“It wasn’t simply a matter of the illness that had sidelined him for half the year before, leaving him severely emaciated and eventually requiring a liver transplant,” Waters and Menn report. “Little more than a decade earlier, both Mr Jobs’ career and Apple, the company he had co-founded, were widely considered washed up, their relevance to the future of technology written off both in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street. By the start of this year, however, the rebound was complete.”
Waters and Menn report, “Now, three decades on, he has secured his place in the foremost ranks of the West Coast tech titans who have done so much to shape the world around the turn of the millennium.”
Much more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “JES42” and “GetMeOnTop ” for the heads up.]
You just gotta love him.
They really need to drop the “modern” from the headlines. Find someone else who has done anything remotely similar…
Gotta give credit where credit is due. Most will ignore the extraordinary feats by Apple for whatever reasons but Jobs has to be one of the most incredible stories of our modern era regardless industry.
Good job Mr. Jobs. Merry Christmas and thank you for the coolness.
Changed my life in 1992. (powerbook 170)
Thanks Mr. Jobs.
My shareholding in your company is pretty farking amazing too.
Seasons greetings to all at MDN and all the regulars.
also, he shits geraniums
Never bet against Steve Jobs.
The Apple turnaround is truly amazing.
Period.
@occurs razor
Ditto on the first 1992 Mac, a Powbook 170, and the shareholding with massive profits for my family. Even when days were dark, I stood by Apple and now Jobs has rewarded all the faithful for their belief that Apple would persevere and surpass Microsoft, which it has in so many ways. And the best is yet to come.
Merry Christmas Mr. Jobs to you and yours, and many blessings to you,
An appreciative fan/user
Steve Jobs is pretty impressive. I dial-up his Stanford speech every now and then (you tube).
And Michael Dell is the wrecking ball responsible for the biggest junk piles in modern business history. ‘Ceptin’ maybe for Ballmer.
Did i Ever tell u that ur my Hero ?
Well Yes u r (Mr Steve J) ur a True Visionary.
Like Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters of the 1960’s, Steve Jobs and Apple have been tweaking the nose of the status quo since the 1970’s.
Think Different.
magic word: further .:.
The one and only !
How many of these articles are going to be written? Over and over again, same stuff. Link hungry publishers writing about the same old, same old. We get it. Steve Jobs made a comeback. The whole him against Sculley and the world. Moving along…
In my book, Mr. Steve Jobs, you are “The Man”!!
Merry Christmas. Happy Holiday, and Happy New Year to you, your family, and all Apple employees… Job well done!!
We can not wait to see you on stage at Yerba Buena Center announces insanely great products again in 2011!!
A decade ago I abandoned Microsoft and, trusting Steve Jobs, bought a Mac. Then another. Then two more and I bought Apple stock too. Now I am not only happy, I am darned near rich!
I love talking to people every day who have no idea what’s going on. They see apple as the company they knew back in 1995 in the MacOS days before OSX. A quaint company, but bothered by the large amount of credit they seem to be getting in the press. When the iTunes store came out these people were asleep at the wheel- who would want to buy a single song for $.99? Then came iPhone- who would buy a phone without a physical keyboard? Then iPad, just a big iPhone, right? Struggling to understand the future those fools are.
My first computer was a SE30. Back in those days it was all new. My other new Mac buddies and those in the Mac user groups (miss those) had to be reminded to get up take a walk, eat and drink something, take a break, SLEEP. 5 minutes in Mac time = about an hour. Couldnt get enough of it all. So much to learn and do. Then came the WWW. Those were heady new horizoned times indeed. It changed my life. I love be an Apple user and evangelist. Now I have an iPad and it has changed my life similarly. I no lnger even have a laptop. Just my Mac Pro and iPad. The iPhone will be next when Verizon gets it. Next? An AppleTV. And then cutting my cable for TV. Can’t wait.
Thank you Steve. I’ve enjoyed every nano-second with my Apple hardware and software! I’m even thinking of applying for work at an Apple store so I can get paid for my evangelizing
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My friends always had Apple machines. I grew up using II’s and IIGS’s. But I had cheap DOS then Windows machines at home because computers frightened my parents (it was years before I taught them that they had that cause/effect backwards). In 1995 I went to work for PhotoDisc (which would become Getty Images) and started using Macs full time, daily. Those days were dark times, my friends. Not easy years to be a brand new Mac freak. PhotoDisc provided me with a pair of 8100s, and it took about 2 weeks to turn me into the slobering zealot I’ve been ever since. My personal first Mac was the very first Bondi iMac which I still have safely in cryo-sleep.
Thanks for coming back and straightening things out, Steve. And thanks to everyone else at Apple for continually making such fantastic stuff. Here’s to a brand new decade of changing the world.
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Mac Plus 1986… and never looked back…
oh yes..
Some saw the comeback before it happened, and profited therefrom.
I’m always sort of curious as the motives behind an article like this. Even as a mac fan – these get sort of redundant. And page filler for this guy. It’s akin to saying “Disney World is a fun place for kids.” Or McDonalds sells hamburgers. I think a vast majority of people realize this fact. big duh.
It can’t be said enough. Sadly, many keep thinking that Billy Fence is the boss of Apple… … must not think to much about it or I’ll make nightmares.
pretty impressive ?
he’s a living legend