Follow up to last question - as a business, can Apple still remain competitive with Jobs's leadership?

readytoretire answered 10 months ago …

I think so. With 32,000 employees, he obviously can't be doing it all. He has done an admirable job of coming up with new electronic gadgets that we all seem to need. Don't know if he came up with them or fostered the environment that they could come to the top. Either way, the result is that Apple has products that will drive the company revenue for several years at least. If Jobs doesn't come back, they will need to talk about some new product to keep the media from saying they are done for and causing people to start going away from their products, which command a brand name premium. The media has attached so much importance on him, that Apple could easily suffer due to it, regardless of whether it is real or not.