[amrrs]

Yes, Because Steve Jobs is akin to Jeff Bezos, can run a company focusing on consumer needs rather than lust for wall street. While Tim Cook's job is running the company from Front while also giving hope the shareholders much of what Ballmer Schmidt did.

Maybe this is high time for us to get over this thought, Oh Steve wouldn't have done that. In fact, Steve launched the iPod with a scrolling ball.

Steve launched an iPhone with antennagate.

Steve launched Newton.

Steve, with all due respect, had made his share of mistakes too. He's with no doubt a good product visionary, but Tim Cook's objective isn't to be Steve but to be Apple CEO.

[alwillis]

In fact, Steve launched the iPod with a scrolling ball.

It was a click wheel, not a scrolling ball. Even now, the click-wheel would be a good UX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_click_wheel

Steve launched Newton.

Come on now--Steve was at NeXT when the Newton was released. John Sculley launched the Newton.

Steve launched an iPhone with antennagate.

As Apple and Steve demonstrated, most smartphones at that time did the same thing as the iPhone 4; the only difference was it was Apple and not Nokia or Blackberry. And also because Steve was pretty blunt about his feelings and didn't do the corporate CEO thing any other Fortune 500 CEO would have done--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IorfYuF4gMM

[CodeWriter23]

The click wheel came at v2 or v3. The original had a scroll wheel which actually spun, with buttons around the perimeter.

[Semiapies]

The click-wheel was great. I miss having such a simple, haptic interface.

[tapoxi]

Steve didn't launch Newton, it came out in '93. He did kill it though.