“It’s too early to tell how this will really play out,” said David Wertheimer of the University of Southern California, who worked with Jobs at NeXT computers after Jobs was ousted from Apple in the 1980s. “If this is Steve Jobs stepping out of an operational role at the company so he can focus more on product development and vision-setting, this could be not that big a change.

“On the other hand,” he said in an email, “if this is Steve Jobs fading into the sunset, the company will have a major product vision deficit, and that will be a huge deal.”

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