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Steven P. Jobs, whose insistent vision that he knew what consumers wanted made Apple one of the world’s most valuable and influe
Steven P. Jobs, whose insistent vision that he knew what consumers wanted made Apple one of the world’s most valuable and influe
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2015-02-12
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Steven P. Jobs, whose insistent vision that he knew what consumers wanted made Apple one of the world’s most valuable and influential companies, is stepping down as chief executive, the company announced late Wednesday.
Mr. Jobs, 56, has been on medical leave since January, his third such absence. He underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2004, and received a liver transplant in 2009. But as recently as a few weeks ago, Mr. Jobs was negotiating business issues with another Silicon Valley executive.
Mr. Jobs will become chairman, a position that did not exist before. Apple named Tim Cook, its chief operating officer, to succeed Mr. Jobs as chief executive.
Rarely has a major company and industry been so dominated by a single individual, and so successful. His influence has gone far beyond the iconic personal computers that were Apple’s principal product for its first 20 years. In the last decade, Apple has redefined the music business through the iPod, the cellphone business through the iPhone and the entertainment and media world through the iPad. Again and again, Mr. Jobs has gambled that he knew what the customer would want, and again and again he has been right.
"The big thing about Steve Jobs is not his genius or his charisma but his extraordinary risk-taking," said Alan Deutschman, who wrote a biography of Mr. Jobs. "Apple has been so innovative because Jobs takes major risks, which is rare in corporate America. He doesn’t market-test anything. It’s all his own judgment and perfectionism and gut."
Mr. Cook, an expert in logistics, has been instrumental in locking up contracts in advance for critical parts in the company’s devices. It has had the effect of securing favorable prices, keeping Apple’s profit margins high. But it also has prevented rival companies from producing competing products at significantly lower prices.
While Mr. Cook is well respected in the industry, he is little known outside of it. Analysts and Silicon Valley experts said new Apple products were in the pipeline for the next few years, but the company’s success beyond that was already being debated.
"Steve has built a very deep bench of managers, including the leadership of Tim Cook, who clearly understands Steve’s vision, goals and direction," said Mr. Bajarin, president of the technology research firm Creative Strategies, who has followed Apple for 30 years.
"You could make the case that Steve has injected so much of his DNA into Apple that Apple will continue," said Guy Kawasaki, who was an Apple executive in the late 1980s. "Or you can make the case that without Steve, Apple will struggle. But you cannot make the case that Apple without Steve Jobs will be better. Hard to conceive of that."
The company and Mr. Jobs had been criticized in the past for revealing little information about his health to investors. The news of Mr. Jobs’s resignation came after the market closed Wednesday. In after-hours trading, the stock fell 5 percent.
Some experts and analysts claim that the resignation of Steve Jobs won’t have a huge impact on Apple in the short term for the reason that______.
选项
A、Steve Jobs has planted the innovative and risk-taking spirit in its blood
B、the successors will inherit the keen vision and development goal of Steve Jobs
C、the company has already developed latest devices for preparation
D、Tim Cook fully comprehends the thoughts of Steve Jobs and will carry on his undone business
答案
C
解析
属事实细节题。根据题目中的experts and analysts,就可迅速定位到第七段第二句。本句中提到分析家和业内专家对苹果公司长远的发展展开了辩论,但是认为苹果公司已开发出了新的产品等待上线,为未来几年的发展奠定了基础,故选项C符合此意。而选项A只是第九段GuyKawasaki提到的几个可能性之一,不符合题意。选项B、D指的是Tim Cook和其他高管团队充分理解并继承了乔布斯的想法、愿景和目标,答非所问。
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