“Who can replace Steve Jobs? When Apple needed a substitute after its iconic CEO backed out of delivering his annual keynote at the upcoming Macworld conference, it tapped Phil Schiller, its senior vice president of worldwide marketing,” Troy Wolverton writes for The San Jose Mercury News.
Wolverton writes, “The announcement last week that Schiller will fill in for Jobs at next month’s event begs a larger question: Who might step into Jobs’ shoes when he eventually departs Apple?”
Here are some of the personalities who top the list:
• Phil Schiller, 48, Senior vice president, worldwide product marketing
• Tim Cook, 48, Chief operating officer
• Ron Johnson, 50, Senior vice president, retail
• Bill Campbell, 68, Co-lead director at Apple and chairman of Intuit
Full article here.
Troy Wolverton is an Apple-basher and a hit-whore. Can MDN put a “Think-before-you-click” tag on the link?
Paris?? OMG.
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Nobody beats Paris for completely pissing away mass amounts of cash.
Let MS hire her, she’d fit right in.
So for serious consideration at Apple…
Ivanka Trump!
Apple needs a new image: young and smart.
Tom Cruise.
We don’t know Apple. He does.
Salesman, Accountants, MBA’s, Lawyers and Bean Counters, all those mentioned in that article are one of the above, Ivie and Forstall aren’t, a tech person with vision is Apple’s only hope, or they will repeat what happen when Jobs was gone.
@ DanoX
Well said.
Big changes coming. Smaller, mobile, more powerful yet less power hungry and 3D. The new ARM and Imagination technology licenses and the PA Semi acquisition are going to yield some amazing stuff. Great time to be alive.
It will be like a remake of the movie “Willie Wonka”. Steve will place golden ipods into the inventory…. the people who find them will fly to 1 Infinite Loop and be subjected to the most amazing techno wizardry imaginable…. and maybe YOU will be named the successor!… unless the evil Ballmer gets you to smuggle out some secrets! (By the way, I already own the rights to this screenplay…)
You silly bunch of wannabes. You truly have no idea what goes on behind the doors of Apple. You talk about things like “vision.” You have no idea who’s vision is prominent within the organization. You assume Steve Jobs is the foundation upon which numerous highly successful products have been built, but you have no idea how many minds are behind OS X, Macintosh Hardware, iPhones, iPods, etc.
but you have no idea how many minds are behind OS X, Macintosh Hardware, iPhones, iPods, etc.
Correct. However, you need ONE mind to see the potential behind it all, and decree “this is the way we’re gonna do it”.
It’s been said Jobs never came up with an original idea himself. Jobs’ talent is an uncanny ability to SPOT good ideas, then drive people to perfect and implement those ideas. He doesn’t need focus groups or committees to tell him what customers want.
Sometimes R&D;labs produce great stuff (the Xerox Alto), sometimes complete crap (MS’s Big Ass Table). Apple’s CEO needs to instinctively know which ones to pursue.
Yep, Steve will be very hard to replace
Are probably some talented folks out there who could do a Great Job
And they might even have his Vision and Aesthetic
But there is ONE major factor maybe no one can match
Doing it all for $1.00 a year
BC
…and Thelonius…. one more thing…
Thanks for not telling us all what you know about what goes on behind the doors at Apple too… (as if you did!)