Sad if inevitable news that Steve Jobs is stepping down as CEO of Apple due to health concerns. I have major misgivings about the treatment of workers in Apple’s factories in Asia and the company’s light regard for consumer privacy, but Steve Jobs is one of the most singular Americans of his time. An artist as businessperson, a visionary who not only saw the future of tech but made it, Jobs brought big ideas to the marketplace and delivered on them, more often than not, sensationally. His latter stint at Apple was more spectacular than his first, giving lie to F. Scott Fitgerald’s famous line that there are no second acts in America, which is oft-quoted and has always been untrue. But never more so than in the case of Jobs.

More Steve Jobs posts:

• Job preps for an early TV interview. (1978)

• Jobs introduces the Macintosh. (1984)

• A Playboy interview in which Jobs predicts he’ll leave Apple. (1985)
  

• Jobs speaks cautiously about the power of the World Wide Web. (1993)

• Jobs opines on the intersection of technology and education. (1993)
  

• Stewart Brand pays tribute to Jobs and other “tech hippies.” (1995)

• Tom Junod profiles Jobs for Esquire. (2008)
  

• Jobs studied the work of Sony titan Akio Morita

• Jobs was phone phreak “Berkeley Blue.”

• Jobs thinks consumers don’t necessarily know what they want.

• Jobs explains what makes an entrepreneur successful