Steve Jobs, tech’s last celebrity CEO

Are there any leaders left with geek cred like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates? Nope.

Which brings us back to Steve Jobs. So as long as he remains at the helm of Apple and its products stay popular, we’re not likely to miss his Macworld keynote too much – when he has something to say, he’ll figure out ways to draw a crowd. The question is what happens when His Steveness steps away from the company, or when its products are no longer the toast of the town.

When that happens – and it’s a matter of when, not if – we may all get wistful about the good old days of the Macworld keynote, when the techies of the world huddled like kids on Christmas, and expected to be blown away.