With all of the rave, news sites and other technology websites have given to Apple within the last several years, I've always wondered how Steve jobs would eventually leave Apple. Would he step down much like Bill Gates did - to move on with another chapter of his life such as what Bill Gates has done with the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ? Or perhaps he would stay in power leading the company until his death, much like Sam Walton has done (the founder of Walmart). Than again, if Apple fell from it's grace from the public's eyes, much like what happened in 1984 when Steve Jobs was forced out of his position and left the company back than, he could of just as well of been forgotten and been remembered as a "has been" going forward..
Personally, I think Steve Jobs learned a thing or two since 1984 and I believe deep in the back of his mind he was going to make sure that he would never let Apple (computers), while under his direction ever fall from his grip again. I think Steve Jobs read the writing on the wall with the popularity of Android beginning to over take iOS phones - it's like the Apple vs Microsoft battle all over again - and decided to step down while Apple (computers) was at it's highest height ever in it's history. Apple computer's had recently took the title, even if it was for a short time, as the most valuable company on earth while under the leadership of Steve Jobs - not a small feat. Even Bill Gate who was ranked in Forbes magazine as the richest man on the planet from 1995 to 2007, never had his company - Microsoft - achieve that wonder. Apple computers had won the heart of the public at large - I mean love Apple or hate them, they single-handedly changed how music was listened too and purchased in the world, made MP3 players a mainstream consumer product, re-invented what a smart-phone should be, and showed the world how user friendly and how popularly cool it can be to tote around a tablet computer. I mean all these products were around before Apple ever even had a thought in their mind to get into these businesses, but it was Apple computers, under the direction of Steve Jobs, who changed these existing products enough to make them popular and successful. Personally I can't think of any better way to have closed a book and ended an era, while leaving a legacy which historians will be talking about for the next hundred years.
Thank you, Mr. Steve Paul Jobs.
Wishing you the best of health, and a long and happy
post Apple Life.
Wishing you the best of health, and a long and happy
post Apple Life.
