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- Dumbledorito, on 06/24/2008, -0/+298"Fill his shoes?" Shouldn't it be "wear his turtleneck?"
- nahsrocketeer75, on 06/24/2008, -3/+204How could they have missed the most obvious one? Fake Steve Jobs.
- jcwuerfl, on 06/24/2008, -6/+144I hear Bill Gates is available.
- inactive, on 06/24/2008, -2/+109How could you have missed the obvious headline of "After Steve's Job"?
- kru1e, on 06/24/2008, -1/+103WOZ!
- porplem, on 06/24/2008, -3/+69I'm guessing it will be a white man.
- Dumbledorito, on 06/24/2008, -5/+61They all left after Jobs' original presentation for the "iTouch" project.
- 3amboo, on 06/24/2008, -1/+55Steve Jobs already has nanomachines in him... he will run Apple forever.
- dvddesign, on 06/24/2008, -0/+49Oh *****! IT'S ME?
I knew being a mac fanboy for all these years would pay off. - Rudegar, on 06/24/2008, -2/+45i say let steve point him out!
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/images/2008/03/06/st ...
:P - dibling, on 06/24/2008, -4/+42My vote is WALL-E
- sockpuppets, on 06/24/2008, -4/+35Whoever he is- make sure he looks good in a turtleneck.
- neggbird, on 06/24/2008, -2/+27I say the cyborg, Bertrand Serlet, should win.
- kkiran, on 06/24/2008, -12/+34Not a single woman in the exec board?!
- forgiste, on 06/24/2008, -3/+25I think it's gonna be Scott Forstall. He needs some work with presentation though, as you can plainly see at WWDC 08. I have faith in him though.
- mk3k, on 06/24/2008, -6/+27White males thinking different.
You don't have to be a different color to think different, you racist. :) - inactive, on 06/24/2008, -1/+20Wow now that would be funny. Imagine the riots in the moscone center at that announcement.
- knuckles, on 06/24/2008, -2/+20My vote is for Brian Boitano. He'd know what to do.
- sockpuppets, on 06/24/2008, -8/+25Scientists in the year 2012 determine black turtlenecks give you cancer.
- xero9, on 06/24/2008, -2/+19BUT you'll be a dick on an Apple article. Way to go!
- sockpuppets, on 06/24/2008, -5/+19As an unemployed white male I salute this apple philosophy.
- danielsamuels, on 06/24/2008, -8/+22Why are they all so butt ugly? My money is on Scott Forstall.
- MonkeyHugger, on 06/24/2008, -1/+15How dare they employ white people
- eldridgea, on 06/24/2008, -3/+16iTunes DRM is *way* less restrictive than Microsoft DRM.
But the iPhone totally should have way more freedom, but the SDK is a good step. - dagamer34, on 06/24/2008, -2/+14As soon as I saw Jonathan Ive on that list, I knew they were ***** crazy. Industrial design skills, no matter how excellent, do not translate directly into business skills. And the problem with the CEO position (much like Bill Gate's problem in the 90's) is that you really don't do any of the wonderful things when you head a department when you become CEO. There's just too much minutiae to manage when your CEO to do anything but.
- inactive, on 06/24/2008, -2/+13And yet they are so successful. Go figure.
Apple needs a focused and level headed thinker with inspiration not some Carly Fiorina/Patricia Dunn type skank obsessed with "the glass ceiling" and out to break balls to prove a point. - SpankyBojangles, on 06/24/2008, -3/+14Fadell is the imaginative go-getter...who else but the guy who dreamed up and executed the iPod should be at the top?
Most of the other guys (except Ive) are traditional suits - probably capable but not inspiring. And Apple can't go corporate...we'd have a mini-Microsoft. - Gryffydd, on 06/24/2008, -1/+11Best designer maybe...doesn't mean he'd be a good CEO.
- Skootles, on 06/25/2008, -0/+10I'm sure he'd kick an ass or two.
- inactive, on 06/25/2008, -1/+10Schiller FTL. Jonathon Ive is the only person at Apple I've seen speak with the same ethic as Steve Jobs.
- Noein, on 06/24/2008, -0/+9"some nasty life-threatening disease of which I cannot remember" - pancreatic cancer
- inactive, on 06/24/2008, -2/+11Wrong...not you. Jobs is pointing right at me. YES, I am gona be a CEO.
- lordtyros, on 06/24/2008, -2/+11Oh *****, I must have stepped in a time warp to 2005
- WhoRadley, on 06/24/2008, -1/+9Rick Rolling isn't tech news
- WiseWeasel, on 06/24/2008, -14/+22I say sell to Google and let Eric Schmidt take it... They need someone with a pair.
- inactive, on 06/24/2008, -0/+8Yeah I wonder what carefully manicured but yet tiresome quirk he'll have, steve had his turtle neck and jeans, maybe the next guy will freak out completely and wear odd socks, or a clown nose.
- sexybobo, on 06/24/2008, -15/+23What no Steve Ballmer? I think he would be a great CEO for apple.
- MattBD, on 06/24/2008, -1/+9Actually, I believe Jesus is a Linux user:
http://www.whatwouldjesusdownload.com/christianubu ... - inactive, on 06/24/2008, -1/+9Get your tongue out of Kevin's anus.
- optionshiftk, on 06/24/2008, -2/+10From what I have gathered, I predict Scott Forestall will replace Steve Jobs....Forestall has many of the same meticulous obsessions that steve has.
- techguru2006, on 06/24/2008, -0/+8Ron Johnson should be the next CEO. The article states that he is the 2nd most charismatic speaker after Jobs. With a company like Apple, you know you need a charismatic speaker at the top. Who else will wow the fans at WWDC?
- freshyill, on 06/24/2008, -0/+8I would have *never* guessed that this would be in an annoying slideshow format spread across 11 pages. ***** you and your inflated pageviews, CNN.
Also, ***** you to Forbes. - gllopc, on 06/24/2008, -3/+11Well, we'll all be dead by the end of 2012 anyway, so wear up.
- jenel, on 06/25/2008, -0/+7That's what Brian Boitano'd do.
- zuzo, on 06/24/2008, -2/+9John Appleseed?
- ExSlashdotter, on 06/24/2008, -0/+7real answer: he had pancreatic cancer. If you had get cancer, but got to pick which type, this would not be near the top of your list.
- meatmcguffin, on 06/24/2008, -4/+11Here we go again...
DRM is due to the media corporations that Apple has to obey to sell their music. Same with Microsoft's Zune Music store or Janus or whatever the hell it's called this week.
Might also want to point out here that some of the music you bought from MS *own* music store a year ago isn't compatible with the new store and Zunes and you'll need to buy it all over again.
Limiting products? How? People can write programs on OS X and hack it as much as they want. (no serial numbers by the way - just how limiting is Windows Genuine Advantage anyway?) iPods are a little more limited but i don't see MS allowing you to hack up their music players without fixes soon after. Neither company can because, again, it opens theoretical holes to get around DRM because of, again, the music industry.
Mac hardware is a little limited but seeing as the Mac Pro is customisable heaven and PC laptops aren't upgradable either that leaves the iMac and the Mac Mini. Two computers of the seven they make, one of which is nearly disposable.
***** great point you have there. - hartley, on 06/24/2008, -0/+6Who wouldn't want to buy a computer from Bertrand Serlet.
- MavRevMatt, on 06/24/2008, -1/+7He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2004 I think, and he did have an operation. Either the cancer is still hurting or it's, as they said on TWiT, the result of being a vegan who had cancer.
- rasterbator, on 06/25/2008, -1/+7What about the other Steve? Steve Wozniak would be perfect.
1. He co-founded the company and is filthy stinking rich, so he could have a similar salary package as Steve Jobs – $1 per year plus percentage… although WOZ would prefer a sheet of $2 bills plus percentage.
2. He is brilliant and intriguing. It would be like Gene Wilder in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory… only it would be WOZ… and the Apple Factory.
3. He could facilitate growth of the computer side of the business to match the success level of the iPod, iPhone and OS X.
4. And last but not least, nobody would expect it. Sure it would ruffle some feathers, but who cares? -
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