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The ipad is in its first version. It will improve and, presumably, sell better on the back of that.

The guy's lugging around a kindle, an ipad, and a laptop. Someone (Apple?) is going to make money consolidating all of that into a single device while attending properly to the associated user interface issues.

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What will happen when Steve Jobs' health declines, or when the stock market start to believe Steve Jobs' health would decline?

I am not sure if you can ever find a replacement for Apple's CEO....

"The analysis was therefore based only on the 3,673 adult recipients [of liver transplants] for whom the 15 year patient survival rate was 58%" https://www.uktransplant.org.uk/ukt/statistics/presentations...

Enough with the "Oh gosh, Steve Jobs is not going to live forever! Run for the hills!" quiet (and sometimes not so quiet) hysteria.

Whenever Steve Jobs stops working for Apple, for whatever reason, there will certainly be a drop in Apple's stock. And then after a couple of quarters people will see that the company is performing just as greatly as it has been before Jobs' leave, and things will get back to normal. If you don't feel like weathering such turbulence sell your Apple stock right now and enjoy the ROI.

I do think that there probably isn't anther Steve Jobs out there, but I disagree that there aren't people, who can be great next CEO of Apple. In fact I think there are plenty such people at Apple.

Hopefully that's the case :) I've never bought any Apple stocks but the only computers I've ever owned are all macs. Looking forward to more brilliantly designed products.

You had to jinx it ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2112128 ), hadn't you. :)

I'm almost like you - I haven't been exclusively a Mac user, but I've always had and used one Mac or another ever since the Mac SE. And I'm fairly confident that Apple will continue delivering products we'll enjoy. I'm confident because of one of Jobs' most overlooked qualities - his ability to find and attract to his company people that can create great stuff.

One can assume that the chances for Steve Jobs are better then for the general public. As bad as it is, but more money buys better doctors and better care.

It depends how you want to think about Apple, I would think. If you think about Apple from a Wall Street perspective then losing Jobs would be profound. From a product perspective, I don't think it will have as big an impact. There is so much room to grow with iPhone and iPad now and it seems that the Jobs "aura" is pretty strong. I hope they would elevate a product person to the top spot instead of a manager. Maybe Ives.

Having worked at Apple for a large chunk of the last decade, I'm not sure that Steve Jobs is necessarily all that integral to their continued success. Certainly, Apple will never be without Steve what they can be with him, but my interactions with Tim Cook, Ron Johnson, and a handful of others lead me to think Apple will be in very good hands once Steve's out of the picture. Apple-without-Steve will very likely still be head-and-shoulders above everyone else in the industry.

It's not about one man. It's about the culture.

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