Comments on: Why Apple can't send Jobs packing

CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says the appearance of impropriety won't be enough for the board to force out the CEO.

[toosday]

Celebritity CEOs Make Me Uncomfortable

I've never felt comfortable when a CEO is BIGGER than the company
he/she works for. That's why I'm glad Bill Gates is stepping down
his "day-to-day activities". (Although I don't think he's been bigger
than Microsoft in quite a while.)

The best companies are well-oiled machines that can keep on
running with or without their current leadership. I'm unsure if
Apple can survive without Steve Jobs. It'd be interesting when he
does finally step down.

[i_made_this]

The primary reason Apple can't send Jobs..

...packing is it is he along with his old colleague & friend the CEO of Google who sits on Apple's Board just as Jobs sits on Google's that, together, will arrange the merger and or acquisition of Apple and Google.

[Andy kaufman]

Apple is the new Enron

because these are the warning signs that Enron had, before their CEO screwed everyone over and killed the company.

If Apple won't get rid of Jobs due to all of these issues with him, Apple will become the next Enron.

[djchrysys]

Jobs and Apple

Ok so Jobs has Gore who is a member of one of the most corrupt presidents party since I don't know when on his side, when are people going to wake up. Apple and MS both are screwing things up, makes ya kinda wonder if Jobs and Gates meet in secret to see how much havoc they can cause and look like bitter rivals hmmm sounds too much like an episode of CSI Miami but both companies have been the center of massive scandles and yet the money keeps on rollin in. I for one would swear off both companies but as we all know they have wormed thier way so far into the technology we use and depend on that even work would be impossible. I am so sick of rich people getting away with murder practically and smiling about it and if I or any other ordinary person did just what they did we would rot in prison for life. Give the little guy a break big corporate America is killing our image and will kill this nations economy, not to mention the consumer will eventually get sick of the poor business ethics of all these bloated money grubbing CEO's. Really are people happy spending the money they make to just barely get by on what Jobs, Gates and so many others seem to think we should have crammed down our throats while they get so rich they couldn't spend it all if they tried and still think they need to steal and cheat to get more?

[djchrysys]

so true

Apple was so uptight about upgrades and users doing things to the Imacs that they bought that you had to have a special tool (also known as a mac cracker) to get into the Macs. Atleast with a pc anyone with common sense and a screwdriver can upgrade their machine rather than pay some tech $75 an hour to do it or have to buy a new one every time they update the hardware since there really is not much of an upgrade option with most Apple hardware anyways.

[djchrysys]

common issue

most people know that Vista has a more strict copyright license so yeah you may have issues but issues are much nicer to deal with than full machine and software replacement like you would have to deal with when you own a Mac