Mike_Rupp said:
I don't think you'll see any short term stock drop as a result of Jobs' death. It hasn't been a secret that he was very ill and his illness had been factored into the price for a while.
The issue is the long-term outlook of the company. Steve Jobs was a brilliant designer as well as being a completely intense CEO. It is hard to imagine that Apple will be able to have the kind of vision that Steve Jobs had.
I've often wondered just how it is that some folks can take an idea and convince folks to follow so blindly that they'll put up with assholery of a "genius".
I don't know that I've ever read anything nice about Steve Jobs as a human being, it's almost always negative.
I've known some presidents/CEOs of fairly large companies. Those with the lowest AQ (Asshole Quotient) seemed to be the ones who got the most done and inspired the greatest loyalty. I see it in my clients as well, there are some who think because they are wealthy, they can be inhuman and inhumane, yet, there are some who are really cool and it makes one hope for such good fortune. I had to fire a guy a few weeks ago because of his AQ being WAY too high.