It’s going to be interesting seeing all those who claimed (and there were and are many, many of them) that Steve Jobs had absolutely nothing to do with Apple’s rejuvenation and success flail, stumble and mumble idiocies when Apple starts to flag as it inevitably will sans Jobs.

I don’t mean it will go bankrupt, or even stop making large profits. I mean it will likely go from the most amazing company perhaps ever to exist, to a regular ol’ company that occasionally makes some cool things.

Only complete fools can believe that Jobs had nothing to do with Apple’s success. Not only did Jobs sit personally in nearly every important design meeting, mostly vetoing bad ideas left and right*, but his entire ethos pervaded the workings of Apple.

Jobs had a mind that was almost magical in its ability to meld the just-barely-realizable with something that is capable of being manufactured combined with giving people something they deeply desired but did not even know they wanted until they saw it.

That’s not one in a million. That’s maybe one in a billion.

*Perhaps the most important thing anyone can do in a large company.