The simplest and most plausible explanation comes from, of all people, John Dvorak
Cook and Jobs
One of the mysteries surrounding Steve Jobs' decision to hand the CEO title over to Tim Cook is its timing.
The assumption underlying most of the commentary these past two days is that Jobs must be really really sick -- which is understandable given the wording of his letter of resignation. But is he that much sicker MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 26, 2011 7:03 AM ET
A lot of room to grow, says one. The beginning of the end, says the other.
Munster and Gauna. Source: CNBC
Few analysts have championed Apple (AAPL) as long or as loyally as Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, who stuck his neck way out ahead of the pack with his early iPhone sales predictions.
Few analysts are more deeply reviled by Apple investors than JMP Securities' Alex Gauna, who has made quite a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 26, 2011 5:54 AM ETThe high-tech wundercompany landed not only on our street corners and in our malls, but also on the top 10 of Fortune's Most Admired Companies.
Editor's note: This article appeared in the March 8, 2007 issue of Fortune magazine.
By Jerry Useem
FORTUNE -- "Sorry Steve, Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work," BusinessWeek wrote with great certainty in 2001. "It's desperation time in Cupertino, Calif.," opined TheStreet.com. "I give [Apple] two years MORE
Aug 26, 2011 5:00 AM ET
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"Steve built a company and culture that is unlike any other in the world and we are going to stay true to that -- it is in our DNA. We are going to continue to make the best products in the world that delight MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer-Reporter - Aug 26, 2011 3:30 AM ET
On first day of the Tim Cook era, Apple's shares actually outperformed the market
Talk about a well-executed departure.
It was only four years ago that Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster told Bloomberg News that Steve Jobs' departure would be a "disaster" that could shave 25% off Apple's (AAPL) market cap.
Fast-forward to Wednesday. Jobs submits his resignation, the market digests the news overnight, and on Thursday Apple loses 0.65% -- which on a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 25, 2011 5:18 PM ET
The badly bruised Japanese giant is pinning its hopes on one vehicle -- and it's not a flashy new sports car or a gas-sipping hybrid.
By Doron Levin, contributor
FORTUNE -- If there's one vehicle that matters most to Toyota's fledgling rebound, it's not a flashy, made-in-America pickup or even the expansion of its vaunted Prius hybrid line. It's the Toyota Camry, a no-muss, every-day family sedan. Badly battered by the unintended MORE
Aug 25, 2011 3:36 PM ET
In 5:50, why he was ousted, what he learned and what happened when he came back
Source: CNNMoney
I'm particularly fond of the latest video out of CNNMoney, and not just because I get a lot of face time in it.
Steve Jobs once said that Apple (AAPL) was only a few quarters away from bankruptcy in 1996. Today it's the most valuable tech company on the planet, with more than $76 MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 25, 2011 3:24 PM ET
His name appears on a remarkable range of inventions
Source: NY Times
One way to take a measure of Steve Jobs' legacy at Apple (AAPL) is to search for his patents in the database maintained by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Click here to get started.
If you look for patents assigned to either Apple Computer or Apple Inc., you'll get a total of 11,112 titles.
Narrow that search to patents that have Jobs MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 25, 2011 11:21 AM ET
From Steve Jobs down to the janitor: How America's most successful - and most secretive - big company really operates.
Editor's note: This article appeared in the May 23, 2011 issue of Fortune magazine. A shorter version of it originally appeared on Fortune.com on May 9, 2011.
FORTUNE -- Apple doesn't often fail, and when it does, it isn't a pretty sight at 1 Infinite Loop. In the summer of 2008, when MORE
Adam Lashinsky, Sr. Editor at Large - Aug 25, 2011 10:59 AM ET
An unconventional org chart for an unconventional organization. CEO Jobs was at the center of it all.
Click on the chart for a larger version.
--Reporting by Doris Burke
*Ronald Johnson left the company in June 2011. Apple has yet to officially name his replacement.
This chart is from the May 23, 2011 issue of Fortune.
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