Author Topic: Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple (Read 3111 times)

Mr. Gundam · « **on:** August 24, 2011, 06:50:32 PM »

This just popped up at the Seattle PI. Legit?

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2011/08/24/steve-jobs-resigns-as-apple-ceo/

Here’s the news release from Apple CEO Steve Jobs announcing his resignation:

August 24, 2011–To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:

I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.

I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.
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cool breeze · « **Reply #1 on:** August 24, 2011, 06:54:10 PM »

not entirely the same, but didn't apple flounder in the 90s without Jobs?

now it's Androids time to shine!

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #2 on:** August 24, 2011, 06:55:30 PM »

i bet he has already died and this is apple preparing ahead of time

Himu · « **Reply #3 on:** August 24, 2011, 06:56:41 PM »

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #4 on:** August 24, 2011, 07:16:49 PM »

Quote from: Green Man on August 24, 2011, 07:01:16 PM

We'll see how this goes, I guess. Ballmer taking over MS was pretty bad but I bet being in charge of Apple is a lot easier.

Make a thing, put an Apple logo on it, sell it for twice what it's worth. Profit.

Brehvolution · « **Reply #5 on:** August 24, 2011, 08:16:32 PM »

It's not like he did anything anyways.

Will his pension be $1 a year? I know they go by the average of the last 3 years of employment.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #6 on:** August 24, 2011, 08:27:33 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov® EDGE™ on August 24, 2011, 07:16:49 PM

Quote from: Green Man on August 24, 2011, 07:01:16 PM
We'll see how this goes, I guess. Ballmer taking over MS was pretty bad but I bet being in charge of Apple is a lot easier.

Make a thing, put an Apple logo on it, sell it for twice what it's worth. Profit.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #7 on:** August 24, 2011, 08:54:55 PM »

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

/wrists

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #8 on:** August 24, 2011, 08:58:35 PM »

wonder if all the hipsters will go to microsoft now that a cool guy isn't in charge of apple

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #9 on:** August 24, 2011, 08:59:35 PM »

Tim Cook is pretty cool

Diunx · « **Reply #10 on:** August 24, 2011, 09:16:55 PM »

And not a single fuck was giving.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #11 on:** August 24, 2011, 09:21:10 PM »

They should hire Reggie from Nintendo!

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #12 on:** August 24, 2011, 09:24:00 PM »

I'll give him all proper respects and I assume he's dead within a year, and I'm seriously not trying to be glib, but dude had PANCREATIC cancer seven earth years ago. He had an amazing run.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #13 on:** August 24, 2011, 09:35:18 PM »

https://twitter.com/fakesarahpalin/status/106509765806522372

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #14 on:** August 24, 2011, 09:37:01 PM »

Yeah, you could probably count it in weeks rather than months...it's just that weird pro/anti Apple people and non-people (Apple bloggers) have been ghoulishly predicting his death for so long I just don't want to really join their pool.

Himu · « **Reply #15 on:** August 24, 2011, 09:38:06 PM »

I think that's the creepy part. It's as if people WANT him to die.

Himu · « **Reply #16 on:** August 24, 2011, 10:12:51 PM »

I think people put Apple stickers on their cars because they have no other use for the stickers. When I bought my ipod touch, it came with an Apple sticker. I didn't know wtf to do with it

lennedsay · « **Reply #17 on:** August 24, 2011, 10:24:40 PM »

1.) Opened this thread
2.) Opened Facebook
3.) First status on my newsfeed: "My iPhone just died!"

Bacchus7 · « **Reply #18 on:** August 25, 2011, 12:22:44 AM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on August 24, 2011, 10:12:51 PM

I think people put Apple stickers on their cars because they have no other use for the stickers. When I bought my ipod touch, it came with an Apple sticker. I didn't know wtf to do with it

So you're happy with your bumper sticker?

Bacchus7 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 25, 2011, 12:25:52 AM »

No wonder you got pulled over.

Himu · « **Reply #20 on:** August 25, 2011, 12:56:39 AM »

Actually, I just threw them away.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #21 on:** August 25, 2011, 01:05:40 AM »

I wish Apple never existed.

(typed on a PowerMac while listening to an iPod

)

Himu · « **Reply #22 on:** August 25, 2011, 01:56:43 AM »

Well, that's not a distinguished mentally-challenged post at all sceneman.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #23 on:** August 25, 2011, 02:28:06 AM »

yeah that was the joke or something

Himu · « **Reply #24 on:** August 25, 2011, 02:29:39 AM »

I wish Microsoft never existed

He says, as he typed from his Windows Vista OS enabled laptop

The Sceneman · « **Reply #25 on:** August 25, 2011, 02:33:21 AM »

I wish Apple branched out into other kinds of merchandise. I would totally wear Apple condoms while porking some chick

Himu · « **Reply #26 on:** August 25, 2011, 02:34:43 AM »

Quote from: The Sceneman on August 25, 2011, 02:33:21 AM

I wish Apple branched out into other kinds of merchandise. I would totally wear Apple condoms while porking some chick

The Sceneman · « **Reply #27 on:** August 25, 2011, 02:35:41 AM »

of course, Microsoft condoms would be better, but I'll take what I can get.

Sega condoms would be god-tier

Bildi · « **Reply #28 on:** August 25, 2011, 03:24:52 AM »

I still have all my old Apple stickers somewhere, probably some with the multicolour logo. I should put one on my car cos being retro is hip.

Sucks about Jobs being so sick. Dunno what Apple will do when he finally goes but there's no question of the influence he had when he came back on board in the 90s.

Himu · « **Reply #29 on:** August 25, 2011, 03:30:14 AM »

well these days he's generally just an overseer of quality control.

tim cook has been coo for years. So I think it'll be business as usual.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #30 on:** August 25, 2011, 03:33:13 AM »

Good riddance, maybe Apple can go down the shitter now.

FU for banning my phone Apple.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #31 on:** August 25, 2011, 03:37:09 AM »

All this really means is that the poor fucker knows he has weeks left to live. The actual succession took places months ago. But of course the stock drops anyway. Suckers.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #32 on:** August 25, 2011, 03:38:43 AM »

I hope he gets better. What kind of cancer did he have?

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #33 on:** August 25, 2011, 03:56:00 AM »

the kind that has gotten him two liver transplants already.

I'd love to see the guy live a long healthy life, but this ain't good news. Can you imagine how much hoodoo medical treatments they must keep throwing at him?

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #34 on:** August 25, 2011, 04:08:55 AM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on August 25, 2011, 03:38:43 AM

I hope he gets better. What kind of cancer did he have?

pancreatic, as Oscar said

T-Short · « **Reply #35 on:** August 25, 2011, 05:01:06 AM »

lennedsay · « **Reply #36 on:** August 25, 2011, 07:57:31 AM »

Bebpo · « **Reply #37 on:** August 25, 2011, 02:02:52 PM »

What kind of dip did the stock take today? If it goes low enough I'm buying in for sure.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #38 on:** August 25, 2011, 03:01:33 PM »

I think CEOs and all executives are obiviously overpaid, sometimes by order of magnitude compared to what they actually contribute. But it's pretty hard to deny Jobs re-steering Apple into a singular focus that the company comitted to from the head on down wasn't freakishly successful.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #39 on:** August 25, 2011, 03:34:26 PM »

Jobs was responsible for so much in various industries in the last twenty odd years, so I don't mind how much he earned. The Mac, NeXT and object-oriented programming, his funding for Pixar, his return to Apple and his work with the iPod, Macbook, and iPhone...dude deserves money.

Himu · « **Reply #40 on:** August 25, 2011, 05:29:36 PM »

at least aids is preventable

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #41 on:** August 25, 2011, 07:37:10 PM »

how is gary whitta holding up

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #42 on:** August 25, 2011, 10:32:41 PM »

He didn't get stock options (beyond what I assume he already had as a founder...) or a bonus?

Himu · « **Reply #43 on:** August 25, 2011, 10:41:42 PM »

Anyone who uses the overpaid line of rhetoric to begin with is an idiot. Who cares. Almost all ceos make a lot of money. People's irrational hate for Apple is really that high?

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #44 on:** August 25, 2011, 11:31:24 PM »

I think you could make a case that many who worked under him are underpaid for their contributions. Logically, that means someone else is OVERpaid.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #45 on:** August 25, 2011, 11:41:54 PM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on August 25, 2011, 03:38:43 AM

I hope he gets better. What kind of cancer did he have?

You know the kind of cancer you get better from eventually? That's not the one he has $:-\$

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #46 on:** August 25, 2011, 11:47:19 PM »

From Wikipedia:

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For all stages combined, the 1-year relative survival rate is 25%, and the 5-year survival is estimated as less than 5% to 6%.
For local disease, the 5-year survival is approximately 20%.
For locally advanced and for metastatic disease, which collectively represent over 80% to 85-90% of individuals, the median survival is about 10 and 6 months, respectively. Without active treatment, metastatic pancreatic cancer has a median survival of 3–5 months; complete remission is rare.

Quote

pancreatic cancer has one of the highest fatality rates of all cancers

So, yeah, borrowed time.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #47 on:** August 26, 2011, 06:03:47 AM »

No american ceo is making the bulk f his money from standard salary, so tha buck a year tihng isnt too telling.

chronovore · « **Reply #48 on:** August 26, 2011, 07:07:33 AM »

Did he really get two liver transplants? How does that even happen? I thought there was a crazy wait for livers. And stuff.

Were there there a lot of Apple interns waking up with hastily closed surgery scars, in bathtubs full of ice and apology notes taped to them?

chronovore · « **Reply #49 on:** August 26, 2011, 07:21:09 AM »

Brehvolution · « **Reply #50 on:** August 26, 2011, 09:08:56 AM »

2 liver transplants and no pancreas transplant?

Mupepe · « **Reply #51 on:** August 26, 2011, 10:28:38 AM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on August 25, 2011, 11:47:19 PM

From Wikipedia:

Quote
For all stages combined, the 1-year relative survival rate is 25%, and the 5-year survival is estimated as less than 5% to 6%.
For local disease, the 5-year survival is approximately 20%.
For locally advanced and for metastatic disease, which collectively represent over 80% to 85-90% of individuals, the median survival is about 10 and 6 months, respectively. Without active treatment, metastatic pancreatic cancer has a median survival of 3–5 months; complete remission is rare.

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pancreatic cancer has one of the highest fatality rates of all cancers

So, yeah, borrowed time.

My dad lived with pancreatic cancer for 4 years

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He also had skin and lung cancer

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AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #52 on:** August 26, 2011, 07:04:51 PM »

Quote from: Billy Rygar on August 26, 2011, 03:14:43 PM

Quote from: Zero Hero on August 26, 2011, 09:08:56 AM
2 liver transplants and no pancreas transplant?

They don't do pancreas transplants on pancreatic cancer patients

and they wonder why the death rate is so high

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #53 on:** August 26, 2011, 08:18:58 PM »

latest picture of Jobs
http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/26/steve-jobs-apple-photo-resignation-ceo-sick/#.Tlg3uF1M5WM

jesus fuck $:-\$ :'(

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #54 on:** August 26, 2011, 08:24:14 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on August 26, 2011, 08:18:58 PM

latest picture of Jobs
http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/26/steve-jobs-apple-photo-resignation-ceo-sick/#.Tlg3uF1M5WM

jesus fuck $:-\$ :'(

$:-\$

Himu · « **Reply #55 on:** August 26, 2011, 08:25:03 PM »

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #56 on:** August 27, 2011, 07:46:50 AM »

God, that's depressing. Reminds me of seeing a co-worker just before he died of colon cancer. Hard to believe Jobs was still working in any kind of capacity in that state. Poor bastard

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #57 on:** August 27, 2011, 09:20:27 AM »

Quote from: Cormacaroni on August 27, 2011, 07:46:50 AM

Hard to believe Jobs was still working in any kind of capacity in that state. Poor bastard

He's been on medical leave since January.

chronovore · « **Reply #58 on:** August 27, 2011, 09:48:14 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on August 26, 2011, 08:18:58 PM

latest picture of Jobs
http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/26/steve-jobs-apple-photo-resignation-ceo-sick/#.Tlg3uF1M5WM

jesus fuck $:-\$ :'(

Holy mackerel. That's gaunt.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #59 on:** August 27, 2011, 11:46:59 AM »

Maybe, but it's not like he was looking especially robust the last few public appearances.

Even if he doesn't look like that now I'd bet he does within a month $:-\$

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Author Topic: Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple (Read 3111 times)