Since Jobs returned to Apple, he's directed a sharp and rapid rise in the value of the company, including launches of several separate high visibility and impact product lines. But you already know this. Your claim is a lot like saying Michael Jordan got lucky to have such weak competition.
I'm a fan. When something is good, the only rational choice is to be one.
I can't deny that Apple has executed extremely well in the last decade. I use and enjoy a bunch of their devices. But their competition has also been really dumb and that's distracted from some of the genuine weaknesses of Apple's gear over the same time period.
When you remember how badly designed and marketed the iPod's competitors were its success is less remarkable.
This is true, I can't remember how many smart phones I went through from Nokia, HP, Sony, etc trying to find one that that was usable. All these companies were producing junk, in the end I gave up and went back to a dumb phone, until the iPhone...
I'm a fan. When something is good, the only rational choice is to be one.