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Steve Jobs' new job: Digital Nomad In Chief
8 comments- TAGS:Apple, digital nomad, iPhone, Jobs, netbook
- IT TOPICS:Mobile & Wireless
The Wall Street Journal today shed some light, and some informed rumor, on the new life of Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO now on medical leave.
Jobs is reportedly working on "the development of future products," according to the paper, including "new iPhone models and a portable device that is smaller than its current laptop computers but bigger than the iPhone or iPod Touch." That second device would be the Apple Netbook I wrote about here and here.
Here's the other relevant bit: Jobs is working from home.
Let's put this all in perspective: Steve Jobs is working on digital nomad-oriented products, while himself living as a digital nomad -- a telecommuter if not an "extreme telecommuter."
Unlike the process at most companies, where there are always too many cooks in the kitchen that tinker products into mediocrity, the Apple process is different. At Apple, a very small number of designers identify the core look, feel and functionality of a product, then Steve Jobs personally protects that vision through the usual design-by-committee process that ruins other products.
I believe that Jobs' new digital nomad lifestyle can only sharpen and clarify his vision for what Apple's future mobile products should be, and result in some really great products.
Steve Jobs' may return to Apple as full-time CEO, and I hope he does. But in the meantime, he's the Digital Nomad In Chief, working from home and helping to forge Apple's next vision for mobile computing.
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