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Steve Jobs in good health following second surgery - report
- biohacker42 18y agoThe only way Apple can succeed without Jobs, is if they find another super productive sociopath perfectionist with a 1 in a million sense of design. A sugar water executive won't do.
- henning 18y agoWhat about promoting Jonathan Ive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Ive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Ive)? He definitely has good design sense. I don't know about the maniacal sociopath perfectionist bit, though.
- unalone 18y agoHe's a damn good designer, but he's not a social designer. I figure Apple wants another performer to step up to the lead when Jobs is gone. Besides, Ive is good exactly where he is. He's doing what he does best. A promotion would make no sense.
- michaelneale 18y agoIt could end up being like google where there are 2 or 3 with complementary skills that lead. Ive would probably be one of them.
- unalone 18y agoPossibly - but I doubt it. Different mindsets. Apple is all about focus. They hone in on little bitty details that require a single mind's perfectionist worldview. No compromises. And I can't think of any multi-man team that focuses that much, excepting the Coen brothers. Google doesn't need airtight focus. Apple does.
- michaelneale 18y agoNice to know I am not the only one that thinks he sounds like a sociopath.
- jonknee 18y agoI find the "Steve’s health is a private matter" line a bit odd. According to the SEC it's not a private matter. His health directly impacts $150B in AAPL shares. My health is private because I don't have billions of dollars in other people's money counting on it.
- a-priori 18y agoWhat, you think the SEC is going to compell him to publicize his health? It doesn't matter how much stock you own, your health is always a private matter unless you want it to be otherwise.
- jonknee 18y agoI could definitely see some new rules being put in place sometime in the near future. Steve Jobs is absolutely critical to Apple and a serious disease should be an obvious material disclosure. Not all CEOs are so vital, but Steve Jobs has tens of billions of dollars invested in his well being, it would be borderline fraud to be hiding a career threatening disease. Not to mention an insider trading nightmare.
- a-priori 18y agoI find the very idea of forced disclosure of medical information downright scary, regardless of who the person is or how vital they are.
- jonknee 18y agoI agree, but no one is requiring him to be the CEO of a public company. He shouldn't have to post his blood tests on the web, but something like an annual checkup would be reasonable. Athletes do it before they get signed. Politicians do it before running. Pilots have to do it every year. Etc etc. Right now he could be dying (I don't think he is) and the board/investors are just counting on Steve to let them know. That's not cool especially after he showed them he wasn't willing to do that the first time (going on for months with natural treatments and waiting to the last possible time to disclose that he was very seriously ill).
- albertcardona 18y agoIt's unfortunate that, at least as seen from the outside, the outcome (and the shares value) of a company depends on a single man. There are a few out there like Steve Jobs. They just don't work any further after the first couple million. It's a matter of incentive and motivation.