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To: Don Green who wrote (57760)	10/11/2006 11:43:16 AM
From: inaflash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Let's hope he's in the iPod groove, and not Cube mode, when the next CEO is chosen. Not enough credit is given to the "failures", and not every product today was a big hit in it's first version. Lisa gave birth to Macintosh, and Cube transformed into the Mac Mini (and it isn't finished yet). Sometimes diamonds are found in the rough, other times, it takes some digging. Any new CEO will have to be able to deal with both. A baseball analogy is we want a player that can hit singles as well as home runs. Sure, Jobs hit a few critical home runs, but his strength has been that he's consistently hit a high number of singles in between. en.wikipedia.org oreillynet.com

To: Don Green who wrote (57760)	10/11/2006 12:34:30 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Jonathan Ive. All the others mentioned are office dweebs or engineers. Jobs is a design guru. He's not a nuts and bolts designer but he does two things quite well: 1) design has changed. Visionaries need to know WHEN a viable product can be manufactured as well as WHAT that product will be.* 2) know how to hire good designers. Jobs has gotten quite good at both, and I think Ive probably has probably picked up the same skills. As contrasted to Microsoft which is all office and engineering people and no visionaries. ---- * Newton - right idea too early - tech not ready * iPod - timed just right. Hard drive finally ready so tons of music could be stored on tiny device. Now flash memory is large enough. * flat screen iMac - flat screens cheap enough

To: Don Green who wrote (57760)	10/11/2006 2:50:24 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

I think the only way Apple could maintain Jobs' strategy of innovation, were he to step down (which ain't gonna happen in the near future), would be to bring in a proven architect to run the place. Frank Ghery perhaps? Or maybe an up and coming young architect. Architects have two advantages over bean counters, they understand and can partake in innovation and they know how to deal with stakeholders far better that the ordinary human. Besides that, they are taught art, design, and engineering, and business principles. Besides most of them use Macs, so they know the machine and why it's successful.

To: Don Green who wrote (57760)	10/13/2006 4:06:23 PM
From: inaflash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Digital Rules When to Disclose an Illness Rich Karlgaard 10.30.06, 12:00 AM ET forbes.com "...chairman Patricia Dunn. Since 2000 the poor woman has battled three types of cancer: breast, skin (melanoma) and ovarian (stage four). Let us all pray for her health. On the other hand, and at the risk of appearing harsh, shouldn't Dunn's illnesses have been disclosed to HP shareholders?" "Two years ago Apple Computer (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) did the right thing when it disclosed that cofounder and CEO Steve Jobs had had pancreatic cancer surgery. An e-mail written by Jobs described his cancer as a rare and less fatal form called an islet cell neuro-endocrine tumor. Left unsaid in the e-mail was the fact that this type of pancreatic cancer has a median survival duration that approaches five years from diagnosis (go to pancreatica.org). The question now is, does Apple have an obligation to give us yearly updates on Jobs' health? I think so. Apple is a public company; Jobs' health is material--inordinately so, in his case--to the future of his company. Apple says Jobs is fine, but offers no details. "