Schiller-Mania!

CNN Money has a nice interview with Steve Jobs in relation to Fortune Magazine having named Apple the Most Admired Company of 2008. The fifth topic in this interview is on the question of who would take over after Steve.

Obviously we think Phil is the most likely exec to inherit the throne. He’s certainly earned it and has the most MacWorld experience. Tim Cook is a wily and talented charmer, but his wizardry lies in operations and not the public persona nor product design areas. Joswiak is nothing but a yes man, Bertrand way too crazy-eyed, Ives too private. Retail Veep Ron Johnson is actually probably the best man for the job, but it might be nice to just seem them all share power post-Jobs in acknowledgement that no one man could fill those shoes. I don’t think any outsiders would stand a chance at the top in a company like this one.

There’s been much brouhaha over the guy (Bob Keefe) who asked Steve Jobs why Apple doesn’t put Intel Inside stickers on Macs, but here’s what Phil had to say on the matter:

“It’s not just about Intel Inside. When you buy any off the shelf PCs, the boxes are covered with confusing logos, and messages, and icons. You open it up: there’s stickers to peel off displays and keyboards; they’re all over the place. And then you start it up and you find junkware all over your desktop and in your menus that they’ve littered with it trying to up sell you on junk and that whole philosphy: we try to just give you a great product that you’ll love and you don’t have to peel stuff off to make it look better.”

Link to audio of the question and answer on MacWorld.