“Walt Disney is now searching for a successor to CEO Michael Eisner, and its directors couldn’t do better than to go all out to tap Steve Jobs, cofounder and CEO of Apple Computer and CEO of Pixar. Jobs knows high tech, Hollywood and finances as few Hollywood moguls do, and he knows the critical importance of creativity. Jobs’ understanding of technology would be crucial. The music industry hurt itself for years by making it impossible to download music legally off the Web. Apple’s iTunes service was the right response. Jobs understands that when we get true broadband in this country, the Internet will radically change radio and TV broadcasting, just as it’s already changing telephony and the distribution of music and videos,” Steve Forbes writes for Forbes.com.

“What about Apple Computer? Despite last summer’s cancer surgery (a success), Jobs remains enormously creative and energetic. He could still head Disney and be, as he is now, Apple’s guiding spirit. Walt Disney himself was an artistic genius. The Disney company needs that kind of vision again. Steve Jobs can provide it,” Forbes writes.

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