Steve Jobs has died. What effect, if any, will it have on Apple and the tech industry?

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So, the man who saved Apple and owned Pixar for a bulk of it's ridiculous success (sold to Disney before Ratatoille, Wall-e, Up & ToyStory 3) has passed away.

What effect will his passing have on the tech industry as a whole. Will it make investors nervous? will Apple lose some of its lustre? Will nothing change?
 
People on twitter asking if the 4s is meant to be "4 Steve":rolleyes:.

It's not just Apple that have relied on him, the fanbase is linked to him like no other CEO. If you asked most people who was the CEO of Sony or GE or Ford or any number of massive companies they wouldn't have a clue. And they wouldn't give a monkeys if that CEO died. Yet Jobs managed to weave his way into the hearts of Apple fans. They listened BECAUSE he spoke.

The 4S has already been met with kind of "meh" reactions in the press. Its also the first one that jobs didnt show off. Had he been healthy there is no doubt he would have announced exactly the same phone but I can't help but think that reactions would have been the more typical "wooo yeah new phone".

The death of the face of Apple coupled with the ongoing war with Samsung, Android being ever more popular, Google buying patents to give to it's partners to back them against Apple just doesn't look great. Apple has lots of money, and a massive fanbase that will continue to flock to buy new toys. But it's not exactly a rosy picture that Apple are left with at the moment.
 
What occurred to me earlier was that you either have Jobs as the messiah who was the genius and visionary he is touted as being who saved Apple and all our souls and so the company MUST suffer in some way or another at his passing. Or he was just the guy at the top of a bunch of very clever people who could market a product of the masses very well who after his death will carry on as if nothing has really happened because he was just another cog in the machine.

There can be no doubt about how much Apple as a brand has changed the technological landscape. My question is how big a hand did Jobs specifically have in that. Was he the key to everything they did (as so so many people claim) and so his death must have an impact or was he just the public figurehead of a very successful company who's passing won't really change anything.

I'm not sure he can be hailed as a visionary and the modern Edison if people then say that his passing won't affect Apple.

EDIT: Britboy, as much as I see the funny side of the joke and think its perfectly acceptable to start, the mods probably aren't going to agree.
 
Jesus christ can a mod just close the thread. It's not even a slanging match between apple and android.
 
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