Sorry, but I think you're just not getting it. A brilliant visionary with the personality and presence to effect change rarely comes along. Steve was unique. Yes, those other people you mention are talented, but there are plenty of talented people at many, many companies, yet none accomplished what Apple did under Steve. You ask if Steve was the innovator of everything at Apple. He wasn't. He was the visionary who looked at thousands of innovations and intuitively knew which ones mattered, which ones needed to be integrated, and which ones needed to die. And he had the ego, the confidence, and the passion to state these things unequivocally. Personally, I thought it would take longer for Apple to start making missteps. Unfortunately, the lack of vision is already apparent. The new awkwarly skinny and inordinately light iPhone, the iMac that answered a question no one asked - Why don't we make our desktop monitors super thin?!, the overpriced and under-speced iPad mini. In general, it is obvious that Apple has now settled into evolution, rather than revolution. And that's really all they can do. Without Steve, they are just another business with good engineering talent and saavy business leaders. They aren't going away, they aren't losing relevence....they just won't soar beyond expectations anymore.