As an Apple person I’m especially distressed by this. I consider Jobs the tech equivalent of Walt Disney. Only one ever comes along and it’s not a talent that can be simply taught. I got a “Macintosh” in the mid-late 80s and it was the first computer that really got me engaged in the possibilities. My thanks to Steve Jobs for changing everything. I trust he’s taking care of his health, which is a good thing.

Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, who almost single-handedly changed the way people around the world consume music, the Internet and even TV, announced late Wednesday that he has resigned as leader of the company he co-founded in his parents’ garage.

Jobs, who has suffered from pancreatic cancer and had a liver transplant in 2009, has looked increasingly frail in his cultlike appearances in front of Apple fans to introduce new products, but he did not explicitly indicate in a letter to the company’s board and its customers whether his health was failing.

“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know,” wrote Jobs, who has been on a health leave of absence since January. “Unfortunately, that day has come.”

Although not entirely unexpected given the grave nature of his previous illnesses — he had surgery for a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004 — Jobs’s resignation ends one of the most extraordinary runs in business history. This month, Apple briefly became the most valuable company in the world, surpassing oil giant Exxon Mobil.

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  1. dennisl59 says:

    Tammy calling Mr.Jobs the ‘Technical” equivalent of Disney is a very bold comparison worth a little exploration.

    Mr.Disney was an ‘artistic’ creative genius in the sense he was, in the beginning, a solo artist using the most basic of human expression and medium=drawings. Mind to Pen to Paper using his awesome God-given imagination. Now he did go on to ‘invent’,through necessity, methods and techniques to express his more complex visions.

    Mr.Jobs is ‘marketing’ creative genius-The person who wrote the technical requirements, i.e., “it needs to look, touch, and interoperate in the Apple Software Environment and,most importantly, meet a specific price point, so the products would sell”. He told his team: if you can’t buy it, then invent it. And so they did. Every Apple product you physically handle in the 21st century is the ‘brainchild’ of Jobs. But he was never a ‘solo artist’ like Disney.

    You can’t ‘hold’ Mr. Disney’s ‘vision’ because it lives in your heart. There’s no software or hardware upgrade to “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” LOL!

    What they DO have in common is what I would call The Magnetic Personality.
    Meaning they attracted vast groups of like-minded geniuses to advance their vision to create something totally unique, original or make technical leaps of faith in order to define the new ‘State of the Art”.(But I would like to know ‘how it feels’
    to have that supernatural moment of clarity these men must have had when ‘they just knew’)

    Looking at this another way. There’s The Perfect Venn Diagram(search the term)
    Picture this: You have two perfect circles and they can overlap in a relative ratio to each other. Circle(set) ‘a’ is Disney and circle(set) ‘b’ is Jobs.

    The overlapping area(Disney+Jobs) is what these two American geniuses have shared with all of Mankind.

    Jobs is the just ‘this close’ to Mr.Disney, but no cigar Ms.Bruce!

    To Infinity and Beyond!

    posted 8/25 1110pm Texans for Palin Time.

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