Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple

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    I don't think it matters what public things. What matters is how he ran the company and his visions and I don't see anyone in today's business world that can match that role within Apple. In that way Jobs was truly very unique.

    There are no CEOs that are capable of turning a company such as Apple from bankruptcy to the most powerful company in the world. At least not the ones I have seen so far. You have to be doing A LOT of things right (at least in terms of your own company) to do that and thinking that a project manager guy like Cook (and he was really that. He was managing divisions based on Jobs' orders) can replace a business visionary like Jobs.

    Jobs' strength was not the fact he was anal about details and making pretty products and yelling at people at Apple and ruling with iron fist, his strength was his vision and putting together EVERYTHING in his mind and evaluating where the market lacks and pushing Apple to dominate that market. This is what made Apple a leader.

    I'm less than confident Cook can do that. I'm sure a lot of Jobs views on things reflected on Cook considering he was working directly under Jobs and he might try to mimic Jobs in some things and he can try to think "This is what Jobs would have wanted" but in the end it's still Cook and not Jobs who runs the company.

    He's a great COO but he's no visionary.

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    • i think you read a little more into what i said than what was implied. but that's cooSteveJobs
    • i was merely pointing out one of his many facets.SteveJobs
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