“The end of Steve Jobs’ reign as Apple Inc. CEO doesn’t mean he is bowing out as the maestro of personal technology,” Michael Liedtke and Rachel Metz report for The Associated Press.
“True to its tight-lipped style, Apple isn’t spelling out how actively involved Jobs will be as the company’s new chairman while he tends to his own fragile health after surviving pancreatic cancer and a liver transplant during the past seven years,” Liedtke and Metz report. “But longtime Apple watchers have no doubt that Jobs will weigh in on all key decisions and help sculpt the company’s future product line-up.”
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Liedtke and Metz report, “‘I know enough about Steve Jobs to know that as long as he has a breath in him, he will be giving direction at Apple,’ said Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies and the dean of Apple analysts. ‘He is going to remain Apple’s chief visionary.'”
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