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It seems unlikely. Apple is the result of a unique combination of circumstances: a CEO who is both terrifyingly effective and also has a great sense of design.

by pg 18y ago

It seems unlikely. Apple is the result of a unique combination of circumstances: a CEO who is both terrifyingly effective and also has a great sense of design. There are very few people with both those qualities. Even if boards of existing companies consciously tried to pick CEOs with design sense, they wouldn't be able to, because you can't recognize it unless you have it. So the only way you could get another CEO like Steve Jobs would be the way he himself got the job: by founding the company.

jmdev 18y ago
Exactly. The company needs to be a start-up where the founder will create the device mainly for himself - as his dream device. That's where it starts.... I still think there's a huge revolution coming to consumer devices. Right now, everyone's focusing on phones - namely iPhone killers and they will fail, because the answer is different - and part of the business problem is having such a unique brand that might stand up against apple and that you can build on top of it - when you see people with their Macs open and see the glowing Apple logo - this is a powerful indicator and there has to me something more to this, new, powerful and very unique...and new technologies such as flexible OLEDS etc can be building blocks.. Good thing is to start with a niche target (say 1 million target users) If the new start-up focuses on creating a super hackers device - now they would be on to something...
- froo 18y ago
  One of the step I'd like to see is a phone manufacturer taking is what I think to be the next logical step in mobile technology, where your mobile device (phone) integrates with a desktop device (PC peripherals) more readily. What I mean is that your phone would become your device for surfing the web, working on documents, email etc - that you could sit into a dock of some form that would create the Personal Computer experience wherever you are and when you're done, you just take your phone with you. This would be enhanced with cloud storage and services obviously.

by pg 18y ago

jmdev 18y ago

Exactly. The company needs to be a start-up where the founder will create the device mainly for himself - as his dream device. That's where it starts.... I still think there's a huge revolution coming to consumer devices. Right now, everyone's focusing on phones - namely iPhone killers and they will fail, because the answer is different - and part of the business problem is having such a unique brand that might stand up against apple and that you can build on top of it - when you see people with their Macs open and see the glowing Apple logo - this is a powerful indicator and there has to me something more to this, new, powerful and very unique...and new technologies such as flexible OLEDS etc can be building blocks.. Good thing is to start with a niche target (say 1 million target users) If the new start-up focuses on creating a super hackers device - now they would be on to something...

froo 18y ago
One of the step I'd like to see is a phone manufacturer taking is what I think to be the next logical step in mobile technology, where your mobile device (phone) integrates with a desktop device (PC peripherals) more readily. What I mean is that your phone would become your device for surfing the web, working on documents, email etc - that you could sit into a dock of some form that would create the Personal Computer experience wherever you are and when you're done, you just take your phone with you. This would be enhanced with cloud storage and services obviously.