Apple was able to pull off a lot of its super human, ahem, super company feats based on the immense god-like celebrity aura of Steve Jobs. Superb, frankly ridic

Apple was able to pull off a lot of its super human, ahem, super company feats based on the immense god-like celebrity aura of Steve Jobs. Superb, frankly ridiculous (for the other side), business deals would magically materialize at the man's feet. Authorities would look the other way on arguable topics in favor of Apple, engineers would put in uncounted extra hours for the greater "good", and massive manhunts would take place for a prototype phones at his bidding. Now Apple has to do something it hasn't done in a while - and that is simply to deal with reality. Such is the case when a legend passes.