Steve Jobs for PRESIDENT?!?!?

[sfwriter]

http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/1/22/6704

Let me say that this is an AWFUL idea. He would combine Carter's obsessive attention to detail with Bush's autocratic manner to give us the most ineffective political iHole in history. He's great at Apple, but the US is not Apple. He has no "legacy" with the Oval Office.

Quoting the article:

"Yesterday on Fox News, Jason Wright, the editor of PoliticalDerby.com, was brought on to talk about the three leading horses in the Republican and Democratic Presidential nominee races and added his two cents on the dream dream horse for each party. For the Republicans the dream horse was no other then Colin Powell, and for the Democrats? I was a little surprised:

"Let me tell you. Steve Jobs, I mean this guy he's a renowned problem solver. He's an innovator. He's known throughout the world for bringing people together, for turning the ship around so to speak. "

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. What a nightmare - every year a new America, totally incompatible with last year's America

forcing everyone to upgrade because, even though the old America might still work, support for it will be cut off immediately upon release of the new one, and no software will be sold for the old version any more, either.

We'd be forced to buy proprietary American items, as well, at super high overcharged prices - the only third-party consumer items allowed will be those things that the American government doesn't make. And the American government will declare that anything it doesn't make isn't worth having anyway, and so will still disallow third-party vendors from producing anything.

[sfwriter]

2. Don't forget suing bloggers...

...Gotta control the message.

[emulatorloo]

9. weird, because my Gen 2 iPod works great w the latest iTunes etc

and I think it even got some new features last year thru an OS upgrade. And my g4 AGP and g3 imac both run OS 10.4 pretty damn good.

[majorjohn]

3. he'll call himself the iPresident n/t

[jackbourassa]

4. I like Steve Jobs...

...and Apple.

[parasim]

5. I agree with this commentor...

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Posted January 22, 2007 @ 9:19AM by PixelSlave
This is the most horrible article I have ever read in Ars Technica. Use your brain, man! Steve Jobs governs Apple in a near dictatorship style. Look at two signature Jobs moves after he came back to Apple:


Do everything his own way. If he thinks he's right, he won't listen to other people. No one wanted him to kill the Copland project, yet, he did it even if it means more delay to a modern day Mac OS. PPC to Intel migration alienate a lot of hard core Mac fans, but he still did it. Public opinions were never Jobs concern.

Absolute secrecy -- He should be the head of CIA, not the White House.

Sounds familiar. Yeah, our current President like to do business the same way also. It's just that he's not doing it as goood as Jobs.

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As much as I love Apple's products, I would not want Jobs to run for president. Well, not at least until the iPhone comes out... hehe

[emulatorloo]

7. I beg to differ with that poster --

"No one wanted him to kill the Copland project, yet, he did it even if it means more delay to a modern day Mac OS. PPC to Intel migration alienate a lot of hard core Mac fans, but he still did it. Public opinions were never Jobs concern."

Copeland was a disaster -- and it was dead BEFORE Jobs came on board -- Amelio brought jobs in back BECAUSE Copeland was dead. His NextStep OS became Mac OS X. And it is a great and well respected OS.

As to PPC to Intel migration, it has been fantastic. PPC was at the end of the line -- IBM and MOTO werent meeting expectations. The intel Macs are great - fast stable and most of all, Macs.

[rwenos]

6. So Woz would Have the Rove Role?

Sitting in the back room, coming up with kewl new technical ideas, while Jobs took credit for them all, and them finally Jobs gets tired of calling Woz "Turd Blossom," and fires him?

We could push this w a y t o o f a r r r r r r . . . . . .

[NYCGirl]

8. I want His Steveness to stay right where he is...besides we'd never elect a

guy who didn't have a college degree (no matter what kind of genius and visionary he is).

Edited to add:

Hey, what about this guy who's on Apple's Board of Directors?

http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/gore.html

[emulatorloo]

10. Yeah -- I like that guy on Apple's Board for the job! EOM

[berni_mccoy]

11. He's friends with Al Gore... Al Gore is also on the Board of Directors for Apple

They share many political ideas and philosophies.

How much do you really know about Jobs.

I agree with you though that I wouldn't want him as President... not for the reasons you state, but rather, I don't want to see the innovation at Apple stop.