Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Living in the Shadow of Steve Jobs




He had his own style and with it he changed the geography of marketing world. He brought the iPad on stage in a paper bag and unveiled it as a new age computer. No one can forget the legend he created with the first TV Ad of Apple in 1984 at the launch of Macintosh.  He is termed as the father of modern age gadgets, from iPod to iPhone and than to iPad, he gave all the products that people didn’t realized they needed until they were presented before them.

He didn’t go with the need of the people, rather he made them realize what they are missing. It was the vision of this wunderkind that Apple is still innovating. No one can deny the fact that we got Windows because Apple had Macintosh and the much recent example in this series is of Samsung.

Maybe he didn’t knew much of technicality but, his vision was absolute and that was to present the product in the best way possible, that meant a perfectly designed outer-case, a not so messy circuit (even though no one is going to see it) and the box in which the product is to be placed for selling. Everything was done the Steve Jobs way.

This brings us to 12th Sep. 2012, the Press conference called by Apple Inc. likely to launch it’s new product (new iPhone most likely) but, Steve Jobs won’t be there this time around. New CEO Tim Cook will see through the proceedings and this will be the ultimate test for the new CEO. It’s not easy to replace Steve Jobs and Tim Cook realizes that very well. Though, he had launched iPhone 4S but that was some days after the death of Steve Jobs. The death news was so shocking that it shifted the entire focus from the launch and the product was an instant hit.

But, the trauma of the death is now long gone. Now, all the eyes will be on Tim Cook and the way he launches the new product. Will he get into the shoes of Steve Jobs comfortably, will he be able to set the trend for the new product the way Steve Jobs used to do with the help of the dramatized effects he used to create at these Press Conferences with his new products or will he create a legend of his own.
This is to be seen. 

But one thing is for sure, iPhone 5 is much awaited but more anticipation will be on the way Tim Cook does it. Fortunately, it won’t be long before we will see the new Apple Inc. without it’s Founder Steve Jobs.  

3rd Year Student, The LNMIIT
    

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