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Steve Jobs: innovator who enjoyed a second bite of the Apple Technologyis nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people,
that they're basically good and smart, and ifyou give them tools, they'll do won-
derful things with them.
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, the co-founder and
chief executive of Apple Computer,
topped the Computer Weekly 40th
anniversary poll due to the devoted
following he has generated through
his pioneering work in personal
computing and product design.
Jobs was born in 1955 in San
Francisco, and during his high
school years he showed his early
enthusiasm for computing. He met
fellow Apple founder Steve Wozniak
during a summer job at HP.
In the autumn of 1974, Jobs, who had dropped out of university after one
term, began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve
Wozniak. He took a job as a technician at Atari, a manufacturer of popular video
games.
At the age of 21 Jobs saw a computer that Wozniak had designed for his
own use and convinced his friend to market the product.
Their second machine, the Apple II, was introduced the following year and
became a huge success, turning
Apple into an important player in
the personal computer industry.
In 1983 Apple launched the
Lisa, the first PC with a graphical
user interface - an essential ele-
ment in making computing acces-
sible to the masses. It flopped be-
cause of its prohibitive price, but
getty images the next year Apple launched the distinct, lower priced Macintosh and it became
the first commercially successful GUI machine.
Despite his success in founding Apple, Jobs left following a boardroom
row in 1985. But his influence on the computer industry did not end there.
Jobs moved on to found Next Computer, then in 1986 he bought little
known The Graphics Group from Lucasfilm, which achieved global dominance
in animated feature films during the 1990s, after being renamed Pixar.
Without Jobs, Apple had stumbled. Market share fell while it struggled to
release new operating systems. Its answer was to buy Jobs' company Next, to-
gether with its innovative operating system, and welcome back its charismatic
former CEO.
On returning to Apple, Jobs drove the company ever deeper into the con-
sumer electronics and computing market, launching such revolutionary products
as the Macbook Air, iPod and iPhone, all of which have dictated the evolution of
modern technology. Apple's quarterly reports improved significantly in 2007:
Stocks were worth $199.99 a share -a record-breaking number at that time
and the company boasted a staggering $1.58 billion profit, an $18 billion surplus
in the bank and zero debt.
In 2003, Jobs discovered that he had pancreatic cancer. In 2004, he had a
successful surgery to remove the tumor.
In respect to his personal life, Steve Jobs remained a private man who rarely
disclosed information about his family. What is known is Jobs fathered a daughter
with girlfriend Chrisann Brennan when he was 23. Jobs denied paternity of his
daughter Lisa in court documents, claiming he was sterile. With Chrisann struggling
financially for much of her life, Jobs did not initiate a relationship with his daughter
until she was 7, but when she was a teenager she came to live with her father.
In the early 1990s, Jobs met Laurene Powell at Stanford business school,
where Powell was an MBA student. They married on March 18, 1991, and lived
together in Palo Alto, California, with their three children.
On October 5, 2011, Apple Inc. announced that its co-founder had passed
away. After battling pancreatic cancer for nearly a decade, Steve Jobs died in
Palo Alto.

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