an aside firstly, new york times is horrible for forcing you to register to read articles!

though jobs is great at delivering marketing launches and making sure things get done the right way, jonathan ives was strongly behind the soft and hard interface designs of most of the past few years' apple gear, this will not change anytime soon.

what probably changes are the wwdc's and product launches, they won't be as cool, but who cares, you'll still buy product.