Stan Sigman says sayonara
Stan Sigman, the AT&T Wireless CEO who famously took the stage with Steve Jobs to introduce the iPhone back in January is stepping down. Sigman is perhaps best remembered by Apple fans as completely negating Jobs’s Reality Distortion Field in an incident which left almost half of the entire keynote audience sound asleep. He has been sentenced to a cruel afterlife of being the butt of roughly ninety-nine percent of Scott Bourne’s jokes.
We kid because we love, Stan—well, honestly, because we love to kid. Sigman spent an astounding 42 years with AT&T, rising from a lowly stockman to CEO of their wireless division. He’ll be succeeded in the job by Ralph de la Vega, who we hear intends to upstage his predecessors performance with a rousing juggling performance at next year’s Macworld, should he be allowed to appear with Jobs. And what will Stan do in retirement? Word is he’s thinking of giving public speaking workshops to underprivileged youth. Stan, take it easy: you’ve done enough.
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Comments (1)
If I'm not mistaken, Ralph de la Vega was the one who came on stage at a special event to talk about the other iPhone: the ROKR. Ah, those were the good old times...
Posted by Thomas GvL
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October 12, 2007 4:43 PM