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I'm really worried about what happens when Jobs leaves or dies. My money is on one of: 1) Some MBA apparatchik takes over the company and does what all the Bus
by api 15y ago
I'm really worried about what happens when Jobs leaves or dies. My money is on one of:
1) Some MBA apparatchik takes over the company and does what all the Business 101 books say to do: puts marketing in charge of everything, including design. As a result, their industrial and UI design goes to complete crap.
2) Ditto the MBA apparatchik, but instead they decide to start "monetizing" Apple's leveraging opportunities in a "proactive" manner. As a result, the company becomes full-on evil and I have no choice but to dump them completely and go back to Linux on inferior-design hardware.
Combinations of 1 and 2 are also possible.
- halostatue 15y agoThere's suggestions that neither (1) nor (2) will happen. Currently, Tim Cook is (generally) expected to be Jobs's successor, and he's unlikely to change things that work. But there's a recent article -- sorry, I don't remember the title or have a link to it -- which was talking about "Apple University", which is apparently an HR effort inside of Apple to figure out what it is that makes Apple, well, Apple and make it something teachable so that as new executives come on, they internalize that which makes Apple Apple.
- pchristensen 15y agohttp://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/05/09/inside-apple/ http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/05/09/inside-apple/ To get the full article, you have to buy the Fortune ipad issue or buy it for a buck from Amazon. I thought it was worth the buck, FWIW.