Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO: 10 Products That Defined His Career (PHOTOS)

NEW YORK (PETER SVENSSON, AP/THE HUFFINGTON POST) -- Steve Jobs had no formal schooling in engineering, yet he's listed as the inventor or co-inventor on more than 200 U.S. patents. These are some of the significant products that were created under his direction:

Read on to find out what this huge announcement means for Apple; to meet the company's new CEO Tim Cook; to watch Jobs's most iconic moments at Apple; to read Jobs's best quotes ever; to read over his letter of resignation and to see how the web reacted to the news.

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Apple's first product was a computer for hobbyists and engineers, made in small numbers. Steve Wozniak designed it, while Jobs orchestrated the funding and handled the marketing.

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Apple's first product was a computer for hobbyists and engineers, made in small numbers. Steve Wozniak designed it, while Jobs orchestrated the funding and handled the marketing.

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[Danymansour]

05:24 PM on 09/05/2011

is the iphone 5 coming this year?

[adminjenni]

02:40 AM on 09/05/2011

Simple words to say about, Steve Jobs is jus amazing guy he had given a lot to make Apple stand.

[freethinking moderate]

10:42 PM on 09/01/2011

People can hate on Steve Jobs all they like. However, they cannot deny nor negate his massive contributions to technological development and human history. Steve Jobs made non-Apple tech companies better by innovating beyond the horizon and for all those haters on here who say they'll never use Apple tech, the tech that you are using is better because of Apple.

[ampere11]

11:36 AM on 09/01/2011

As a software developer, I will never support Apple. Keep your "glamourware."

[xphilosoph]

12:02 PM on 08/25/2011

Steve Jobs deserves a lot of credit as a great innovator, marketer, industrialist, technology thought leader and visionary.
He, more than almost anyone else, has made high technology useful, appreciated, cool and fascinating to the masses.

The downside is he achieved the ultimate corporate capitalist dream by selling high demand overpriced proprietary hardware and software, manufactured with the cheapest off-shore labor to maximize profit margins.
Apple is now using their market leadership position and patent wars to actively suppress competition.
This is the same sort of socially undesirable behavior IBM and Microsoft were accused and guilty of in the past.

I greatly respect Steve (and the Woz) and wish him well, but it is a bit sad to think that Apple's hard drive for success is turning it into one of THEM.

[cathleen]

11:40 AM on 08/25/2011

.FOLKS AROUND THE WORLD SHOULD START A PRAYER CIRCLE FOR THIS DUDE. A TWITTER, FACEBOOK, IPHONE PRAYER CIRCLE.


Jobs has resigned his position as CEO of Apple, the company announced August 24, 2011.
Credit: Reuters/Beck Diefenbach/Files
By Anna Yukhananov

WASHINGTON | Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:03am EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Patients with the rare form of cancer suffered by Apple Inc's Steve Jobs face a tougher battle if the disease recurs, because of the methods used in fighting it.

Jobs said on Wednesday that he could no longer be chief executive of the company he co-founded. He had gone on medical leave in January for an undisclosed condition after years of fighting a rare type of pancreatic cancer and other health issues.

He gave no new details on his health in his latest announcement.

The type of pancreatic cancer is caused by an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor.

Jobs was reported to have undergone a liver transplant in 2009 to fight off the spread of the neuroendocrine tumor. The procedure is experimental and is fraught with complications.

Jobs has never publicly stated the reason for his liver transplant.

Dr. Simon Lo, director of pancreatic and biliary diseases at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles said the most likely serious complication after Jobs' liver transplant would have been further spread of the cancer, which could have forced Jobs to leave his position permanently. Lo has not treated Jobs.

[cathleen]

11:32 AM on 08/25/2011

How has Apple treated employees?

He should take some bites out of Bloodroot for cancer.

[ButteJbyrd]

11:26 AM on 08/25/2011

I remember putting out a weekly broadsheet newspaper on a postcard-sized screen of a Mac II with PageMaker. It was pretty spiffy at the time; now I wonder how I did it.

[dwill123]

11:26 AM on 08/25/2011

Some attention should be given specifically to the Mac OS (derived from the NeXT OS).

[dysney]

11:02 AM on 08/25/2011

I owned an Apple II Plus back in 1983, 48k and did everything, even Pong. Only owned Apple since (am in graphics). Am up to a MacPro 4-quad, the iPhone, iPod and 2 iPads. Thanks Steve. But I'm still a little ticked off about the iWeb abandonment.

[AllyCat7]

04:07 PM on 08/25/2011

48k, as in it cost $48,000? wow

[BUTCHER99]

10:48 AM on 08/25/2011

Maybe we can finally get a two button mouse on a mac (the functionality is actually there, just no mac made 2 button mouse) Maybe we can finally get flash on our iPads and iPhones.
Because is never a reason to not do something most people want

[Brittany Lince]

03:43 PM on 08/29/2011

Go buy a two button mouse if it bothers you so much

[Fercho]

09:59 AM on 08/25/2011

Steve, thank you for everything. I forgive you for the puck mouse. Please come back.

[bryanzth]

10:57 AM on 08/25/2011

Haha, I use a trackball! But I am with you 100%

And with Steve in the idea that technology should be invisible to the task, whether it be hardware or software.

BZ.

[EggZacktly]

09:58 AM on 08/25/2011

One of the most successfull tech theives in history.

[helioszephyr]

01:19 PM on 08/25/2011

... cause you're so plugged into the tech industry, you witnessed this yourself.

[blacksun93]

02:26 PM on 08/28/2011

helloszephyr -- try reading slide 3 above -- it does not say Jobs stole the technology employed in the Lisa from Xerox, which is found in every PC since, but that is what happened -- well documented at the time and since -- Xerox spent many millions developing these technologies (GUIs, the mouse, etc.) never to market them

[BrianmusPrime]

09:31 AM on 08/25/2011

My elementary school had Macintosh computers, then my middle school had the colorful imacs and powerbooks, then my high school had crappy and slow windows desktops. Im glad that apple products were available in my school. Thank You Steve Jobs!

[Danymansour]

09:22 AM on 08/25/2011

Apple Steve Jobs steps down, big shoes to fill.