News Flash: Old People Get Old

Ever since WWDC people have been making a fuss about Steve Jobs’ health and everytime this pops up it seems people stop what they are doing and congregate into a massive cluster fuck yelling about whether or not Steve Jobs has a cold or skipped his afternoon nap. To be frank it’s like we’re putting the guy on a pedestal the level of which a tabloid would do on a celebrity over something that affects him and not us.

I know no one wants to go through a repeat of what happened to Apple during those odd years where Steve was demoted and his rank stripped from him until he came back at the helm in ‘97 but that was the past and we’re already mixing that with the future. But to be quite frank, not much will change at Apple when Steve leaves which isn’t a knock at the hard work he’s done but he’s already started to set things in place where people he trusts can take over and not fuck up Apple.

No one is going to become horrible at what they do best at Apple if Steve Jobs departs. I think everyone there realizes this, that Steve already left his mark at Apple and should he go, there are people in place that can carry on the visions of the company on their own. As sad as it would be for him to leave the fact of the matter is change is inevitable and should be used to Apple’s advantage instead of spreading mass fear about it. Look at Microsoft, not much changes over time and things stagnate because they cater to the type of customers who need things to work how they are and be supported for a long time. There’s been enough product transitions and Interface revamps to knock off a few die hard fans who didn’t take a liking to it but look where we are now, if the PowerPC transition was never made we’d be fucked and stuck with Macs quickly dropping back into the dark ages of slow computing.

In the end it doesn’t matter if Steve Jobs leaves or not, it matters if he has already laid the ground work for other people to further the vision of Apple and not be a complete clobe of Steve Jobs to bring varietyand fresh blood into the company.