There are bad and good stories about Steve Jobs that span his lifetime but we don't really consider how he changed over the years.
He admitted that he made plenty of mistakes and changed his mind often.
He hired superb people as his execs and the successful ones stay or return for long periods, much higher than the silicon valley average.
I think his greatest decisions were to allow Jonny Ive to really hone the product design craft, to be part of the process and to give freedom to Tim Cook when he first joined Apple.
However, Apple now seems more balanced with Tim Cook, who seems to be almost the mirror image of Steve Jobs. Tim has done to management what Steve did to products. If Steve let the managers manage then Tim seems to let the producers produce.
I'd love to see Tim demo a product he users day to day not as the CEO but as a user. Apparently he really likes to use the AppleTV daily so I hope to see him demo the new system.
