People who work for Apple are out, as are the members of the Mac-specific paper published media. No sense letting some shmo who has a back door into Apple's e-mail account get an edge on the rest of us. Trust-me, I don't. That's why I open the jackpot and place the first wager at 10 dollars for January 10, 1999. Two more crappy fourth quarters is all Apple and their stock price can take in my opinion, and they'll either auger into the ground or get scooped up by someone with more brains and stock equity for a takeover.
Fact is no one wants a crappy job.
Apple's search for the right qualifications would have to include someone who enjoys being jerked around by a random board, screwed over by Steve's ego, lambasted in the press, and wouldn't be around to do much but help file the papers in bankrucy court. The fact that the first order of business they would have to contend with is the latest quarterly drop in value. No speech from Jobs' is going to help the stock now. The investors will clue in to the fact that the reality-distortion field, in this case the ability to project delusions on a willing audience, doesn't extend outside the wall of whatever trade show he's babbling at. This has happened so often, that other writers are talking about whether it really changes the problems Apple has.