The way Wall Street reacted to recent rumors about Steve Jobs and whether or not he’s seriously ill certainly mirrors the common perception that the company he co-founded can’t possibly succeed without him.
I can surely understand the reason for this common conception, since we all know how bad things were at Apple in the 1990s [...]

Months before the iPhone debuted, Apple was being asked over and over again about the prospects for running third party software on it. But a short time before the hot-selling gadget shipped, Steve Jobs was saying that Apple hadn’t decided how to handle development for the iPhone yet, but that a workable solution might come [...]

In keeping with predictions from the Mac rumor sites, Apple finally delivered its first Mac upgrade for 2007, a minor speed bump and feature enhancement for the best-selling MacBook line.
To be sure, the improvements, through modest, were nonetheless welcome. For example, processor speed is now boosted to 2GHz and 2.16GHz, hard drives are beefier and [...]