How about cloud-based services? Apple has indicated their interest in this direction by plunking down a gigantic data center in North Carolina. And they have

How about cloud-based services? Apple has indicated their interest in this direction by plunking down a gigantic data center in North Carolina. And they have demonstrated their skills, judgement, and foresight at creating hosted services and platforms with iTunes and the App Store(s). Worlds to conquer need not be new hardware segments. If you posit that mobile devices are the end of the line of hardware innovation, then just imagine all the new software and connected intelligence that can be created for these devices. I, for one, would welcome Jobs' continued contributions to the future of these technological domains. I really don't see a drop-in replacement for him.