Well it’s all over the news. Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple.
“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come,”
No doubt Steve’s health has played a huge role in the decision, but I think also that this is an indication that he now feels he can let go. Stories from the early years of Apple clearly show his control freak personality. It is a big deal for him to let go of his baby.
And that’s the point. Apple is now “grown up”. And just like a child leaving home, the father of Apple hasn’t completely ended the relationship. He’s still around to give advice and direction. He’s just not making the day to day decisions.
Sounds a lot like successful parenting to me.
Lion is far more than just new user interface features. Apple have fundamentally rethought the human computer interaction at a much deeper level. There are radical changes to the nearly thirty year old document model and quite fundamental changes to the human interaction with the process model.
Applications without processes. Processes without applications. Did Lion just blow your mind?
These are very impressive, significant shifts.
If you haven’t read the Ars Technica in depth review of Lion, and you are interested in the geeky underpinnings of the changes, you owe it to yourself to read all 19 pages. John Siracusa has again written the best review out there of a new OS X release.
I’m out tonight, so I won’t be able to install it straight away. I wonder how big the “App Store” purchase is and if there is a way to cache the download to avoid dowloading it for every computer.
Pop goes the bandwidth,
(Source: apple.com)
