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| Hi,
though Apple is a very difficult company to like with Steve Jobs at it's helm, I wish a good recovery and for whatever time he has left to live the best quality life as possible.
However, irrelevant of how serious his condition is now it is clear that time that Apple looks for a successor. Without him there, it will be possible for Apple to undo a lot of the damage it his done to it's reputation with this walled garden approach/Steve knows better than you approach. The next few years will be challenge for Apple as Android looks like it will win the majority of the smartphone and probably slate market. Apple has been very good at building very strong marketing around devices that are evolutionary extensions of ideas from other companies but are pitched in such a way to look "revolutionary".
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I have no idea what damage to Apple's reputation you could be referring to. Whatever it might be, Steve ought to keep damaging it as it does wonders for the brand, product development and share prices.
When Apple has tried to go without Steve in the past, it floundered. Product development came out with bombs, and manufacturing could not produce enough or produced too much. Its shares went down to about $15. Others CEOs tried to run Apple like Pepsi, or Disney, and it just did not work.
It is said that Steve has a reality vortex. He comes into processes with incredible demands and ideas, irritating the more process oriented thinkers, and somehow always manages to pull through what he insists on. To me, that means results. Without someone with that level of drive, strength and authority at Apple, we will likely see Apple turn into yet another dinosaur corporation.
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