WI: Steve Jobs died in 2006

It's hard to tell much in terms of internal butterflies at Apple and as a result, how the products change. I can't see things changing on their end, as far as the public knows, for a few years.

We do know the out pour of sadness would come sooner and I actually think he'd be slightly more martyred than he is OTL, because he'd be less associated with a lot of the later Apple products and issues.
 
Probaby, Apple doesn't release the iPhone, and remains a niche computer firm with ~5% of the desktop market. iPhone developmnt started in 2005, so it may still be released, or it might be scrapped (RL initial release was June 24, 2007)
 
We still get many of the products because John Ive is not dead. Without Jobs however the notion of promoting Apple as cool may be lost to merely selling the product.

The iphone had to come out btw because Apple already was trying to develop a smartphone which could use itunes. Thanks to failures with Motorola Apple was granted permission for in house development. By 2006 there was already over a 100 million in the project, so it was not going to die.

Steve Jobs did a lot for computers but his image as designer, and creater, and thinker was more marketing then truth. A lot of people went into development of Apple products.
 
Apple never goes to Intel, and stays on the PowerPC format.
I think that decision was made before 2006, as it was evident that there wasn't enough industry support to keep the PowerPC going. The first Intel Macs came when, March 2006?
 
There could be some changes at another company. On May 5, Pixar was bought up by Disney, which made Steve Jobs the largest Disney shareholder. Disney made a lot of decisions between 2006 and 2011, some of which may have been influenced by Steve Jobs.
 
The iPad is completely butterflied away. Similar products had been aired before, but it was Jobs' cult of personality that got it off the ground.
 
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