Good Job Steve

[Jamie Franklin]

FCX will go down as one of the things he was so wrong on…the lists are starting 😉

“It’s going to be awesome!”

No Steve, you killed awesome and turned it into the worst NLE on the market…

[Michael Heckman]

My guess is that Steve had lithe or nothing to do with Final Cut X (not in any way Pro). It probably was nowhere near the top of his list during his final months at the helm. Sadly, I think it’s a preview of Apple in the post Jobs era. Anybody remember “awesome genius” John Scully, and how he ran the company into the ground? Iceberg, dead ahead.

[Jamie Franklin]

All speculative I guess. It could go either way. Apple, under Jobs, EOL’d most of the enterprise software they acquired…so…hopefully one day we’ll discover who was really behind this debacle…

[Andrew Richards]

[Michael Heckman] “Sadly, I think it’s a preview of Apple in the post Jobs era. Anybody remember “awesome genius” John Scully, and how he ran the company into the ground? Iceberg, dead ahead.”

Are you saying Tim Cook, who has been at Apple since 1998 and who has been acting CEO twice in the last few years (Apple’s most successful years by far), is going to be another Scully?

Best,
Andy

[Michael Heckman]

Are you saying Tim Cook, who has been at Apple since 1998 and who has been acting CEO twice in the last few years (Apple’s most successful years by far), is going to be another Scully?

Not necessarily. A hallmark of the Scully era was management by committee. Without boldness at the helm, the distance from greatness to mediocrity grows shorter. I hope that Cook has such boldness, but that remains to be seen. And without Steve, it’s by no means a sure thing.

[Andrew Richards]

True. No one else is Steve. This will be a test of the DNA they think they’ve got.

Best,
Andy

[Craig Seeman]

I think individually, Apple not only has great managers like Cook but visionaries like Ive and Ubillos. The challenge will be the ability to mesh since there is no one individual to push the boundaries of the market. Also Jobs is an excellent negotiator and marketer and it’s not clear to me where the leaders are in those parts of Apple’s DNA.

[David Lawrence]

[Craig Seeman] “I think individually, Apple not only has great managers like Cook but visionaries like Ive and Ubillos. The challenge will be the ability to mesh since there is no one individual to push the boundaries of the market. Also Jobs is an excellent negotiator and marketer and it’s not clear to me where the leaders are in those parts of Apple’s DNA.”

I think it goes beyond just pushing the boundaries of the market. Jobs’ attention to detail and visionary leadership have driven the excellence of Apple’s products since his return to the company. It’s true he’s surrounded by some of the best and brightest in the industry but he’s the filter through which their work passes. It will be interesting to see how much of his vision has transferred to the institution.

I was looking at the new Apple leadership chart and noticed something interesting and revealing.

https://www.apple.com/pr/bios/

Notice the role not on that chart?

Scott Forstall is Senior VP of iOS software. Who’s his senior management equal for MacOS software? From this chart it looks like no one. This would explain a lot about the declining quality of Mac OS software releases this summer. Especially if Steve’s been too preoccupied and marketing and engineering are driving development.

Things are probably set for the next couple years but in the long term who knows what Apple will look like? Interesting times.

I wish Steve Jobs nothing but the best. He changed my life and the lives of millions of others for the better.

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[Aindreas Gallagher]

I still think they’re playing dutch total football though.

so apple have set market revenue in the creative pickup truck hardware/software sphere, annnd they also now have mindboggling sums accruing through telecoms and mobile – iOS whatnot.
Still – I’d be the bit surprised if it’s a zero sum game with regard to their attention – that they may feel the need to amputate entire sectors of operation and profit in what is a highly fluid situation, simply in order to gain yet more focus on the emerging markets. When you look at the product role out as defined by jobs – its incredibly stately to this point. outside of the Mac/OSX behometh we only say two things in ten years; ipod and then iphone.

ok it’s three – but ipad is still a mad infant stellar system. I’m inclined to think that Apple are deeply pleased to have more gardens to tend to. they do rather seem to have the capacity. They still need to fix this shagging editing software tho.

Steve jobs – aigne luimneach an saol. Ní bheidh a leithéad arís ann.

below: ten to fifteen years ahead, its insane what he foresaw and built. 1992!!!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQaqDQx3Lo8&feature=related

he trusted great design in his bones (paul rand was a teddy bear?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb8idEf-Iak&playnext=1&list=PL061105C555983899

mad young.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VisNJDd51zA&feature=player_embedded

hangs tough with picasso, f**k it come on – they really should have met.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU&feature=player_embedded

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[Andrew Richards]

[David Lawrence] “Who’s his senior management equal for MacOS software?”

It used to be Bertrand Serlet. He left this past March to focus on research pursuits. He came to Apple with Steve in the NeXT deal, and helmed the transition to OS X. Craig Federighi filled the responsibility vacuum, but has not been elevated to SVP status.

I too wonder about the political implications of not having an SVP of Mac Software Engineering, but I don’t think Lion is a weak update. There is a huge amount of new guts there, particularly for media. They basically replaced QuickTime in Lion with all new frameworks in the form of CoreMedia and AVFoundation. Not trivial stuff. I hate the new look of iCal and Address Book, I yawn at Mission Control and Launchpad, but that isn’t everything going on in Lion.

Best,
Andy