makes MBP look cheap in comparison. HP Envy stopped making nice screens in their 14 inch, don't make the 15 inch anymore, and seem poised to exit the PC market soon in any event. The 15 inch Dell XPS is about the only laptop on the market that has a comparable quality screen option, and that would have been my choice if it weren't for the fact the body design is something out of the late 1990's. Nobody has MacBookPro's unibody construction. I am not an Apple Fanboy. I dread the prospect of using OSX. But I am being forced in to buying an Apple because of the crappy state of the PC Laptop industry.

Sure a lot of the PC market is cheap, but I am not talking about those laptops. When you buy a apple laptop you have to spend at least 1000 dollars. Therefore it should be compared to a 1000 windows laptop.

For 1000 dollars you can find a far superior laptop than Apple. An Alien Ware laptop is way better than apple and can be bought for 1000 dollars. You can also custom make a Windows laptop for 1000 that is much better than a 1000 dollar apple laptop. That is undeniable.

Apple's high prices are due to marketing.

 

[kpitcher]

I wouldn't count him out health wise - he's bought a new liver not too long ago. With his money he can get on the short list of any replacement part program he needs...

 

[mello]

I wouldn't count him out health wise - he's bought a new liver not too long ago. With his money he can get on the short list of any replacement part program he needs...

He didn't buy a new liver. Since he has access to Apple's private jet, he was able to get on multiple donor lists from across the country which increased his chances.