“”Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said the time to judge Apple Inc. management will be in two years because the next five to six quarters will be mainly the influence of founder Steve Jobs,” Dakin Campbell reports for Bloomberg. “‘The strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that’s clearly moving on all cylinders and clicking very well,’ Alwaleed, 56, who owns Apple shares, said in an interview airing today on public television’s ‘Charlie Rose’ program. ‘For the next five, six quarters, this will be still the legacy of Steve Jobs. I think maybe two years from now, we will see what happens with the new management.’”

Campbell reports, “Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Cupertino, California- based Apple, hasn’t signaled any major departures from the strategy laid out by Jobs, who died in October. The company last month reported the best quarter in its history, with profit doubling to $13.1 billion on record sales of the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers.”

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