Google CEO Joins Apple's Board

This news will be for sure shake the IT business: Eric Schmidt, Google CEO will join Apple's Board of Directors; he will deeply be involved in Apple's future.
This news might re-ignite a previous rumor concerning Steve Jobs departure from his current Apple CEO position. Indeed, following his surgery 2 years ago, Steve jobs has been publicly less active (might not translate to his active involvement internally at Apple).
Of course many analysts would claim that Apple's future is linked to Steve jobs' one, and assuming that his departure would sign the end of Apple. This might have been true 2 or 3 years ago, but not anymore to our point of view.
If the iPod has been the catalyzor of "Apple's comeback", Intel transition will build the future, preventing any fire back as Cupertino experienced it with Motorola and subsequently with IBM. Even if Intel had problems in R&D or production of CPU, it would affect the entire IT/semiconductor industry; something really different from the situation when Motorola could not clock the PPC G4 over 1GHz...
Will Eric Schmidt be a good CEO for Apple?
Probably, his records and success at Novell and Google, couple to his vision, closed to the one (it used to be) at Apple, would make it a good candidate in case of Steve Jobs departure. But, this is officially not a current topic.
On the other side, it could also strengthen interactions between Apple and Google, making them stronger to compete with Redmond' Giant Microsoft.