[InterceptPoint]

Apple’s innovation and imagination died with Jobs...................

I'm a big Steve Jobs fan so I see your point. And you could be right.

But Jobs came along when we didn't have computers in our homes let alone in our pockets and purses so there was plenty of room for innovation and invention.

But now we do. I have an iPad and an iPhone and a good enough Core i7 based Windows 10 PC. And they all connect to the Internet almost everywhere I go. So right now it is not clear to me why I need to replace any of these nice gadgets. I'm not as interested in going to the Apple Store as I was a few years back. I'm not sure what Steve Jobs would be working on right now that would change that.

But I wish he was still around. Maybe he could lure me back.

[Red Badger]

What Steve Jobs had was foresight. He could think, not only ‘outside the box’, but outside the entire industry to see things that could be but were not yet.

Apple without him at the helm is just another techie company. Unless they continue to create things that never were, they are doomed to be a producer of things that just are...................

[Dr. Sivana]

But Jobs came along when we didn't have computers in our homes let alone in our pockets and purses so there was plenty of room for innovation and invention.

But now we do.

Ahh, but we have the long interregnum between Sculley ousting Jobs, wandering in the desert with Amelio and Spindler, with the Macintosh down to 1-2% of marketshare, largely from loyalist from the Jobs era. When Jobs came back, the magic was back with the iMac, new OSes, and the iPod/iPhone/iPad came later and fed off of that. Mac itself was up to 10% and occasionally was the number 1 seller of desktops and laptops. We already knew what a computer was when Jobs exited the first time.

[aquila48]

Jobs dared imagine what most other people never dreamed and had the will and determination to make it real.

The new Steve Jobs is Elon Musk. Except that Musk dreams even bigger things and is just as determined.