“But with Jobs gone and Cook now in charge, industry watchers have questioned whether Apple should expand its board and change its approach.”

AppleInsider | Apple Board of Directors at ‘crossroads’ after death of Steve Jobs.

So let’s get this right. Days after the change of leadership it’s time to change the way that the company is run.

Here’s my view of this.

Apple has close on $100 bln in cash. The banks want that money; and they’ve already started trying to get it. So wait for loads of articles about how Apple needs to change and look like other companies. The very same companies that have failed to match Apple for the last decade.

What will they do to get it? They’d kill the goose that laid the golden egg!

I’m repeatedly told that Apple only sells so well because of their marketing. Their success is all because of the ads.

I still disagree, I believe it’s because of the way the product feels…

“It didn’t take me long to realize that after using the smooth, polished iPhone 4S that Android just feels wrong.”

After the iPhone 4S, Android just feels wrong | ZDNet.

“It’s hard to remember the pre-iPod Apple.”

Daring Fireball Linked List: Ten Years Ago Today: iPod

Actually, I find it difficult to remember a pre-iPod world. Did we really walk around with tapes in boxes?