The thing that confuses me about this kind of article, and I've seen a good few in the months since Jobs died, is the misconception people have on the lead time

The thing that confuses me about this kind of article, and I've seen a good few in the months since Jobs died, is the misconception people have on the lead times of product development. Whether the new iPhone sucks or rocks will have been mostly under Jobs leadership. He's not been dead a year yet. Lead time for product development is a tad longer than that. We've not seen the post-Jobs Apple yet.