Well, that's hard to disagree with. Apple was one of the early inventors of the personal computer industry, but when Jobs left Apple fortunes began to diminish. In the mid nineties, Apple was becoming all but irrelevant. Then Jobs returned, and the hits started appearing. The iMac, the iPod, now the iPhone, the iPad and the MacBook Air. Apple has set the pace in an industry that was dominated by Microsoft, and Jobs has carved out a leading space in the home and personal mobile devices.
MarketWatch describes Jobs as "a meticulous micromanager who can drive his employees to distraction - and one of the most important figures in American industry in the past half-century."
It hasn't been all roses. The Apple
