iPhone 5 Was Last Apple Phone to Receive Steve Jobs' Input
The rest of Apple, meanwhile, was working on the iPhone 4S.
The last Apple device that received input from Steve Jobs was apparently the iPhone 5.
According to a profile article on current Apple CEO Tim Cook over at Businessweek, Jobs' last project was the recently released iPhone 5, which he worked on while the rest of the firm focused on the smartphone's predecessor, the iPhone 4S.
The website cites sources "familiar with the phone’s development" who claimed the last iDevice to receive detailed input from Jobs was the iPhone 5. Further unnamed sources suggests that Apple has yet to launch a product that Jobs "didn't personally bless".
Of course, this adds an extra amount of interest into what the firm launches next, which looks like it's going to most certainly be the iPad mini.
Jobs had stressed that the employee who holds the most power and influence "besides himself" is lead designer Jony Ive. One wouldn't be wrong in believing that if they do keep Ive on board, the traditions - at least for design - Jobs cemented at Apple won't be lost anytime soon.

Hell announced entry into the smart phone market today with the iHell 1.......Satan says he is partnering up with good friend and new arrival Steve Jobbs to fight fire with fire as they take on smart phone giant Apple.
Isn't that what nearly every company does?
For example... the Madden video game series is essentially the exact same game with one or two new features and updated rosters. Yet I know several people who are willing to shell out $60 every time a new one comes out. Automobile companies come out with new models nearly every year, and they typically have very few changes from year to year. I mean, a company sells you a product and then they have to find some way continue to sell you the product.
The magic of Jobs and the marketing team at Apple was that they actually could get people to buy the same product every year. Thats like the holy grail in the electronics industry.
You should welcome Tom's new "journalist" Zak Islam..........
all he has posted is Apple stuff....and not informative Apple stuff....
He's the one that wrote the article about "Steve Job was the first to think of a Tablet PC" article?"
PS: @Zak, I promise this is the last time, I'm gonna take a shot at you if your next article is something useful
very easy to do i can float a company at $1 per share and then a year later be at over $1 million dollars a share, share prices dont mean SHIT! thats why market valuations are not the way to value companys apple may have a market valu7ation of 500 billion but the actual valuation is a fraction of that
I agree this article has no useful information about the title at all.
People actually think that the higher ups actually invent the stuff when big products come up. When a company is small (like apple was in the 80s), I would agree. When you have large companies, there are teams of people dedicated to just parts of a particular product. The real ones that are creating these great products are the designers and project managers that are putting it all together.
Well /rant off here's the thing. Our good well respected and equally loathed the late Mr.Steve Jobs has passed OK? SO MOVE THE F*** ON FOR F*** SAKE and give Tim Cook his time of day. And this actually goes to the Apple camp itself and they need to stop with the "What would Steve Jobs do?" insecurities down the road. You can only stretch a legacy for so long until you realize that you'll turn into a dinosaur. And oh hey look what happened to that...
Jobs were good at getting the collective rear sides together when he wants to that's a given. But that's like saying he was the only brains bar none and those R&D + engineering + products' ppl are near useless w/o any instruction sets. I dislike Apple but even I don't believe this.
Jony Ive? Traditions are all good and fine... In gun making or wine but this is tech.
and then they would tell him to go ahead and do it. And it would just work and bring in the bacon.
You or me would not be invited in the board room to begin with. we would have to show up uninvited and even if we managed to tell them our crazy idea security would handle it afterwards and no f*** would be given.
Those invited in the board room are dumb suits themselves and they just don't have crazy ideas.
That's the only thing I miss about Steve Jobs one year later.