In my view, Apple has attained its enviable status and market position, based on the single minded pursuit by its people to delight their customers with innovative products.
While its true Steve is the one who originally infused the above flavor into Apple, the people at Apple are smart and savvy enough to have learned from their fearless leader; to not only carry forward, but even grow the above recipe. After all, if this was not to be the case, our human civilization couldn’t have evolved and advanced over the centuries!

Cheers,
-v

Interested in reading an interview I did a few days ago at Apple?

http://www.applegameshop.com/2009/01/secret-interview-with-apple-part-two.html

Steve

Similarly, the design of the products was never really up to Jobs. It’s not like he sat in the lab pulling long hours designing stuff. Apple will continue to have good products because the people that actually design them are still healthy and working hard at Cupertino. My understanding is that Jobs’ role in product design is only as a taste arbiter. Jobs, Ive, and Schiller typically would meet and examine up and coming products and give their feedback, but this also happens at many other levels before it reaches them. Jobs does have extraordinary taste and an instinctive feel for what’s right or wrong with a design, but others do as well.