In its edition of December 8, the economic newspaper Les Echos starts again the debate on the health of Steve Jobs. If though the article avoids the voyeurism that we have already seen on the web, it questions the capacity of Apple to continue without its charismatic chief and takes stock of 3 potential successors, Tim Cook, Jonathan Ive and Scot Forstall.
There is nothing new, this subject largely having already been treated during these last months.
The breaking news which we succeeded in obtaining, it goes as well as possible even if his daily life is far from easy. The true risk; is not that something will happen to him, but rather the consequences of his operations give him the desire for retreating more and more from public life. He will gradually yield the reins of power to his lieutenants while keeping a critical eye on their work. But this transition largely begun some years back.
[translation by crispin]
