In case you haven’t read it, Steve Jobs this week announced he was resigning his position as CEO of Apple. He’d like to stay on as Chairman of the Board, and filling his position will be the able Tim Cook.<\/p>\n
What does this mean?
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\nI hope it means that Jobs is going to pay more attention to his health. The workload probably isn’t helping.<\/p>\n
Or it could mean that Jobs’ health isn’t improving. I mean, face it: He looked like a human skeleton at the last product announcement. His clothes were hanging off his frame. It was scary. I strive to be skinny but definitely don’t want to be that<\/em> thin!<\/p>\n Given poor health, Jobs may want to leave now, promote his successor, and lessen the impact that a sudden death would have were he still the CEO.<\/p>\n Regardless, I think Apple is in good shape. Jobs is smart, so I’m sure he has plans for Apple’s future well-laid out. It’s entirely possible that there’s a road map for Apple’s technology innovations that stretches out for years.<\/p>\n In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised that the first product introduction after Jobs has passed on is introduced by Jobs himself in a prerecorded message. That would be something, and it would drive the fanboys wild. Look for it.<\/p>\n Google Swallows Motorola Update.<\/strong> Apparently I was correct: Google’s acquisition of Motorola wasn’t for the hardware, but rather for its 16,000 patents. The idea is that holding the patents thwarts a host of lawsuits Google was facing over the Android operating system. I hope that ploy works, and I hope Google spins off the Motorola hardware division so that it remains a software company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In case you haven’t read it, Steve Jobs this week announced he was resigning his position as CEO of Apple. He’d like to stay on as Chairman of the Board, and filling his position will be the able Tim Cook. What does this mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}