WASHINGTON — Five years after the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, the Silicon Valley tech giant is bigger and stronger, despite lingering doubts over its future without the visionary leader.In financial terms, Apple has been an unstoppable juggernaut: its profit for the 2015 fiscal year was a whopping $53bn on revenues of $234bn — both figures doubled since the final year of Jobs’s reign before he died of pancreatic cancer on October 5, 2011.Apple’s market value is more than $600bn, below its 2015 highs but more than twice its level of 2011 and holding above Google parent Alphabet as the world’s most valuable corporation.Still, some analysts question whether Apple — which redefined the smartphone experience with its trend-setting iPhone introduced in 2007 and created a vast ecosystem of mobile applications — is losing momentum."It’s really hard to keep up the innovation cycle when you have developed a successful product," said technology analyst Jack Gold of J Gold Associates....
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