Most of you (if not all) guys know that Bloomberg accidentally published Steve Jobs’ obituary last week and rattled some investors. These news organizations routinely prepare obituaries in advance, even for the healthy. Bloomberg quickly retracted its obituary.

So what does this news have to do with todays post? Well, I found an article on Forbes about the things that Apple CEO Steve Jobs must do before he dies, or at least hopes that he would do before he dies.

1. A Tablet Computer

Apple has hinted that the iPod Touch won’t be the only device that will get a version of the iPhone’s touch-sensitive interface. One product long speculated about: a thin, lightweight Web tablet with a touch interface, perfect for browsing the Internet or viewing an episode of Torchwood from Apple’s iTunes store.

2. A Television

While Forrester Research (nasdaq: FORR - news - people ) trashed the idea in a report published earlier this year, others, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, have suggested Apple will design its own television. The effort could revive the fortunes of Apple TV, a set-top box that transfers content from Apple’s iTunes digital media store onto television screens.

3. A Remote Control

For a control freak like Jobs, a remote control might just be impossible to resist. Or so speculate the prognosticators at Forrester Research. Apple is already part-way there. An application created by Apple for the iPhone and iPod Touch already allows users to take control of the media on their computer or their Apple TV using the slim devices. A touch-sensitive remote control would be another step toward placing Apple at the center of the digital living room.

4. A Digital Book

Amazon’s Kindle is nice. The slim, white device allows Amazon customers to buy and read books for the online retailer at the touch of a button. And while the device isn’t the next iPod, it’s revived a category of gizmos many had left for dead. But something’s missing–and it’s not just Apple’s unerring design sense. What e-readers lack is a crafty business model, such as Jobs has constructed for putting content on Apple’s iPod digital media players.

5. The Personal Computer–Again

Jobs didn’t invent the graphical user interface, or the mouse. But he was the first to put them on a machine with the power–and the simplicity–to appeal to a mass audience. Twenty-four years after the introduction of the Macintosh, however, most of us still type when we want to communicate with our computers. Jobs’ experiments with touch interfaces and fascination with ever larger, thinner displays hint that he may have some thoughts on how to take the way we interact with personal computers in a new direction.[via Forbes]