Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO

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Argh... I was getting ready to start saving for a Mac Air... by the time I finish saving, Mac products are going to be crap. Remember the last time Jobs was away?
 
It's sad news. I have been a mac user since my Apple IIc. I checked my apple stock after I heard & there is a straight vertical line where the stock dropped $25. Hopefully, the stock roller-coaster will smooth out quickly. From what I know about Apple, their products are laid out in a long term 10-year plan so I'll be keeping my stock until 2021. Also, Steve Job's "DNA" of creating & fine-tuning a product to perfection has essentially been built into their design & engineering methodology.
 
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Is it due to his health? Maybe he is dying? He has not looked healthy since he started whatever treatments he underwent. It just seems he would not leave except for really serious reasons.

Hope he is okay.
 
Apple totally ruined Final Cut Pro with their crap "Final Cut Pro X". Pro editors are up in arms about it, many are defecting over to Premiere Pro 5.5 (I myself haven't made the switch yet, still using FCP7). Many on the editing forums are suspect this is what happens when Steve is away. Many of us are over Apple. Every computer I've owned since high school has been a Mac. My next machine will likely be a crazy fast Hackintosh...for 1/3 the price of a MacPro.
 
I don't think you need to worry if you bought an Apple product recently- the company isn't going to disappear tomorrow.

The problem is more likely to be long-term. Last time Jobs left, the company went into a steady decline, and was near death when he came back.

I'm guessing it was a health issue- he has had all kinds of health problems.

This can't be all that much of a surprise, the guy hasn't looked healthy in years.

Maybe he is resigning to become the "secret billionaire" behind the Ron Paul campaign?
 
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As CEO he's likely bogged down with the day-in, day-out of Apple's business.
When he was gone, he founded NeXT, which, though none of you has ever heard of it, had profound effects on the industry.
I'm gonna bet he's going to stay busy, but probably not with the hum-drum of getting more wealthy than the federal government.
 
fisharmor said:
As CEO he's likely bogged down with the day-in, day-out of Apple's business.
When he was gone, he founded NeXT, which, though none of you has ever heard of it, had profound effects on the industry.
I'm gonna bet he's going to stay busy, but probably not with the hum-drum of getting more wealthy than the federal government.
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I imagine that he probably doesn't have much longer to live if he's stepping down unfortunately.
 
I don't like apple products anyway, they're overpriced, and as a guy who likes playing games, mac's offerings are terrible. I think my mac from 15 years ago had a bigger library then the macs today
 
Warrior_of_Freedom said:
I don't like apple products anyway, they're overpriced, and as a guy who likes playing games, mac's offerings are terrible. I think my mac from 15 years ago had a bigger library then the macs today
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The return on investment easily balanced out their prices. My first mac was the Apple IIc which I had for 9 years. My second mac was the 7100/66 which I had for 10 years. My 3rd mac was my 17" powerbook that I had for 4 1/2 years & I'm currently using a 17" macbook pro.

I have had multiple friends & relatives that agreed with you that macs were more expensive so they bought PCs instead. It usually took about a year before they wanted to go "Office Space" on their PCs with a Louisville Slugger. Now I may be a little biased since I've been a mac user for decades & because I bought Apple stock at $51. ;)
 
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I don't like OSX at all, but I'm probably going to buy a MacBook Pro in a few months anyway because it is so hard to find a PC Laptop with great build quality and a fantastic screen anymore. I think that is what has been driving a lot of Apple's success the past few years.
 
mello said:
The return on investment easily balanced out their prices. My first mac was the Apple IIc which I had for 9 years. My second mac was the 7100/66 which I had for 10 years. My 3rd mac was my 17" powerbook that I had for 4 1/2 years & I'm currently using a 17" macbook pro.

I have had multiple friends & relatives that agreed with you that macs were more expensive so they bought PCs instead. It usually took about a year before they wanted to go "Office Space" on their PCs with a Louisville Slugger. Now I may be a little biased since I've been a mac user for decades & because I bought Apple stock at $51. ;)
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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 :D
 
I agree that apple is overpriced. You are paying for their marketing.

Apple fans compare their 1000 dollar laptops to 600 dollar windows laptops....well duh a 1000 dollar laptop is better than a 600 dollar laptop.

If you are intent on spending 1000 dollars on a laptop spend it on a 1000 dollar non-apple laptop which will blow away a 1000 dollar apple laptop easily.

Compare a 1000 dollar alienware laptop vs a 1000 dollar apple laptop: the alienware laptop is far superior. But most people just blindly fall for marketing.
 
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I agree that apple is overpriced. You are paying for their marketing.

Apple fans compare their 1000 dollar laptops to 600 dollar windows laptops....well duh a 1000 dollar laptop is better than a 600 dollar laptop.

If you are intent on spending 1000 dollars on a laptop spend it on a 1000 dollar non-apple laptop which will blow away a 1000 dollar apple laptop easily.

Compare a 1000 dollar alienware laptop vs a 1000 dollar apple laptop: the alienware laptop is far superior. But most people just blindly fall for marketing.
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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.
 
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