With about half of the 400 people who are provided IT by my team using Apple devices, I'm particularly sensitive to all of the news about Steve Jobs' ailing health (see Medical leave for Apple boss Jobs).
The future of Apple as a supplier is one thing (and concerns about the company's imminent demise without Jobs probably over-stated). The challenge ahead is that Apple without Jobs in the past has tended to make, erm, rubbish products. OS 7.5 era (when I was managing about 100 Macs at the London School of Economics) was a deeply, deeply appalling time of ugly beige boxes containing a bug-ridden beige operating system…
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