It is now about 30 minutes after this broke, there are 10 articles about it posted to Hacker News. My take is that it will have a good couple of days of news c

It is now about 30 minutes after this broke, there are 10 articles about it posted to Hacker News. My take is that it will have a good couple of days of news cycle, but ultimately isn't that important to anyone but Steve Jobs, his family, and friends.[1] The key of Jobs at Apple is that he demonstrated a "different way". The Scully years were about performing business: perform incremental improvement, manage costs, and earn a return on investment. The return of Jobs was the proposition that the company could [also|instead] succeed by fostering a reputation for quality of user experience and changing the product landscape to make new opportunities[2]. That proposition is now proven, there is a generation of leaders (and lead) in the company that know this and believe it. They should get along just fine. What they will lose is the "star power" of Jobs and all the easy copy that media companies could generate based on that. That will hurt, less media coverage is not good, particularly since Apple is going to suffer though a massive salvo of easy FUD articles. [1] if he has a family, he may just have an antiseptic white ceramic dwelling staffed by obedient Eve clones for all I know. [2] also, break some eggs if you are making an omelette.