“Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said Thursday he had no interest in becoming an executive at The Walt Disney Co., which will soon complete its acquisition of Jobs’ other company, Pixar Animation Studios Inc.,” May Wong reports for The Associated Press. “In fact, Jobs told shareholders he plans to spend more time at Apple after he relinquishes his chief executive job at Pixar when the studio’s merger with Disney closes in two weeks. Disney’s upcoming, $7.4 billion purchase of Pixar will land Jobs a seat on the Disney board and make him the company’s largest shareholder.”
“A shareholder at the annual meeting at Apple’s headquarters asked Jobs if he had any interest in becoming the Michael Eisner of Disney, referring to the company’s former longtime CEO, and Jobs quipped he did not want to be Eisner,” Wong reports. “Taking a more serious tone, Job said of the merger: ‘It’s not because I want to be a senior manager at Disney. I don’t want to do that.’ Jobs added that he thought Iger ‘is the best person to run Disney.’ Jobs said he understood concerns that he would soon be spending more time at Disney, but ‘that couldn’t be further from the truth,” he said. “It’ll require less of my time than Pixar did.'”
“Also Thursday, Apple said a preliminary tally of votes showed that its shareholders re-elected the company’s seven board members and rejected a proposal by environmental advocates to study how Apple could improve its recycling program,” Wong reports.
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Uhm, yay?
no one likes the environment….
Wow, I bet the Mac faithful are having a circle jerk after hearing this news. lol
Apple Computers don’t end up in the trash like pCs. We find other uses for our older machines. There’s your recycling program, bee-atch.
You see!
I told you.
Steve is just going to make sure the Mouse is getting what they paid for and then is going to sell his stock off slowly as not to attract attention.
Steve doesn’t want anything to do with Disney. He’s knows it’s a lost cause.
Yea, let those people run the kids show. He has more serious things to do. Continue to change the world, to inspire the IT, Industry designs and other peechee vendors Not just M-I-C-K-E-WHY…..
Just In!!!
APPLE GOING TO SHOW MAC TV ADVERTISING NEXT WEEK!!!
You heard it from me first.
Ok, the reason Apple is going to advertise.
1: Plenty of Intel processors in the pipe, hardware stocked up.
2: Recent “microeconomic” slump caused by US real estate prices and high gas/oil prices.
3: To break the “wait and see” attitude most of the Mac buying public has taken.
4: To show Apple is serious about promoting Mac w/Mac OS X.
Steve is off to Euro Disney for the weekend.
In FRANCE!
He has great taste your Steve!
Um. We’ve seen Mac ads before.
Keifer Sutherland, anyone?
No big deal. The stores are way more important.
is it true? are you macdude?
Andrew, that is old news. That is so 8 hours ago.
No Andrew, they heard it from me first.
It was on other web sites long before MDN.
JUST IN!
MacDailyNews will have a bunch of sucky articles tomorrow.
You heard it from me first!
Breaking News:
Nick’s a douchebag.
Here let me make it easy for you.
Meanwhile I’ll run my morph script.
Well I made it over a week this time.
boy, this Andrew/Macdude vs. pino thing’s really heating up…
Ahh that’s much better!
Kudo’s to MDN for the pruning.
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Wow, touchy! Come on, MacDailyNews is beyond all critisism – the quality of the journalism here speaks for itself. How else would any of us known things like:
1) Dell 17″ laptops cost $4000!
2) French people are all retarded!
3) Paul Thurrot just posted some crap on his blog!
4) Some school in BFE just bought some iBooks!
5) Apple posted some software updates!
Holy crap, I’m so excited I can hardly sleep at night. What will I see next at MDN?!? OMG PONIES!
“No big deal. The stores are way more important.”
People have to know that Apple exists before they will come to the stores.
Simple.
Nick: Seriously, go change your tampon and then come back and join the rest of us.
The name of the site is Mac Daily News. The news can only be as exciting as what’s going on in the area you are covering…
..unless you’re CNN and you make stuff.
Ahhhhh….such disappointing news to all you Steveworshippers who “knew” Steve was going to become CEO of Disney and then make a new ride at Disney themeparks called it´s an “iPod World” right next to “Applopolis”.
Or were you all declaring that he would be buying out Disney? Or both?
Sorry that Steve disappointed you all.
Tome Tucker: This just in, Diane, Nick should get his own site and see how easy it is to fill with news items in order to feed the Mac masses on a daily basis.
In other news Diane’s a bitch – Diane?
amid heady competition, ka-ching throws a hat in the ring for dumbass du jour award
“Steve doesn’t want anything to do with Disney. He’s knows it’s a lost cause.”
Not with John Lasseter now in charge of animation, it ain’t.