Jony Ive is still there right? Look at how he's progressed from the toilet seat portable, to the Pismos, to the Luxo iMac, to the white iMac, to the unibodies.
Sure Steve was there, praising and berating, but I doubt Steve himself would have come up with even this aluminum slab keyboard I'm typing on right now, though I'm sure he loved it when Ive and his team brought it in.
Apple has likely had long enough to assemble people that share the vision, that Apple design should evolve towards ever greater things. The iPhone was a huge lesson, that even now, and it's always now, there's room to shake something up with better design, vision and software.
Sure Steve was there, praising and berating, but I doubt Steve himself would have come up with even this aluminum slab keyboard I'm typing on right now, though I'm sure he loved it when Ive and his team brought it in.
Apple has likely had long enough to assemble people that share the vision, that Apple design should evolve towards ever greater things. The iPhone was a huge lesson, that even now, and it's always now, there's room to shake something up with better design, vision and software.