It will be interesting to see the longer term "next big thing" from Apple. The Iphone will continue to get marginally better and keep up with the pack in the smartphone world. Ipad, same thing, it will get updates with probably things like 3D in a few years etc, but what's the next big idea for 5-10 years down the the road that Jobs had in his mind to be the next game changer?
I am sure Jobs did a brain dump of his ideas and patent worthy inventions that may provide a basis for Apple to continue to grow in the short term over the past years since his sickness, but will his more innovative and borderline whacky ideas (for 2011) (as I am sure out of every 10 brilliant ones he had, like most inventors, 2 or 3 saw the light of day, at most) and thoughts come to life? With someone else having to move them from "on a napkin" idea stage into implementation stage, and given Jobs' sense for timing and what the market is ready for, and the need to presented/sold in such a way that the are picked up and R&D poured into to make them a reality, is hard to visualize that happening with him not at the controls to push it through and get all the details in an OCD manner as he seemed to go about in his work.
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