Is Apple Inc moving towards mediocrity?

After Steve Jobs left the helm of Apple Inc in October 2011, the leadership of the most glorious IT giant came into the hands of Tim Cook. He was then found the best proven and competent for the post by the Apple Boards of Directors. But with time passing by, Apple's reputation and its product quality is getting deteriorated leaving the company on the coast to decelerate further.

Analysts, investors and other pundits around the world are discussing with one another for this quarter result of iPhone maker to be an indication of Apple's dooming towards mediocrity. Some even said that, Apple's board should have found another charismatic leader to replace Jobs instead of Tim Cook.

Is a company well known for its excellence with product quality and innovation is really inching towards ordinariness?

Without Jobs's charisma, design vision and ability to take big risks, Apple and its products and lacking ingenuity and innovation. Without a charismatic person like Jobs, company is most probable to end like a rudderless organization that will have a long, painful decline. To remind you all, Sony has been one such organization in past few years, which was worth more than $120 billion in 2000 and is now valued at $16.4 billion.