“Steve Jobs’s resignation as chief executive officer of Apple is the end of an extraordinary era, not just for Apple, but for the global technology industry in general,” Walt Mossberg writes for The Wall Street Journal.
“To be very clear, Mr. Jobs, while seriously ill, is very much alive. People with direct knowledge of the matter say he intends to remain involved in developing major future products and strategy and intends to be an active chairman of the board, even while new CEO Tim Cook runs the company day-to-day,” Mossberg reports. “This is not an obituary. But his health is reported to be up and down, and even an active chairman isn’t the same as a CEO.”
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Mossberg writes, “CEOs resign every day, so why is this one so meaningful? Most people are lucky if they can change the world in one important way, but Mr. Jobs, in multiple stages of his business career, changed global technology and media in multiple ways on multiple occasions. And that changed the way people live.”
Much more in the full article – recommended – here.