Cringely: Steve Jobs could die tomorrow and Apple would be fine – maybe even better

“I knew things were bad when Steve Jobs didn’t make even a token video appearance at Macworld. He would have done it, I’m sure, had he been well enough. Maybe someone at Apple, weeks before, thought of suggesting such a video, but of course to do so then would have been committing career suicide even if in retrospect it would have been a good idea,” Robert X. Cringely writes for I, Cringely. “So now Steve is off on his six month (or longer) medical leave, readjusting those hormones, and the press is abuzz with what the heck Apple will do without Steve.”

Cringely writes, “Apple will be fine.”

“Steve Jobs is an amazing chief executive, clearly the best of his era, but that doesn’t make him irreplaceable. True, he saved Apple, but now Apple is saved. The company is rich, has growing market share and a mindshare dominance envied throughout the computer AND music AND video industries,” Cringely writes. “Steve could die tomorrow and Apple would be fine for years to come. Apple might even be better.”

Full article here.

Blunt, but true (the “fine” part, that is; we’re not at all sure about the “might even be better” idea).

Regardless, get well soon, Steve!