Is this the final piece in the soft PR work rattling through "journalism" this week? Daring Fireball did a piece not wholly unlike this as well. The timing is a

Is this the final piece in the soft PR work rattling through "journalism" this week? Daring Fireball did a piece not wholly unlike this as well. The timing is a bit odd for there to be this meta discussion that is pivoting Cook and Apple from the post-Jobsian "rudderlessness" to a New-New-Apple Cookian era that is both highly positive and would have been, to paraphrase, impossible with Jobs at the helm. I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.