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Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs ( / ˈ dʒ ɒ b z / ; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) [ 4 ] [ 5 ] was an American businessman, designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields.
Steven P. Jobs, the charismatic technology pioneer who co-founded Apple Inc. and transformed one industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies, has died. He was 56.
Steve Jobs dies; Apple's co-founder transformed computers and culture
Steve Jobs: His Legacy of Deals
Bloomberg News Apple said Wednesday that Steve Jobs, the technology pioneer who revived the company’s fortunes, died at the age of 56. Be sure to read The Wall Street Journal obituary for Jobs. Jobs famously transformed Apple through the creation of new technologies and gadgets that people embraced, and that altered the worlds of computing hardware, software, music, movies and marketing.Good one....so few acquisitions..but had so much of impact on apples core product design! by Oct 31
Bill Gates on Steve Jobs, Who Died Wednesday
In a statement, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates expressed his condolences on the death of Steve Jobs, saying that it had “been an insanely great honor” to work with his long-time rival and Apple Inc. co-founder. Mr. Gates’s full statement:
What Bill Gates Has Said About Steve Jobs Through the Decades
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs have been competitors and friends for decades. Here's a look at some of the things Gates has said about Steve Jobs through the years. "During 1984 Microsoft expects to get half of its revenue from Macintosh software." -- Gates appearance at an Apple event in 1983 . "To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different, it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard." -- 1998, as quoted three years ago in an AllThingsD interview . "I wish I had Steve's taste.
October 05, 2011 I’m truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs’ death. Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to everyone Steve has touched through his work. Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come.
Steve Jobs
Disney President Bob Iger, perhaps the closest entertainment executive to Steve Jobs, said the Apple co-creator leaves a legacy that will "extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built." Jobs, who died Wednesday at age 56 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, was on Disney's board of directors and was seen as a key advisor to the company on digital strategies. He also, of course, sold Pixar to Disney for more than $7 billion, which made him the entertainment giant's largest shareholder. "Despite all he accomplished, it feels like he was just getting started," Iger said in a statement released by Disney. Jobs played an instrumental role in the television industry's move to migrate content from the big screen to the computer screen, the iPod and most recently the iPad. In 2005, it was Jobs who cut a groundbreaking deal with Walt Disney Co.'
Disney's Iger pays tribute to Apple's Steve Jobs
Enlarge image Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak talks about the evolution of the company and his fellow co-founder Steve Jobs, who died yesterday at age 56. Wozniak and Jobs founded what is now Apple Inc. in 1976 to sell their computers.
The Tech World Reacts to Jobs Death
What Steve Jobs taught us about failure
College dropout. Fired tech executive. Unsuccessful businessman.
Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005)
Video of the Commencement address. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college.
How Steve Jobs transformed the tech industry
It's difficult to overstate how dramatically Steve Jobs reshaped how we interact with computers. The irascible, brilliant impresario led a transition from minicomputers and IBM PCs squashed into beige metal boxes to the Macintosh, the iPhone , and the concept that technology should be fun to use. Thanks to more than a dozen books about the Apple co-founder, and movies like Pirates of Silicon Valley , much of Jobs' life has become well-known. He started Apple with legendary engineer Steve Wozniak, at a time when the personal computer industry barely existed, after dropping out of Reed College.Apple Computer co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs introduces the all-new flat-panel iMac computer during his keynote speech at the MacWorld Expo in January 2002. Editor's note: Simon Garfield is the author of " JUST MY TYPE : A Book About Fonts", published by Gotham Books, a member of Penguin Group USA. London (CNN) -- With all the tributes to Steve Jobs, one thing tends to get forgotten: the man helped us write. Jobs was the first to give us a real choice of fonts, and thus the ability to express ourselves digitally with emotion, clarity and variety. He made Type Gods of us all. Simon Garfield