The departure of Steve Jobs from the management of Apple left many question marks regarding the future of the company, the future of its management and the future of the products to be launched. In just 2 days it will be one year since the death of the late CEO of the Apple company and for now there has only been evolution in his wake, only products that have had enormous success and only growth in terms of profit and share price. Among the employees there was distrust in the management's ability to keep the company on a straight path, in its ability to maintain the culture installed by Jobs, and the changes made after his departure relaxed the employees, the company and finally the world is satisfied.
There's also more office politics and some concern that Jobs's departure and the arrival of thousands of new employees will dilute the culture. Nevertheless, the company is happier and even somewhat more transparent than it was during Jobs' tenure, these insiders say. There are fewer frantic calls at midnight, and there's less implicit pressure on engineers to cut short or cancel vacations in the heat of product development cycles. No one would say Apple is better off without Steve Jobs. But to a surprising degree, it's doing fine... Much about the company's direction and even its products still reflects Jobs's decisions and design preferences—the iPhone 5 was the last model to receive detailed input from Jobs, say two people familiar with the phone's development.
If Jobs had not left, then the employees would still have short vacations, long nights at the office and Google Search would probably have disappeared from iOS. The former CEO hated Google so much that at one point he wanted to remove Google Search from iOS, after what decided to give up Google Maps, but users stopped it. The fear that users would not accept such a measure tempered Jobs, Google Search still remains a predefined search engine in iOS, but who knows how long this will last?
At the time of his death, Jobs had come to loathe Google, which he felt was copying features of the iPhone while withholding a key feature of Google Maps that allows smartphones to dictate turn-by-turn directions aloud. Jobs also discussed pulling Google search from the iPhone, but figured that customers would reject that move, according to two former Apple executives.
Finally, I will tell you about Bob Mansfield, the person who oversaw the development of the hardware in the last iDevices of the Apple company, the person who decided to leave the company a few months ago, but was convinced to remain under the command of Tim Cook. Cook's decision was made after several senior engineers of the company complained that Dan Riccio, his replacement, was not prepared to take on such a position and probably the word resignation it was said several times. In order not to lose important people for the company, Cook made the decision to offer Mansfield shares and a monthly salary of 2 million dollars and a substantial new stock package, and this will ensure that future Apple products will have good hardware .
According to three people familiar with the sequence of events, several senior engineers on Mansfield's team vociferously complained to Cook about reporting to his replacement, Dan Riccio, who they felt was unprepared for the magnitude of the role. In response, Cook approached Mansfield and offered him an exorbitant package of cash and stock worth around $2 million a month to stay on at Apple as an adviser and help manage the hardware engineering team.
