Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO 1027
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An anonymous reader writes "The title says it all, really; Steve Jobs has resigned as the CEO of Apple, and would like to become Chairman of the Board. Reasons are not specified, but his declining health of recent years is a likely candidate. He's named Tim Cook as his successor."
This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:5, Interesting)
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"A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing."
"owning their own data"? "openess"?
Really WTF are you going on about?
Has Evil Steve Jobs sent his Apple Ninjas to steal your harddrrives again? Did you catch your Time Machine drive phoning The Great Mothership in Cupertino?
Re:This is a sad day for the tech world (Score:5, Interesting)
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"Wait, when a consumer spends a dollar for a iBlah, it's a vote for closed garden."
This is a straw man. The argument here is not that people WANT a closed garden, it is that they don't care. I sincerely doubt that openness figures in people's minds when they buy a consumer product and Apple have proven this with the iPad sales vs. any other tablet. So Android's lead in the phone market is likely to be to something else. Most likely the availability of low-end Android handsets.
Obviously, this is an indirect consequence of the closed garden. Apple does not compete for low-end markets, so there is no low end iOS devices. However, if Samsung didn't compete for low end Android phones, someone else would because Android is open.
But this doesn't change the fact that the consumer doesn't care about openness, even if they do care about some of the indirect consequences, and if Apple decided to compete for the low-end market by introducing an iPhone Nano, they would most likely own that market as well.