If this is true, then we will likely hear how he is leaving a team of experienced and visionary designers behind. We might even hear that he has not been the lead designer on any product for a few years now.
But let's all just be clear: in the same way that Tim Cook is a good CEO, he is not the legendary CEO Steve Jobs. This will be true of anyone else who replaced Ive.
Every team has a period of perfection and brilliance and this would truly mark the end of Apple's. They will be good, but they won't be Jobs, Ive and Mansfield amazing! I should include Forstall in there too, because under Jobs he was great!
Does anyone else feel that Cook doesn't inspire the same loyalty and dedication amongst his team? I like the new guys, but they hardly come across as fantatically faithfull....more talented career men!!