As the Apple Turns: Scene 126: Jobsian Suspense (10/27/97)

Jobsian Suspense (10/27/97)

Well, the long-awaited and widely-rumored announcement of Steve Jobs' permanent CEO-ship didn't come today, and the most vocal of the predicters, thessaSOURCE, is now reporting that the announcement may be delayed for a few days. The probable reason for the delay is the current state of the stock market, which plummeted farther than even on Black Monday ten years ago. (For a list of high-tech stocks and how they fared, Webintosh has excellent coverage-- for instance, Microsoft fell six and a half points, while Apple actually gained 3/16.)

What's more jarring to us than the stock market nosedive (since we don't invest, except for a 401K, and who actually believes that's real money anyway?) is thessaSOURCE's amended comment that they are in fact "no longer 100% certain Steve will indeed announce he is Apple's new CEO." As far as we know, they were the first to report that the Jobs CEO-ship was a lock; all of the other sources claiming the same thing seem to credit thessaSOURCE as the original source of the information. So other than the halting of Apple's CEO search, as independently reported on CNBC last Friday, the prospects of an official Jobs leadership remain slightly iffy.

And more of you seem to care about that fact than we would have thought. The results of our "Should Jobs be CEO?" survey are in-- tune in to the results for edification.

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The above scene was taken from the 10/27/97 episode:

October 27, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

124: Duelling Lawsuits (10/27/97) It's an immutable law of high-tech big-business litigation: "What sues, then gets sued." And the legal shenanigans between Sun and Microsoft are no exception; a scant three weeks after Sun sued Billy & Co. for breach of contract, Microsoft has followed suit. And filed suit. To be exact, they filed a lawsuit alleging-- all together, now-- breach of contract....
125: Digital Assimilated (10/27/97) Meanwhile, Digital has met the enemy-- and they are it. That's right; just as Microsoft and Sun enter into lawsuits and countersuits, another long-standing legal battle has come to an end. Months after Digital sued Intel for violating patents in development of the Pentium (and Intel countersued Digital for patent violations in development of the Alpha), the end came not with a bang, but a buyout-- Intel is purchasing Digital's semiconductor operations as part of the settlement...

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