If Steve could be resurrected, would you like that to happen?

[jeremysteele]

Apple was going stagnate (as far as creativity goes) long before he left the company. Stabilization is very common in the industry. Microsoft is there. Google and Facebook are getting there. Apple is going there kicking and screaming. Amazon will do so one of these days. That is business - you can't explosively grow forever.

Once a company plateaus the need for constant creativity diminishes. The creative ones will move onto the next thing, as they have always done.

 

[Solomani]

I know it cannot be done now but if it could be done later, would you like that to happen?

If SJ was resurrected?! Umm….. what I'd like to happen is for him to return to his grave. Zombies don't belong in this world.

The dead need to stay dead. There is a reason why humans are not immortal. And even Steve understood that immortality is stupid and self-defeating for the human race. See his Stanford commencement speech to understand. He talks about death, and reminds the graduates that they are all going to die. And Steve says that the fact that EVERYONE is going to die is a good thing.

 

[hajime]

If SJ was resurrected?! Umm….. what I'd like to happen is for him to return to his grave. Zombies don't belong in this world.

The dead need to stay dead. There is a reason why humans are not immortal. And even Steve understood that immortality is stupid and self-defeating for the human race. See his Stanford commencement speech to understand. He talks about death, and reminds the graduates that they are all going to die. And Steve says that the fact that EVERYONE is going to die is a good thing.

Perhaps after seeing what a mess Apple has turned into (at least in the eyes of long term customers since the Apple II), he might change his mind and willing to come back for us.

 

[MacDawg]

Not every long term customers feel that Apple is a mess
I have been using Apple since 1987 and plan to keep on using them

Steve Jobs has become a mythical creature since his death
All of his bonehead moves, failed products and character/personality flaws have been the subject to revisionist history
The good old days weren't always the good old days TBH

I appreciate Apple's history and products, but that's all they are
I said it earlier and I will repeat it here... if we could bring back the dead, Steve wouldn't make a top 100 list in my opinion
Steve was the right person at the right time, but times have changed and it is doubtful if inserted into Apple at this point he would be the savior people believe him to be

 

[hajime]

As long as there are more innovative products, it is OK to have some failures. However, it is not OK to keep releasing non innovative, over priced products for the mass market. I am not interested in them making new iPhone and iPad every year. I am not interested in super thin laptops. I want lightweight powerful laptops with long battery life and comfortable keyboard.

I also want a new MBP with Nvidia GPU. This seems to be very unlikely.