Steve Jobs' greatest designs
????"Apple does not create products on a quarter by quarter basis," said Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, who has followed Apple for more than three decades. "It has products in development through 2013 and a roadmap through 2015. Everything that is in the works for the next five years has Steve's imprint and blessing."
????And while it is impossible to overstate the influence of Jobs, Apple is not a one-man operation. The company has a deep bench of seasoned executives, who have absorbed Jobs's vision and direction. They include Philip W. Schiller, the company's marketing chief; Jonathan Ive, the London-born designer who is Apple's senior vice president for industrial design; and Scott Forstall, a senior vice president for iOS software.
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????Without Jobs in the mix, you can expect Cook to rely more heavily on them.
????Apple's succession plans have been a closely guarded secret. Still everyone from Silicon Valley to Wall Street had expected that Cook would eventually replace Jobs. Now we know. And it seems clearer than ever that Jobs had planned for this day -- and for his gradual exit from Apple -- with the same care and precision he applied to the release of a new product or one of his keynote speeches.
