Steve JobsA genius departsThe astonishing career of the worlds most revered chief executiveOct 8th 2011 | LONDON AND SAN FRANCISCO | from the print editionIT WAS always going to be a hard act to follow. On October 4th Apple staged a press conference to launch its latest iPhone and other gadgets. Tim Cook, the computing giants new chief executive, and his colleagues did a perfectly competent job of presenting its latest wares. But it was inevitable that comparisons would be drawn
