Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO

He once told his board of directors that if the day comes when he could no longer fulfill his duties as CEO; they would be the first to know. Well that day came and true to his promise, he told them… in a resignation letter with immediate effect.

With that, Apple’s internal succession plan kicked into gear placing Tim Cook as the new CEO. Jobs, meanwhile, is now Chairman of the Board.

For such as sudden move, it seems to me that his health condition is the primary reason.

All this time, even during the years when he was out of the company, Steve is Apple and Apple is Steve.

Here is a man who, together with Woz, built computers in the garage, built a company for it, got ousted by the man he hired to run the company, ran two more companies following that, got his company bought by Apple, came back to reign Apple as interim CEO when the company was all but dead and turned it around into what it is today.

I don’t always agree with him and there are times when he did fail (e.g. the gel iMac round mouse, ewww) but those are minimal compared to what he has accomplished right.

The Macintosh always had a cult-like fanbase used to be the domain of those select few. But now, Apple creates the most sought-after consumer devices that attract mass appeal yet still evokes elitism and fanboy-ism among many.

So Steve is no longer CEO… it’s strange that I’m feeling uncertainty over this.