I'd just like to see a few different companies shaking things up. And if it comes to the point where you just have two formats that work well with both programs then the consumer …

Quote: Originally Posted by Salty I'd just like to see a few different companies shaking things up. And if it comes to the point where you just have two formats that work well …

Quote: Originally Posted by JackNN Actually I'd like to see a duopoly where Google owns the information Google already does own the information. Google knows when you eat, w…

Quote: Originally Posted by edgr Google already does own the information. Google knows when you eat, when you sleep and who you sleep with, what brand of car you drive and what …

Quote: Originally Posted by edgr Pretty soon you'll see little googlebots buzzing around the streets: "GoogleBot: indexing your life." Do you have any proof of this?

IMHO. The only way M$ is going to compete well against Google is by splitting up. The size of M$ is its own biggest problem.

M$ is trying very hard to become the next General Motors, a company living on past glories staffed by brain-dead execs whose only concern is quarterly financials and obscene execut…

Quote: Originally Posted by amsalpemkcus IMHO. The only way M$ is going to compete well against Google is by splitting up. The size of M$ is its own biggest problem. That's…

Ok someday Steve could leave Apple for whatever reason. The point is who would be a good replacement? Does anyone other than Steve understand design the same way he does? Would A…

Of course there could be a good replacement. It just has to be someone who can see ahead of the curve, but who won't release products too early. Apple is probably perfecting a vide…

I'm tweaking my resumé right now.

He already left once. Things pretty much sucked then. Any replacement will certainly have to have that "vision thing."

I hope they will call me.

By all accounts, the board of directors is completely in love with SJ. If he leaves it will probably be his decision this time. And with all the stock and options he has I'm sure h…

It would have to be someone with both right and left brain, design and analytical savvy. So who can you think of that is both artistic and business minded and has vision? And is …

With his cancer he was closer to death than we were lead on to believe. So we just aren't talking about retirement.

I think Jonathan Ive could be groomed as Jobs' successor: What happens when Steve Jobs dies?

Quote: Originally Posted by SteveJack I think Jonathan Ive could be groomed as Jobs' successor: What happens when Steve Jobs dies? Ives is an industrial designer, what do…

Quote: Originally Posted by moonmonkey Ives is an industrial designer, what does he know about being a CEO. Exactly, god bless his designs but I can't see him having the s…

Wasn't Jobs an industrial designer first?

Apple will bring back the Newton. And fail. Apple will try, four times, to rewrite the Mac OS. And fail. Apple will introduce a mid-priced, crippled, media-centric, and ugly line…

Quote: Originally Posted by Tally Ho Wasn't Jobs an industrial designer first? No.

Steve jobs more like steve knobs

Jobber Steves will come along, that's what my oracle told me.

Quote: Originally Posted by Rolling Bones It would have to be someone with both right and left brain, design and analytical savvy. Good point. These days, we tend too much …