“Is there a silver lining in Steve Jobs’ leave of absence for Apple investors? His co-founder Steve Wozniak sees one. I just left the set of a new tech show produced by our local NBC affiliate, and as coincidence would have it, ‘Woz’ and I were both guests. Wozniak said that when most creative types take a time out, they tend to have a flood of ideas. After all, it was after Jobs’ last leave from the company that we got the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, and an entirely new Apple,” Sarah Lacy reports for Yahoo Finance.
“Wozniak was clear to say he hadn’t talked to Jobs recently, and expressed some frustration at the amount of ink and airtime that had gone into discussing Jobs’ health. He added that some of the alarm was overstated, given how large of a pipeline of products a company like Apple has and how long they take to get to market,” Lacy reports.
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