“Steve is back to work,” Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman, told The New York Times and other US media outlets. “He is currently at Apple a few days a week and working from home the remaining days.”<\/p>\n
“We are glad to have him back,” Dowling told the newspaper.<\/p>\n
The Times said the Apple spokesman declined to say exactly when the 54-year-old Jobs, the visionary behind the wildly successful Macintosh computer, iPhone and iPod, returned to work or to discuss his health.<\/p>\n
Apple last week released the first public comment from Jobs since he went on medical leave of absence in January, a brief statement in which he lauded the sales of Apple’s latest model iPhone.<\/p>\n
Apple has been notoriously secretive about Jobs’s health since he underwent an operation in 2004 for pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n
A Tennessee hospital confirmed last week that Jobs had received a liver transplant and said his prognosis was “excellent.”<\/p>\n
Apple’s fortunes have been uniquely linked to Jobs, who returned to the California company in 1997 after a 12-year absence and turned around the flagging technology giant.<\/p>\n