Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO

Wow! Was this news a shocker. The last few days have been filled with surprise news stories…HP drops it’s tablet and phone business (and maybe its computer business), Google buys Motorola…and now Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO. That is too bad, especially since it is probably health-related. I hope whatever may be wrong with him is not life threatening.

He certainly has been the most innovative CEO I have ever seen. His computers are very good (albeit very expensive), but his real genius has been in devices…such as the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad. He set the standard for all these devices and everyone else is just playing catch-up. The iPods are still the best devices available for music and the iPad leaves all other tablets in the dust. Can’t wait to see the iPad 3. Not only that, it is changing the way we compute. In short, he created and successfully marketed whole new lines of products and made them easy for people to use. 

Arguably, the smartphone market has caught up to the iPhone, specifically the Android-based phones, but there is a new iPhone coming out very soon so it will be interesting to see what new things it has to offer.

I think his latest innovation, the iCloud, is so simple but so smart. It keeps all your devices in sync instantaneously. It just shows how far ahead of everyone else. Microsoft has everything it needs to do the same thing, but they seem to lack the vision to make it work as easily as Apple. Microsoft’s implementation of cloud-based synchronization is so arcane and difficult to use that is makes me ask the question, “What were they thinking.”

It will be interesting to see what the future holds for Apple without Steve Jobs. Even though I only use one Apple product, I always look forward to seeing their next new product. Good luck to you, Steve. You did good. - JRC

Steve Jobs steps down from Apple

Apple CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs resigned today as chief executive officer from Apple. His place at the top of the company will be taken by Tim Cook, previously Apple's chief operating officer. 

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