Machinesworking wrote:Not at all the case IMO. Having been to Apple HQ and having a friend that worked there, there was/is a difference in corporate culture that goes beyond Steve Jobs. This simple analogy holds true, I've worked at redneck brutal jobs where the boss literally goose stepped around the place, and jobs where it was incredibly laid back, but the culture of the company was driven and dedicated. Apple fits into the later. So whether they have the people doesn't matter as far as the culture that was/is in place.LoopStationZebra wrote:BTW, every other big tech company has people on staff that are just as talented..just as smart..just as creative..as anyone who's ever worked at Apple.
Wait. What? Aren't we kinda saying the same things in a few of these points?
A culture that goes 'beyond' Steve Jobs may be true, but it was Jobs who literally built that culture. No one else. Or, rather, 'rebuilt' when he returned to Apple. Without Jobs' return, they would have remained the uber fragmented monsterous mess in which he found them.
Now that he's gone, one can only hope that he managed to truly change the culture and mindset in a permanent way. I'm not so sure he did. Examples in the social, political, and corporate world are numerous with respect to failings in this regard.
), but because of the cult of personality that people are prone to, he could bounce back from a failed device like the Cube. Unfortunately because of that same human condition, Apple now has to be faultless for at least ten years to not have it's stocks shocked horribly.
