Larry Ellison: 'We Already Know' What Happens to Apple Without Steve Jobs [Video]

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Posted August 13, 2013 at 2:48am by iClarified

Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle and long time friend and colleague of Steve Jobs shared in an interview with CBS's Charlie Rose what he believes Apple without Steve Jobs will look like.

“Well, we already know,” Ellison told Rose. “We saw we conducted the experiment. I mean, it’s been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we’re gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.”

Ellison is referring to when Jobs was ousted in 1985 by the Apple board, which caused the company to struggle. He then joined the company again as CEO, bringing new products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad -- making Apple one of the world's biggest companies.

Even with Steve Jobs' hand picked successors like Tim Cook and the rest of the executive team (Jony Ive, Eddy Cue, etc) Ellison still has a hunch that history will repeat itself.

via AllThingsD and TheVerge

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Thoune - August 20, 2013 at 12:22am

Didn't really know that Oracle CEO was Gay!!!

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Didn't really know that Oracle CEO was Gay!!! Wow !!!

ewkinon - August 14, 2013 at 1:10am

Stveve always made sure the innovators got their funds- hence advanced products He knew this would bring untold revenue. Tim Cook seems more middle management style and the innovators I sense have a much more limited budget and compete with depts like marketing etc. for funds. With their gaze firmly on the bottom line only for shareholders you see nothing except the ground. Tim raise your eyes to where Steve looked, took action then talked and Apple will survive. Choose the bottom line and fights then the road begins an ever increasing slope downhill. I imagine it must be heady to jump into such a huge transition - I have faith that you will remember Steve and get your balance by trusting yourself and get back on track Here's Hoping

Tahir - August 13, 2013 at 8:20pm

I tend to agree, see what Samsung, HTC and new LG G2 doing with the phones. I am tried of using small screen of my iphone 5. iPhone really stuck in time!

Thoune - August 20, 2013 at 12:25am

Steve God...what a Gaylord name!!! Steve Gay God !!!

Eduardo - August 13, 2013 at 2:06pm

He left plans for a few years after his death so I'm pretty sure we got at least a couple more years of innovation and I'm sure they were properly trained and will keep up with what made them a success in the first place.

Joe Jackson - August 13, 2013 at 9:34am

Larry should take control of the board and show Tim Cook an exit door!

jim jones - August 13, 2013 at 5:54am

with out steve jobs and steve wozniak there wouldnt have been an apple. they were the vionaries of these devices, for all we know we would still be using a clamshell phone or the motorola Razr

vic - August 13, 2013 at 4:53am

All the devices from now on aren't approved by Steve. Well have to see what they've done without him.

zetaprime - August 13, 2013 at 4:23am

Having the company depend so much on a single individual, no matter how brilliant, was a bad idea. It should have been more of a team. Death happens and they should have been built to accommodate losses.

thevoice - August 13, 2013 at 4:41am

Have you read the article? they were a team, the man got austed and things went south, he came back and company flourished beyond their imagination. They are still a 'team' and he's ousted for life now..lets see how things continue to develop..I have a presentiment though..

paulMOGG - August 13, 2013 at 4:19am

Think about this :- All Apple, including the board and the investors need to realize is that NO company is about one person, that's why it is a company ... The only thing Apple needs to do is have faith in the driver and all the people that make Apple what it is .. Stop trying to heap all the success/blame on Steve Jobs as he wouldn't have been anything with out Apple as he had to keep going back to Apple to make himself and Apple successful ....

radfan957 - August 13, 2013 at 4:11pm

Yeah, but Steve Jobs assembled the team and guided the team. The company struggled without him. Facts are facts.

Apple certified 9yrs - August 13, 2013 at 3:50am

I love Apple,but the fact remains that as far as the iOS 7,the i5S,and it's plastic cheap clone are all the proof anyone would need:Apple is heading for the toilet if things don't change,and quick...........Shit they're already halfway there.

iYou - August 13, 2013 at 3:24am

The "MAN" how exactly? Steve Jobs was a man who could take an idea, put his magic on it, and give us something that seems unimaginable. Scott Forstall was just the engineer behind iOS and most people did not even know who he was until he was fired.

thevoice - August 13, 2013 at 4:04am

easy Lenny..

iYou - August 13, 2013 at 5:15am

Breathing in, breathing out, counting from 1 to 10. :)

go - August 13, 2013 at 3:17am

Miserably inadequate!

R beasley - August 13, 2013 at 3:09am

Tony stark is going to make the iphone 10z which features endless supply of battery life and jarvis

iYou - August 13, 2013 at 2:57am

What he is foreshadowing is true, but there is one key missing. Who would be the "Steve Jobs" of this repeat in history? Nobody better mention Scott Forstall. Still have respect for the guy, but he lacks a lot of things to even be mentioned in the same sentence as Jobs.