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Jobs still said to be running the show
Steve Jobs has been away from Apple's Cupertino campus since January, but that hasn't kept him from keeping a pretty steady grip on the goings-on down at Infinite Loop.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Jobs has kept the reins of the company while working from home and recovering from what is only being termed a "hormonal imbalance." And Steve is said to be heavily involved in the development of Apple's mystery netbook/tablet project.
While it is a welcome bit of good news on Jobs' recovery, it is hardly a shock to most that follow the company.
Jobs is said to be something of a control freak, to put it lightly, and has always been closely involved with the development of Apple's big projects going back to the days of the Macintosh. While Phil Schiller and Tim Cook were certainly going to see their roles at the top of the company increase, it was still clear that as long as Steve Jobs could stand up, he would be running as much of the show as he could.
Now, the questions turns to when Jobs will be returning to Apple headquarters and whether he will be resuming his role as the primary public face of the company. Phil Schiller hasn't exactly destroyed the company with his appearances, but he's also no Steve Jobs.
When he first left, Jobs said that he would shoot for the end of June. Aside from the end of the fiscal quarter, late June has traditionally been when the company issues its iPhone update. Perhaps we will see the triumphant return of Jobs at some sort of iPhone function around that time.
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