Yukari Iwatani Kane, writing for The Wall Street Journal, brings us word that Apple is hiring Joel Podolny, the Dean of Yale University’s Business School, to serve as the Vice President and Dean of Apple University.
Yes, you read that right and no, it isn’t the first of April. Apparently, there’s an Apple University in the works. Much like the iTunes Store, which served as a vehicle to move more iPods, maybe Apple has gotten tired of going after the education market in order to sell Macs to students and now plans to do some homeschooling of its own, so to speak.
Or, perhaps more logically, they’re taking a cue from Pixar University, which is a program that Pixar offers to new and existing animators on the company’s payroll to brush up on their skills. I can almost picture it: a huge room equipped with a conveyor belt dishing out stacks of black mock turtlenecks, with thousands of kids milling about in the familiar uniform.
Whatever the case, I think it’s safe to assume that Steve Jobs has found an innovative way to prepare a successor for himself—start from childhood, train him to live life exactly like the Apple CEO and mould him into his own image. My, who’d have thunk it?
Disclaimer: 90% of this post is pure speculation and views expressed by the author of this piece are entirely his own. We’re not even sure how this thing got published. Rest assured that at least the first paragraph is actual, real news.
[Via Daring Fireball]
