Jobs' Departure a New Chance for Apple (2011)
Posted on June 21, 2013 by Rik Willard, One of Thousands of Entrepreneurship Coaches on Noomii.
CNN Editor's note: Rik L. Willard is the founder and president of RULE7MEDIA, a digital consultancy and venture development firm based in New York.
(CNN) — Steve Jobs’ leave of absence from Apple because of health reasons is a sad turn of events, but the timing may turn out to be the most deeply significant move in a career that is the very definition of significance. It may also, ultimately, save Apple from itself.
Fact is, we appear to be at the end of the Jobs era, and that’s OK. Not because we don’t love Jobs, because we do. It’s because the generation he inspired, and the new markets he created, are maturing. Our get-out-of-the-house gifts are the iPhone, the iPad and a completely new way of being digital: the app.
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