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Comments on: Apple executive parade not prelude to change

Just because CEO Steve Jobs shared the stage with several of his top lieutenants at Tuesday's notebook announcement doesn't mean he's ready to give up control.

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by themainbreeze October 15, 2008 3:11 PM PDT
Sam Diaz's ignorance should be enough to showcase his lack of any credibility. Just because he hasn't ever seen other executives share every other Apple event only goes to show how much he knows about the company. He should have a an " Apple Ignoramus" attached to anything he writes about Apple.
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by iertry October 15, 2008 3:12 PM PDT
Yes Jobs has shared the stage with people in the past but never to this degree. At yesterday's event most of his work was introducing other people (ok I'm being a bit over exaggerative but you get my point). WWDC this year Scott and Phil did a lot of the presentation. Now Tim and Jony both did a lot of the presentation and they showed a video to demonstrate lots of the manufacturing process; and it didn't include Jobs at all. I think that he will soon be taking a less active role (though not to the degree of Gates move) but I don't think it will be because of his health.
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by Mr. Dee October 15, 2008 4:31 PM PDT
What was interesting to see was how gaunt looking Tim Cook was like Steve Jobs. Must be something in the water over at Cupertino or he caught SJ's bug.
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by DrtyDogg October 15, 2008 6:11 PM PDT
I thought it was just a little reminder to the press who have been screaming about Apple not having a succesor to Jobs. Kind of like "hey we've got other people who can do this pony show too." If that was the case though it seems to have back fired based on reading a lot of blogs of "Steve's Last Show?" etc.
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by solitare_pax October 16, 2008 2:22 AM PDT
So there's nothing better to do than waste pixels on a story about Jobs sharing the stage? What next, a story about how they split the bill at dinner afterwards? Other than Bill Gates at Microsoft, how many people in the general public can name the heads of Adobe, Dell, HP, Intel and their designated successors? Apparently, they can't rank too far up there on the mindless media's designated deathwatch as Mr. Jobs does.
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by Alvaro Soto October 17, 2008 3:46 AM PDT
Sorry, but unless you are really new to the Mac you should now that is not the first time Ive and the others take stage to talk about products and upgrades, they have been doing that for the last couple of years.
I can remember the first flat panel iMac introduction video that had Ive showcasing all the design stuff of the new iMac, also on that video Black Eye Peas was present talking about it.
Phil Shiller and other has taken stage too for the iPhone, others for Mobil Me and so on, so please come on and be serious and don't spread false information or guess to the general public.
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