Before Retiring, Steve Jobs Laid Out "Product Road Map for Next Three Years"

If nothing else, business at Apple should proceed as usual for the next three years.

That's according to Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research. Following yesterday's announcement regarding

, Chowdhry released an incremental update on the firm. “For last one and a half months, Steve Jobs has not been seen at there HQ Cafe in Cupertino,” Chowdhry wrote. “Before that, he could be [seen] having lunch - probably once or twice a week. “[The] converged view is that Steve Jobs has laid out the product road map for the next 3 years....what happens after 3 years is anybodies guess.” While Jobs' replacement has already been selected, Chowdhry said that the company is making multiple hires. But will hiring so many new employees

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