Steve Jobs: miraculous comeback of a computing demigod

Steve Jobs, the sneaker-clad, former hippy and CEO of Apple, is returning to lead his flock after a period of medical leave, involving a liver transplant.

Halleluja, halleluja, he is risen. Blasphemous, maybe. But it's a fair summary of the Apple faithful's reaction to news that Steve Jobs is returning to lead his flock after a period of medical leave, involving a liver transplant. Jobs calls Apple products "art, science, religion all rolled up into one". To true believers, this sneaker-clad, former hippy is indeed a demigod, says The Observer. His public appearances are "regularly likened to religious revivalist meetings", and Apple fans often liken the Jobs life story humble birth, rise and fall, then miraculous comeback to those of Odysseus, Jason, Krishna and Christ.

Almost everyone has an opinion on Jobs, says Time. But no one really knows him. "I wish Bill Gates well," Jobs once said. "I only wish that at some time in his life he had dropped acid or spent time at an ashram." It was a typically waspish line, hinting at Gates's deficiencies, while proclaiming his own spiritual and counter-cultural superiority. In the battle between Microsoft and Apple, says The Sunday Telegraph, Jobs always made it personal.

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