Apple executives answered questions about the company's products and the state of the Korean technology market Tuesday, but they offered no insight into the most pressing issue before the world's most valuable technology company: Is Steve Jobs coming back?
Jobs told Apple employees in an e-mail Monday that he is taking time off to "focus on my health." He remains CEO during his medical leave, but Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook has taken charge of all the company's day-to-day operations.
How the management change will affect Apple's business and whether Jobs is likely to return are open questions right now. Apple didn't talk about Jobs during the company's hourlong quarterly earnings call Tuesday and none of the financial analysts on the line asked about the future of the man named "CEO of the Decade" by Fortune Magazine.
"I can't believe nobody asked the question," said Brian Marshall, an analyst with Gleacher & Co. "It was a pretty disappointing quality of questions," he said. He couldn't say why the issue of Jobs' health and his future at Apple didn't come up. "I guess people just assume that Steve's going to be CEO forever," he said.
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