The iPod, iPhone, and iPad, are just a few of extraordinary creations developed by the Apple Inc., team. Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc., chairman, and former CEO endured a long battle with pancreatic cancer and had surgery for the disease just a few years ago. On October 5, 2011 his suffering ended. He was 56 years old.
Steven Paul Jobs was an American computer entrepreneur and innovator. , Jobs co-founded Apple with Steve Wozinak and a few others in the late 1970s. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC’s mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple’s ensuing 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until August 2011.
Jobs died in California at age 56 of pancreatic cancer, seven years after being diagnosed. Reactions to the innovative genius’s death came from far and wide. Steven Spielberg said, “Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.” President Barack Obama also shared his sentiments. Michelle and I are saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Jobs. Steve was among the greatest of American innovators – brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it. WATCH highlights of the life of innovative genius, here on TomorrowPictures.tv.
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