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Originally Posted by Harmon
I think you might be wrong about Apple not being the same. Reason being that I think that Jobs has successfully incubated a particular business culture at Apple which will define that company for a long long time.
My guess is that Jobs has laid out a blueprint for Apple's continued success extending at least a decade into the future. All systems tend toward entropy, of course, but 68 billion in cash reserves will sustain a lot of entropy.
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Apple will be ok for a year or two, but besides being the CEO, he was a micro manager who was approving, rejecting, or pushing some of the Projects that we know now as iPad, iPod, etc.
The current CEO probably will have the skills, but the innovation ideas or the charisma, cannot or won't be replaced.
The impact, if one, will be noticed in one or two years, assuming he's really ill or not coming back.