Steve Jobs may have had it right several years ago when he decided to think different during a glorious one finger salute standing outside of the IBM building in downtown Manhattan, posing for a very relevant photo in light Apple's recent staffing battle with the world’s most established technology giant.
IBM and Apple are currently locked in a heated battle over the hiring of IBM's Mark Papermaster yanked from IBM to replace longtime iPod Chief Tony Fadell as senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering at Apple. A District Court judge in White Plains, N.Y., has ordered former IBM executive Mark Papermaster to immediately cease working for Apple, Inc. All of this drama because of the possible violation of a non-compete agreement Papermaster has with IBM, preventing him from working for a competitor for the period of one year. Papermaster has asserted that IBM and Apple are in very different businesses. [link]
The IBM empire must be stopped from holding potential Apple staffers hostage! The fate of future iPod development may hang in the balance. It would be so timely for that young, brazen Steve Jobs to travel through a time portal to current day in order to flip IBM the same meaningful message he did back in the day. It would be epic watching history repeat itself! I could see that photo landing on the front page of every major publication across the globe. An extremely bold task that the current day Jobs may not be willing to undertake as Apple's revered CEO. Or would he?
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