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Steve, who put his beloved creation on the path to glory, and whose fingerprints are all over its current and future plans. "Apple had a better 12 months than many firms have in 12 years," saysMichael Gartenberg, an analyst.

Apple has taken the trophy for most valuable U.S. company ever and currently holds a market capitalization of $629.4 billion. The new iPhone 5 is out, with sky-high salesprojections. Apple has sold an estimated 6 million to 10 million iPhone 5s in the two weeks since its release. To date, 243 million iPhones have been sold. By the end of 2013, that figure is expectedto eclipse 500 million.
With the newest iPad and Apple TV expected soon, Apple's stock could climb higher, but without Jobs to look over Apple, how long can the magic ride last?

Wadhwa, vicepresident of academics and innovation at Singularity University. The Silicon Valley Company faces growing competition from the likes of Google, Amazon and Samsung in the fast-paced tech market.

Theforceful visionary, considered one of the greatest business and marketing geniuses ever, set such impossibly high expectations at the company that with each passing day, maintaining Jobs' standardbecomes more difficult, Apple watchers contend.
Jobs' name is synonymous with the Apple brand not only in terms of innovation but in culture: He was its public face, as Walt Disney was with hiscompany, says Paul Saffo, a technology futurist who teaches at the Stanford University.

"Apple's biggest challenge is to define itself in the post-Steve Jobs era," - Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, whoworked at Apple in the 1980s.

"Where it is struggling is when it pretends to be Steve Jobs instead of actualizing its new identity. They need to find out who they are now." "Where is the magic?Where are all the great advances that we were promised?" says Wadhwa.

Flash back more than a year ago, when Jobs resigned for health reasons on Aug. 24, and then-chief operations Officer Cook took...