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I agree, it's written as if the iPhone 4S was developed since Steve left, when in reality he would have been a major cog in the device. Tim Cook has done so much, he was CEO of Apple while steve was away before and the company was fine. Releasing some of their best products with some of the best sales. He changed the supply chain which is one reason the iPad has been so successful as they can build a high quality product at a price the competition can't beat.

Jonny Ive especially shows how important each member of the team was at Apple, steve jobs helped put in place this vision with Tim Cook will instill for years to come.

I find it slightly disrespectful to him that they would post this hours after his death was announced.

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Lets face it Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs when it comes to presenting. How do you explain Apple's dip between 1986 to 1996 which coincided with Steve absence?

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That's a bad example, they had a bad leader and didn't believe in Steve so completely changed Apple's model, structure and vision. This time it's totally different, Tim Cook has been at the forefront in the last few years, without him the iPad especially (Looks like it could be their most popular product ever, eventually) was all thanks to his deals.

Steve put an amazing team around him like Jonny Ive, it's a very different situation not to then. The company was already on the rocks then, today it's not.