Do you really believe that the skillset that qualifies one to design the Apple II similarily qualifies one to design iPads and iPhones? I find that rather hard to believe.
(Also: You shouldn't read anything into my statements that I did not say. The Apple II is absolutely awesome, brilliant and amazing. That doesn't mean that knowing how to design it makes one fit for designing radically different stuff several decades later. To just assume that is absurd to the highest degree.)