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Where Will Tech Industry Go Without Jobs At Helm?

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Apple's CEO Steve Jobs announed he is stepping down. (AP)
Apple's CEO Steve Jobs announed he is stepping down. (AP)

Shares in Apple fell slightly this morning on the news that co-founder Steve Jobs is stepping down as CEO because he can no longer continue for health reasons. Jobs is a pancreatic cancer survivor who's had a liver transplant.

And Jobs is being heralded by industry watchers, insiders and consumers as a magic man, even a demigod for revolutionizing how we communicate.

But Jobs could be a mercurial, demanding micro-manager in his quest for innovation. Still Jobs has a bigger fan base than Elvis.

Rich Karlgaard, the publisher of Forbes Magazine told Here & Now's Sacha Pfeiffer that Steve Jobs is the Henry Ford or Walt Disney of American industry today.

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This segment aired on August 25, 2011.

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