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hey what is going on everybody of nowhere from technobuffalo calm and wow you know by all accounts there's probably never been a two-week period like the current two-week period in the world of tech news the latest and you know it there was an earthquake in New York yesterday so why not more unexpected surprises Steve Jobs has stepped down from his role as CEO of apple press release came out today this is my iphone would be a fanboy four seconds my iphone original iphone box from the iphone 4 gigabyte model iphone 14 gigabyte got the doc in here the phone is somewhere else but the original doc is in here anyway jobs announced apple announced rather the senator press release and the text of jobs letter of resignation to the board today wednesday the what is today the twenty twice x try fourth party vote day today that steve was stepping down effective immediately he's been named chairman of the board of directors and a long time apple chief operating officer Tim Cook has been named CEO and will also sit on the board in his role as CEO and in jobs letter of resignation he basically said that I if the day came that he couldn't perform his duties what was expected of him in the role he would have to step down and that day has come and you know whatever whatever your views on Apple products and the way they do business and everything else there's no denying the impact that Apple with jobs at its helm has had on the world technology in the world of business think about it go back to the days when Jobs was ousted when he was CEO and he was out did and they're a bunch of different CEOs and this is going way back 10 15 years something like that I'm remembering that i was at i used to be a teacher some of you might not know that I used to I used to teach computers and I used to live in New York and I was teaching at a school in in Brooklyn when the first fruit flavored I max came out and there was their huge the kids were all nobody'd seen anything like it in a computer you know and it was a it was huge everybody got all excited that's when jobs really started turning the company back around and you know went from a point where the company was really on its last what's last 90 days before possibly being shut down and got to the point now where a couple times in the past couple weeks they've been the most valuable company in the world surpassing Exxon in terms of market cap value that's just it's an amazing story I mean again whatever you think of it you know whatever your opinion on Apple the products and steve job himself and anything else it's just it's literally an amazing story for better for worse for whatever so from that perspective alone it's huge news and personally you know being I kid around call myself a fanboy because enough people out there call me fanboys and call TechnoBuffalo you know some sometimes people call us a an apple fanboy website of course we sometimes get called you know in voice of other stuff too comes with territory but I've been an Apple user since I was a kid at my elementary school in upstate New York had an apple to be in the library and then we got an apple 2e eventually at home and then I went off to college rise in high school and as the editor sports editor of my high school newspaper little known fact one of the co editors in chief of my high school newspaper is now a senior vice president at Nvidia go figure bonus points if you can name him anyway um but we used a network of Apple Macs back in it and Mac SE and then the mat classic came out after that but you know we have this whole what did they call local talk network with all the Apple little boxes that you would plug into the back of the computer and then you put a phone cord into them and that's how they were network with a little network of them that we did the school newspaper on using a aldus pagemaker before it got bought by Adobe and then went off to college and had a bottom mac it was a mat classic with a an image image writer or style writer forget what it was but there was a bundle that i got and that was my computer at school until when i was a senior i bought a refurbished powerbook duo that's my first laptop and that computer was awesome like nine inch screen little trackball totally portable is fantastic at evident Mackey's are ever since I've used Windows machines I taught for a year I was the tech guy and computer teacher in an all windows school I've worked at jobs where we use Windows machines I have a windows machine right there and msi laptop running windows vista but i use macs day to day and i use them because i like the software mainly they do look cool i think but for me it's the software i like the way the operating system works but more than that i liked the video and audio editing stuff on it so you know that's where I'm coming from with all this but there's no denying the impact of especially in the last several years with iphone and now ipad really really making its mark on on the world of technology and the world at large as mobile technology becomes a more and more pervasive part of more and more people's lives across the globe you know when i started doing this you may not know this but i am I keep saying all these things you I think you think I'm making this up I used to be a teacher or I used to be this used to that but it's all true I used to I started out in tech writing writing for a little publication called Mac directory it was a glossy magazine came out four times a year covered apple stuff and then I got a job as a writer and then the reviews editor for a website called powerbook central.com and then I moved on to start my my career covering mobile tech which event eventually led me here to technobuffalo and so I've been covering this stuff for a long time and you know it's just it's the Apple world the cult of mac right there's a psycho cult of mac Killian who works for technobuffalo now also works for call to Mack it really is it's a cult and the cult has the comments gone from the ipods with the white earbuds to the iphone and out of the ipad and it's just remarkable what they've done so the impact i have my own trip down memory lane there but i don't know I thought maybe you could appreciate it because I think there's stories like this technologies become so personal for people that stories like mine i'm sure you know people have other choice i can remember when i got my first calculator watch i can remember when my dad bought a used atari 2600 when i was home from school with the pneumonia i was out sick for two weeks with pneumonia and he picked up a used atari to keep me entertained while I was laid up on the couch I played a lot of space invaders you know i can remember these things i can remember the apple 2e i can remember my first laptop people have these stories now with technology and when i started covering mobile phones you know full time the sony ericsson walkman phones and the k-series and the nokia nseries the n73 and 95 and 91 those were the high-end amazing phones and rumors started kicking around about apple doing a phone and the whole thing an iphone came out man and it just it changed everything I was a skeptic at first I was not a fan that was underpowered overpriced closed ecosystem the whole thing and I became a convert like many people did and you know again whether you're a fan or not the impact on the industry just just undeniable so what happens now a job stepping down apparently he's still going to be involved a lot in the big picture stuff as chairman of the board but you have to imagine and it doesn't take a lot of reading between the lines to read his letter of resignation this is very much health-related he's been battling cancer people know that the logos off that's all right we don't need a logo you um we just got that reflection of the light bouncing on the screen back on in my head but I its health related and if you've known anybody who's battled cancer or you know battled it and survived or battled it and succumbed you know it's a nasty nasty disease and I would not wish cancer on even my worst enemies and you know it's funny the first thing this made me think of was a teaching job the last teaching job I had before I became a full-time reporter blogger person was at a school we were Mac school here in Oakland and I worked there for two years and my boss it was the director of technology during my time there I contracted pancreatic cancer pancreatic cancer and Wanda wound up losing the fight he died within those two years when I met him perfectly healthy diagnosed with pancreatic cancer fought it and died within those two years and it's a it's just ironic that's what it made me think of because of the jobs cancer thing the Apple connection and all that so um you know I wouldn't wish cancer on anybody and you know Steve may I may the rest of your days on the planet be good ones may be healthy and you know if you're not able to be healthy may you enjoy it over time you have left and the same goes out to anybody was battling cancer or anything else really but the point being that it's health related and so you have to kind of imagine without getting in speculation that you know things are pretty serious they've been serious for a while but perhaps more serious and so what happens now Tim Cook's been around Apple for a long time you've seen them and some of the keynote addresses and the product launches coo you know you have to think a company like this i mean you know a company like this has a product roadmap several years in advance they have a bunch of products that will probably never make it to retail they have products that will make it to retail they have strategies these strategies go beyond iphone 5 and ipad 3 you no longer range strategies so um things probably won't change all that much and they have so much cash on hand you know the plans for the new apple campus in cupertino underway so much cash on hand but you have to wonder what's going to happen the fickle stock market already you know in crisis the past several weeks not just in the US but globally so how will stock market react Apple stock trading was halted after hours today just before the news broke and see after wonder what's going to happen with that and you have to wonder what's going to happen down the line you know the next slip-up Apple has every company has slip-ups the next slip-up they have will probably be over scrutinized to the point of craziness and so if the next product isn't a home run if there's another antennagate you know something like that if Apple the next iPhone and the US does wind up on sprint and or t-mobile and their issues or it's not a raging success or something you know that's going to be under a microscope like like like nothing ever has before and so what's that going to do what's that going to do to Tim Cook what's that going to do the other people at Apple what's that going to do to the shareholders and and and mindshare you know it's going to be interesting it's going to be crazy but I down the road you know is when the products that aren't developed yet or the products that are still in that phase of concept and they might get approved am I not that kind of thing you know jobs notorious for being the guy who at the end of the day says yeah we're doing this no we're not this is good enough this isn't I want to be like this I want to be like that who's going to be that person Tim Cook going to be that person is Johnny I is going to be that person is there somebody else inside of Apple there's somebody else is going to come in from the outside and sort of step into that role and help out you know it'll remains to be seen there's a you know there's a handful of people in the world leaders of industry leaders of people who can do that thing be that visionary and also be that kind of personality you know nice to be around or not and by some reports jealous not necessarily always nice to be around but be that personality who can really drive the ship and see the vision executed and those people are kind of rare you know so we'll have to see what happens it'll certainly be interesting it'll be interesting with everything else going on in the mobile industry and the shift towards you know tablets being hugely popular right now but really only for Apple me not only but predominantly for Apple really if you look at the numbers and is this a trend that's going to you know eventually the other other players in the space the android tablet makers and the other companies will be shifting towards you know like HP getting out of the the pc hardware business moving towards software only and enterprise and the ones who can be competitive and tablets will will be the new kings of hardware or is it just a fad that will fade out i don't know we'll see but it's an interesting time anyway and now with this news i'll tell you what it's been a couple of weeks man google buys motorola HP cans webos hardware don't forget the fusion garage the grid 10 juju too and you know and this news from apple just craziness anyway if you're with me still if you're still listening thanks for listening thanks for you know wanted to hop on here like i said i don't know if SS in the other video john's over in London so it's the middle of night right now but I'm sure he will weigh in on the subject in the days to come as well everybody else in the herd we want to you know we want to hear from you what do you think is going to happen can Apple not survive because they'll survive for a while there's so much cash on hand and so many great products already out popular products um but can they thrive without steve jobs at the helm or you know what will happen very curious to hear your thoughts hit us up in the comments hit us up on twitter on facebook of course on the website and again you know steve jobs from for me you as an Apple user is an apple fan because i am thank you for all the amazing cool if you've brought into my life as a as a geek as a nerd as a tech enthusiast and tech reporter and you know may the next innovator whoever you are step up and do cool stuff because that's how it works you know there's a there's one after another after another that's how it goes alright I'm rambling I can hear it in my voice I heard a few minutes ago but I had to keep going I'm gonna stop now Steve be healthy there you go much much more on this story and everything that comes with it including you know eventually the next iPad the next iPhone the next whatever it is that Apple's got up its sleeve and what all the other players in the space up their sleeves will cover it for you here on the video channel on TechnoBuffalo com Twitter Facebook Google+ all over the place but until then there you go my name is Noah thanks for watching see you next