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What if Steve Jobs died?

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TheSpecialist said:
But what about the keynotes:(? Will it still be, BOOM, look at this. Turtleneck, jeans and running shoes? Isn't that amazing? Demo time! One more thing...
Opinions?
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No, they'd do away with Steve style keynotes... just one thing that would signal the beginning of the end.

Apple would eventually be just like Sony within 3-4 years.

Same ugly, silver plastic boxes.
 
IJ Reilly

IJ Reilly

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Doctor Q said:
If that's going to be the market reaction, maybe it'll be a good time to buy AAPL.

Certainly, a change of Apple leadership, and all those bios and obits would garner media attention week after week. Is there such a thing as "sympathy purchases" that might even spur sales?
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People tend to be very unsentimental where money is concerned.

Anyhow, to answer the question: The world, as we know it, would come to an end.

I mean, obviously.
 
dukebound85

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dont worry guys, there are alot of "backups" that have had plastic surgery to look like jobs. You know like what Stalin did. Thus, if anything happens to the real jobs, nobody would know lol
 
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dukebound85 said:
dont worry guys, there are alot of "backups" that have had plastic surgery to look like jobs. You know like what Stalin did. Thus, if anything happens to the real jobs, nobody would know lol
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You mean Steve Jobs is like Lassie?

Which means... we could be on the 4th Steve Jobs right now!
 
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dukebound85 said:
dont worry guys, there are alot of "backups" that have had plastic surgery to look like jobs. You know like what Stalin did. Thus, if anything happens to the real jobs, nobody would know lol
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Wouldn't that be crazy?

If they trademarked him and he became like Ronald McDonald or something?

Up and coming young actors would get cast as Steve Jobs™ and appear at keynotes and such with the jeans, turtleneck and glasses.

The Apple logo would change to Steve's face with a bit missing from the top of his head.

They'd sell Steve™ dolls use him in commercials...

(I mean, they tried it with Orville Redenbacher, right?)
 
lord patton

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andiwm2003 said:
well, at least then there is a chance for a headless expandable mid range tower mac......
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I think there's more truth in that statement than not.

Jobs has proven four times (Apple, NeXT, Pixar, Apple-reprise) that he can take a long range vision and guide a company to successfully realize that vision.

But short term (2-6 years), there's a hell of a lot that competent management could do that would benefit Apple and AAPL. And Jobs' control currently prevents them from doing that.
 
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topgunn said:
Well, Jobs had grown so rich, he wanted to retire. So he took me to his cabin and told me his secret. "I am not Steve Jobs," he said. "My name is Ryan. I inherited Apple from the previous Steve Jobs, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from was not the real Steve Jobs, either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Jobs has been retired fifteen years and living like a king in Cupertino." Then he explained the name was the important thing for inspiring the necessary awe. You see, no one would buy anything from Bill Jobs.
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So "Steve Jobs" is sort of like "ceasar?" Ah, I think I get it now...
 
TimTheEnchanter

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Well, we already saw "iSteve" as iCEO which was a public beta version of Steve he was testing. iSteve had a few problems, namely the pricing and marketing of the CUBE, so they pulled beta from the public. I have good authority that they've made many stability improvements since and are keeping iSteve under wraps. If Steve does depart from this world, it'll be the day "he" takes back the iCEO title which means the final candidate of iSteve is released to the public.

(I, Robot was also part of the private beta testing but was so cool they had to make a movie about it. Look at Sonny real closely and you can spot the similarities to iSteve.)
 
mward333

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topgunn said:
Well, Jobs had grown so rich, he wanted to retire. So he took me to his cabin and told me his secret. "I am not Steve Jobs," he said. "My name is Ryan. I inherited Apple from the previous Steve Jobs, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from was not the real Steve Jobs, either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Jobs has been retired fifteen years and living like a king in Cupertino." Then he explained the name was the important thing for inspiring the necessary awe. You see, no one would buy anything from Bill Jobs.
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Best post I've seen in awhile! Thanks for the laughs!
 
TimTheEnchanter

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bartelby said:
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October 2004?!?!

Newbie?!!?:confused::confused::confused:

Bloody fantastic username !!

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Thx Bart!
Longtime listener, first time caller. ;)
I've actually been tromping around here long before that, just hadn't posted much until now. Some might know me from another Mac site which I jumped-ship from months ago because it became a big pile of poo. Now I'm a free-roaming gnome spreading my good cheer and corny jokes.
 
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He won't die. Once his body can't sustain age anymore, he's going to implant his brain into the robotic isteve body.
 
iBlue

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iBlue

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hehehe

Can't take credit though really. It was someone else's brilliant photoshop job (on worth1000) and if I recall correctly someone had posted that image here once a while back. It amused me though and seemed fitting here.

I like the bits on the menu screen myself "melancholy music" "shuffle epitaph" :D
 
njmac

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The transition will be hard when it happens but maybe not so bad as Martha Stewart's company or Oprah's co. At least with Apple, Steve probably has been grooming someone to take his place. Someday we'll know the answer.
 
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