Most of us know who Steve Jobs was, especially those who have a Macintosh computer or an IPod or anything with the symbol of an apple on it. In the year 2004 he was diagnosed with a pancreatic cancer, and he finally passed away today, after a long and tough fight against the ilness. Of course, he was not the kind of person to surrender easily, and he went on working almost until the end. Many people remember his famous and inspiring speech delivered at the Comencement ceremony at Standford University. Many of those people I've just mentioned would like to pay homage to him somehow. May this blog be the means to do so for those who don't have another way to do it.
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer.
In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula and others designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. 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 subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until 2011.
In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney company in 2006. Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7 percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO.
On October 5, 2011, Apple announced that Jobs had died at age 56 due to pancreatic cancer.
In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula and others designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. 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 subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until 2011.
In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney company in 2006. Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7 percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO.
On October 5, 2011, Apple announced that Jobs had died at age 56 due to pancreatic cancer.
Source: Wikipedia
Please take a few minutes to watch and listen to his Standford speech. Worth watching! (with subtitles in Spanish):
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Apple, the company he co-founded, has lost one of its "fathers". Click here if you want to read about their reaction to the sad news. If you should wish to leave your condolences, write an email to rememberingsteve@apple.com
May he rest in peace.
2 comments:
Moving.
It's inspiring to see how this man fought the illness and didn't let it rule his life...
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