Interesting article about who may ultimately succeed Jobs:
http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/06/24/after-steve-jobs-handicapping-apples-back-bench/
Lots of good ones there. I remember Ive being floated around, and I discounted him for the same reasons. The only way you could get him to take the CEO job would be to tell him the new CEO wants to turn Apple into another Dell and forget design. Ive can only be happy with complete freedom and power to design good stuff, and Apple under Jobs is probably the only place he can get that.