Honestly, we’d be much more surprised if Steve Job didn’t host Apple’s upcoming iPod announcement event–or, at the very least, play a fairly significant role in the proceedings. After all, the CEO is said to have been back at Cupertino for a while now, having returned to his customary close oversight of the company’s products.
According to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, such a return is all but inevitable. What’s interesting, however, is the role in which such an appearance is set to affect company stock. You see, it’s not the expected appearance of new iPod Nanos and Touches that will have Wall Street on the edge of its seat–the focus for most investors switched to the iPhone a while back.
Rather it’s the return of Jobs that’s expected to directly impact stock price. Jobs, after all, embodies Apple in manner rarely demonstrated by other CEOs. Steve Jobs is Apple, and Jobs’s success, if follows, is Apple’s.
Jobs hasn’t been seen on stage at an Apple event since October of last year.
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