Don't Underestimate Steve Jobs' Sense Of Humor

"Dictators ban satire because even a tyrant can be toppled with humor. Death and illness are the greatest tyrants."
Gammagoblin, 2011.

Fair play to Steve Jobs, he's not made the same mistake as Hitler, he's quitting while he's ahead. There will be no Russian Front for Jobs. Only a week before he stepped down as CEO of Apple Inc., many were asking where are Apple going to go from here. It's hard to see what else they could slap an Apple logo on... iToaster, iKettle, iToilet, iColostomyBag. Does that mean they will just keep renewing the now staples of the Apple brand (iPod, iPhone, iMac etc.) or are they working on devices we don't yet know that we need?

Some have been saying that Jobs stepping down as CEO is his greatest masterstroke. Well I know the man is ambitious, but faking cancer? Come on now. Everyone knows that Freddie Mercury faked AIDS just so he could write music with Elvis in private, but I don't think Steve has anything to gain from maintaining a supermodels figure. Obviously the iPhone5 is going to outsell everything that has ever been sold before. Nothing like sympathy to loosen the wallet, but jeez, out of all the dirty tricks Apple are up to with patent laws, having their ex CEO pretending to be dying isn't one of them.

Perhaps Steve has a big bag of patents lined up for the new CEO to continue with. Perhaps Steve will become a bit mad like Nikola Tesla did in his later years and we'll get to see an iDoomsDayMachine! Now there's an Apple product I'd buy.

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