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Business Daily: Will Apple lose its bite?

Will Apple lose its bite?

25/08/2011

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Will Apple lose its bite?

As Steve Jobs steps down as CEO what's the future for Apple? And is Opec's power waning?

As Steve Jobs steps down as chief executive what is the future for Apple? And is Opec the force it once was? Plus, fancy some lunch? Can eating insects save the world from hunger?

As Steve Jobs resigns as chief executive of Apple, the computer giant he founded back in 1976, we ask how the company will survive without its guiding inspiration.

Jobs has had a turbulent relationship with his company, yet is reckoned to have been behind most of its key developments - the iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPhone and now the iPad.  

Justin Rowlatt interviews the BBC World Service Technology Correspondent Mark Gregory about what has made Steve Jobs such an inspirational leader and what next for what became, albeit rather briefly, the biggest company on earth.

Plus we will be looking at the waning power of Opec. Forty years ago the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries was the bogeyman of the west - reckoned to be so powerful it could bring the world economy to its knees. It is not so frightening now.  

As the Libyan conflict draws to a close Justin Rowlatt discusses the future for Opec with two key oil analysts Dr John Sfakianakis, the chief economist at Banque Saudi Fransi and Dr Mamdouh Salameh, a consultant to the World Bank.

And finally, The human population is expected to pass another milestone in a few weeks - topping seven billion.  Once again there is widespread speculation about how all these souls will be fed, especially as the UN reckons a billion people already suffer chronic hunger.  

So how about entomophagy? A word almost as unpleasant many people would find the practice it describes: eating insects.

In the West eating insects is generally considered disgusting but they are a popular source of protein in many other societies and, in terms of food and farming, insects have a lot going for them.  

Insects are far better than the usual food staples - cows, pigs and chickens - at converting feed into meat and are ideal for farming: insects just love filthy, crowded conditions.  

A few months ago these arguments prompted one UN advisor to suggest that we all need to learn to suppress our gag instinct and eat more insects. Justin Rowlatt did just that and visited Archipelago, a London restaurant specialising in exotic food, where head chef Daniel Creedon serves his customers insects every day.

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