While the battle with identity thieves and the crisis created by Congress would be more than enough to keep the train from movingforward, on January 18 the U S District Court for the District of Columbia enjoined the Internal Revenue Service from enforcing the regulatory requirements for registered tax return preparers.
Without Jobs around to keep Apple movingforward, it's possible these two firms will once again be looked on with the kind of respect they commanded just a decade ago, before anyone was around to show it can be done any differently.
Every single decision that I make is focused on giving them that chance -- because if we want to keepmoving this country forward, these are the folks who are going to get us there.