Imagine Apple with an MBA at top, no Steve Jobs

Imagine Apple with an MBA at top, no Steve Jobs
"OK, hear me out on another idea," the Apple engineer pleads. "A slate or tablet form factor.10-inch diagonal.Very light, very portable.Under 1.5 pounds. Runs essentially the same OS as a smartphone." Chainsaw Al: "Hold it. Stop. I've heard enough.10 inches but no physical keyboard? What would anyone use it for? Just buy a laptop.And we already make those.And I suppose you'd want to make that out of aluminum too with almost no ports.What rock did you crawl out from under? Where's your cost argument?Didn't you get the memo?" Maybe slightly overdramatized, but you get the point.Luckily, there are other Silicon Valley companies that match Apple in engineering-driven design and long-term outlook.One would be Intel.And Intel does Apple one better by making stuff in the U.S. (via multibillion dollar investments in its U.S. chip plants). Apple, on the other hand, farms out manufacturing to companies in Asia like Foxconn (iPad, iPhone) and Samsung (A5 processor). But I digress.The fact is that Apple makes well-engineered products that are very different from what other computer/electronics companies make.And you will find few, if any, companies in Silicon Valley or the U.S auto industry that exceed the threshold of greatness with a Chainsaw Al at the helm.