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Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO (Official Letter)

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Re: Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO (Official Letter)

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I'll be interested to see if 10 years from now Apple has stayed true in hardware quality or if they sink to EMachines-like quality levels.

It's true that the first time Steve Jobs left Apple, it didn't take long for things to go badly for the company, but I feel that this time around (that is, since 1997 when he came back as CEO), Steve Jobs surrounded himself with a great team, making sure that this wouldn't happen again. The fact that Tim Cook is taking over is a good example of that: someone from inside Apple who has been around and key to Apple's su…

Things were going downhill before Steve left the first time. This is a very different scenario where they're at the top of their game.
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