the mouse was about user friendly. that was the beginning. what happens next? you are steve jobs. you have these issues that you have to deal with. has he not prepared a succession tree within the company? there are brilliant people there. apple is an extraordinary company. tens of thousands of employees around the world. the company will be fine for six months to a year. i think the issue is that right now we re just seeing an incredibly tumultuous time in technology media. telecommunication industries are colliding. nobody has steered the ship better than steve jobs through that and that product sense is critical. the real question is if steve leaves, is there somebody else who can steer with that sense of vision through this. he approved every product. there needs to be that person next in life who can do what he did. he reinvented the company every time a product ran its course and would come out with another one. think about ibm which was main