Apple CEO Steve Jobs going on medical leave
For the second time in the company’s history, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is going on medical leave. A year and a half ago, Jobs underwent a liver transplant, and recovered from pancreatic cancer in 2004. The company’s most recent earnings report will also be released today. Both announcements come at a time when Apple is facing some of its toughest competition from smaller tech challengers as well as fellow titans like Google. Thus far Steve Jobs has been synonymous with Apple ? an often essential part of the brand. What is the possible future of Apple without Steve Jobs?
We talk about the legacy of Steve Jobs and the future of the world’s most valued technology company with Ken Auletta, author of the Annals of Communications column for The New Yorker Magazine and author of ?Googled: The End of the World as We Know It.? We also talk with Steven Levy, journalist for Wired magazine.
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