The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple

Re:The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple by twic on Sunday March 02, 2014 @03:41PM (#7330669)

I rather like the way the WSJ's stock price annotations add a shade of meaning to this quote:

> "Without the arrival of a new charismatic leader, it will move from being a great company to being a good company," George Colony, the CEO of technology research firm Forrester Research, [FORR -0.08%] wrote in a blog. "Like Sony, [6758.TO +1.31%] Polaroid, Apple circa 1985, and Disney, [DIS +0.41%] Apple will coast and then decelerate."

So, the guy who runs the company whose price is falling says that Apple is heading for trouble, just like those other companies whose prices are rising.

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Re:The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple by davidmr on Sunday March 02, 2014 @03:45PM (#7330682)

If you can read meaning into a one-day price fall of 0.08%, you're a smarter person than I am.

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Re:The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple by pazimzadeh on Sunday March 02, 2014 @04:21PM (#7330820)

I've never understood why the WSJ has inline prices like that. It detracts from the story while only giving a semblance of quantification. For it to be useful, the price window should be at least one month.

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Re:The Job After Steve Jobs: Tim Cook and Apple by eropple on Sunday March 02, 2014 @04:59PM (#7330949)

It makes people click things. Clicking things means ad revenue, even if they take you to stupid things.

User experience? Meh, who cares.

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