Why Steve Jobs Is So Important to Apple

[Joelcool7]

Steve Jobs is a very intelligent man who really knows how the electronics industry works. But honestly he is not always great he to has had flops and flaws like any other executive. Apple controlled 5% of the computer industry until a few years ago and Apple had very few great products on the market in the 90's. Now yes Jobs leave of abscense can be blamed on it partially but under Jobs Apple was not a mega giant until the new millenium. Jobs had the reigns while Apple created several great computers but what about their console entry the PipIn wasn't that during Jobs time?

Steve Jobs is to Apple what Gates is to Microsoft or Iwata is to Nintendo. They are master minds and all three of them have revolutionalized their respective industries. But as we see with Gates pretty much retiring from Microsoft and as we saw with Nintendo before Iwata came (NES/SuperNES) companies move on and new exec's take the prior ones places.

Now with the money Apple has to throw around I bet they could lure in an excentric exec from a rival company or maybe bring fourth one of their own.

I'll use an example Miyamoto Nintendo's shinning star, he invented Mario and Zelda etc...etc.. now you'd think without his direct involvement these games would fail. However other then producing he hasn't been hands on developing many if any of the resent big Nintendo hits.Miyamoto didn't make LOZ:TP he didn't make MarioGalaxy2 but both games were big successes, with him having little involvement other then producer. Right now Miyamoto is an exec helping run Nintendo but not directly involved with developing the software.

In the same way Jobs directs he doesn't actually build the hardware. His absence won't mean death to Apple. The same developers who made the I-Phone , I-Pad and I-Pod are still going to be with the company and will continue to pump out products. The only way I see Apple floundering without Jobs is if their stupid board of administration screws up like they did when they let Jobs go origionally.

All that Jobs does right now is stear a great powerful company. He does not create the horse power he does not control the spead, all he does is help direct where it is headed. With him gone the quality and speed will not change Apple will just need to find someone new to stear the ship.