Steve Jobs resigns as CEO

[Lance]

Steve Jobs is now to be chairman instead.

http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/24/steve-jobs-resigns-apple-ceo/

[.Griff.]

He called to resign in March but apparently he was holding his iPhone 4 wrong and the call never got through. 

[Simon]

From CEO to Chairman, isn't that a bit like Admin to Admin Emeritus? 

[Lance]

I'm expecting the iPhone 5 very soon now to minimise any impact on Apple's share price.

[Rik]

From CEO to Chairman, isn't that a bit like Admin to Admin Emeritus? 

Not a bit.

[Glenn]

Last time, when he was removed form his position the company lost it's way, will history repeat itself?

[zappaDPJ]

I guess his health problems have forced this upon him. I doubt very much his stepping down will benefit the company in any way at all.

[Glenn]

He has not been not a well man since before his liver transplant, he suffers from Neuroendocrine cancer

[Steve]

I think the company will go on from strength to strength over the next few years,however Steve Jobs was a great innovator and it's where Apple go in the long term that's my worry.

[lozcart]

iSad   

[Gary]

Interesting post on this and Apples future from The Reg http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/25/apple_after_jobs/

[Gary]

I think the company will go on from strength to strength over the next few years,however Steve Jobs was a great innovator and it's where Apple go in the long term that's my worry.

Snuggling up to Adobe a bit would not hurt 

[Tacitus]

Interesting post on this and Apples future from The Reg http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/25/apple_after_jobs/

That's one of the best and most accurate articles regarding Steve Jobs that I've read.

[MisterW]

that'll be called the iResign then...

[Simon]

[Ray]

 

[pctech]

He was bored so is now Chairman of the Board 

[Steve]

A few may recall NeXTSTEP where it all began for Mac OS X and the WYSIWYG web browser

http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/ancient/whatismacosx/history.html

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/steve-jobs-the-next-years/9461

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP

[Rik]

Are you implying some of us are old, Steve?

[Steve]

Certainly not,only that some of us can remember.

[Rik]

 

[pctech]

They've apparently brought forward the release of his biography so his prospects can't be good.

[Niall]

I'm hoping that Apple will now ditch the restrictive itunes with iphones, and allow you to use what bleedin ring tones you want on your own phone that you pay a bloody fortune for. As for installing on a new PC and wiping your entire music collection, yes, that was a fun feature I hope they'll change.

There is a LOT of room for improvements, but we know they wont do a sodding thing to improve how the iphone works, or is set up. I'm more interested to see how the Galaxy range, or it's replacement will cope after the recent news on that court case.

[Simon]

I'm hoping that Apple will now ditch the restrictive itunes with iphones, and allow you to use what bleedin ring tones you want on your own phone that you pay a bloody fortune for.

Apparently you can, on iOS5.

[Niall]

Oh, and stop shafting people with extortionate pricing on the ipads. I'd love to have an ipad, purely for the simplicity of it so my mum can use it whilst watching TV. The trouble it would save me would be immense, but tiny amounts of memory storage for an astronomical price just makes it completely unjustifiable.