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Steve Jobs: Father of a cultural revolution

You've probably heard that Steve Jobs to retire as CEO of Apple Inc. yesterday, offering on board, and, by extension, the public, and a short letter-the-point of resignation, which suggested his departure was due to his declining health. There are not many business people whose retirement causes both online chat and such a frenzy in the news, but then there is not much Jobser Steve. He was the visionary leader for Apple, on and off since he co-founded the company in the 1970s, the company that inaugurated the era of the personal computer. And while Apple never enjoyed market dominance — it was Microsoft and the various PC clones that did that — they all seemed to be chasing Apple's tail in terms of innovation.

But if Apple never dominated the PC market, it enjoys a healthy chunk of the MP3 player market, and absolutely owns the tablet market — two of the more recent developments in our Information age. Both were nursemaided into existence by Jobs in one of the more remarkable late-career stories in history — Jobs serves as a rebuke to F. Scott Fitzgerald's claim that there are no second acts in American life. His was dazzling.

And so there will be a lot of retrospectives today about Jobs as inventor and about Jobs as businessman. I'd like to offer a third perspective. Because, in my view, Steve Jobs didn't just help make personal computing possible — that would have happened one way or another. But early computers were sophisticated adding machines, and early drafts of the home computer were extensions of this. Steve Jobs saw a creative potential in the device beyond its ability to quickly create spreadsheets, and it was in large part due to his vision that computing is used for so much creative output nowadays.

Bundled MacPaint and MacWrite He's always done this, to some extent. The Macintosh computer came bundled with both MacPaint and MacWrite, a graphics painting and a word processing program. Almost immediately, people began to create new art on the Apple — in 1985, Marvel released a comic book that was drawn using MacPaint, called " Shatter ." I recall it being very odd-looking when it came out, but, looking at it now, it had a bitmapped quality that is very appealing, looking like stills from the animated cutaways from early video games.

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