Don't Fret Over Apple's Lineup

For those investors who fret about Apple (AAPL) sans Steve Jobs, this article should go far to help ease your worries.

"... shares Jobs’ single-minded focus on the customer experience, and when he parts ways with Jobs — the Genius Bar, where customers get hands-on troubleshooting, was a Johnson idea that Jobs resisted — he is often right. Most retailers focus on how you find the right item, he says, how you select it and how you get it out of the store. “We said there’s a bigger idea. Let’s design it around the customer’s life, not the moment when they’re in the store.” Apple’s second-most charismatic public speaker, he is on several outsiders’ short list of possible successors."

We each, as humans, tend to focus monomaniacally on the presumed asymptote as the natural tying together of various threads into one tidy fabric, and conclusion. The truth, though, is that the many threads rarely tie together to form a whole anything. Not even in the asymptote.

 

Comments

[wallawallab...:]

The so-called 'health rumors' were basically a ploy concocted by the like of Barrons own Eric Savitz, and Jim 'Crocodile tears' Cramer.

It was a disgustingly transparent effort to damage share price of Apple stock.

Witness Cramer's disembling doe-eyed concern in the following video, if you have the stomach for it:

www.roughlydrafted.com...

SEC, anyone?

2008 Jun 26 05:28 AM

[wallawallab...:]

Cramer Video:

youtube.com/watch?v=Ji...

2008 Jun 26 05:51 AM

[Fedman:]

I think that Apple will continue to grow and be a success without Steve. The difficulty is that there will be a share price depression that will last for a while, even if the company's financial metrics are completely unaffected. For a Mac user, there will likely be any noticable change. For a shareholder it will be a different story.

I remain long AAPL for reasons too numerous to mention here, but I realize that there is a shareprice risk related to Jobs and that's just the way the market is.

2008 Jun 26 07:29 AM

[BMWTwisty:]

wallawallabingbang sez: "The so-called 'health rumors' were basically a ploy concocted by the like of Barrons own Eric Savitz, and Jim 'Crocodile tears' Cramer."

How can you not mention Elmer "FUD" DeWitt?????? He's the king of the negativity and misinformation miscreants!

2008 Jun 26 08:20 AM

[Toni:]

"I think that Apple will continue to grow and be a success without Steve."

He's Mr. Jobs gor you.

2008 Jun 26 09:02 AM

[tom1234:]

hey crammer who is going to replace you----what is your value when you become history

2008 Jun 26 09:09 AM

[tom1234:]

i keep reminding every one about Walt Disney ---when he passed the company grew and the stock went higher

2008 Jun 26 09:11 AM

[bevets:]

Elmer must have the heat on him. He has been almost objective, lately.

I wonder if "CRYmer", Savitz, Toni and Elmer own or have ever operated i-Phones or Macs in an attempt to understand why the fervent few get fried with their frivolous fluff?

Or are they just on special assignment for ctrl+alt+delete-dumb?

2008 Jun 26 09:19 AM

[Neil Anderson:]

Lots of cool products still to come out of Apple's skunkworks.

2008 Jun 29 03:16 PM