Steve Jobs – History Moves On

If I would be in Steve Jobs' place, I would simply step up and say "my doctor gave me one more year to live, and my replacement is going to be Mr. X," just to stop all those silly rumors floating around. Of course that this may lead to a little drop of the company's shares, but that's just a thought, since Steve Jobs seems to be OK, but rumors keep popping up here and there...

...and one of the favorite topics in the last few months was "Who can replace Steve Jobs?," with a bunch of people lined up in "waiting lists" already. For example, MacNewsWorld's Troy Wolverton has the following candidates:

• Phil Schiller, 48, Senior vice president, worldwide product marketing
• Tim Cook, 48, Chief operating officer
• Ron Johnson, 50, Senior vice president, retail
• Bill Campbell, 68, Co-lead director at Apple and chairman of Intuit

Fortunately, he's not into rumors, since his article starts by saying that "Gossip and speculation aside, there's no reason to assume Apple CEO Steve Jobs will retire any time soon. But it's inevitable that at some point in the future, he will no longer helm the company he created."

At last, we should also note that Steve Jobs managed to grab an impressive 90 percent approval rating on GlassDoor, a site that lets employees anonymously review their employers and share salary information. This is simply impressive, and it seems the next Apple CEO will have face two major challenges - on the outside, to keep the customers happy, but even harder, he'll have to maintain a good relationship with the company's employees.