Steve Jobs

Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs (/ d??bz / February 24, 1955 to October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor and designer. He is best known as co-founder, president and CEO of Apple Inc. Apple, which was widely considered a pioneer of the PC revolution known charismatic, state, known to influence career devices and consumer electronics fields. Jobs co-founded and was CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, is a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006
when Disney bought Pixar.A end of 1970, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak developed the One of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, Apple II series. Jobs was the first park in the commercial potential of the mouse-driven GUI Xerox that led to the creation of the Apple Lisa, to see, and a year later, the Macintosh.

In the meantime, he also led the effort, the desktop publishing revolution in the beginning, especially with the introduction of the LaserWriter and PageMaker software partners. After losing a power struggle with the Council in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a company developing the platform in the field of higher education, specialized markets and activity industry. In 1986 he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, Pixar, how to distribute it. He was in Toy Story (1995) credited as executive producer. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2006] is the largest shareholder of Disney, jobs at seven percent and a member of the Disney board. purchased by the difficulties in developing a new Mac operating system, Apple, NeXT had in 1996 to NeXTStep foundation of what it was Mac OS X. Under the agreement with Apple’s own appointed advisors. Because Apple has not taken control of the company’s work and was appointed “interim president” in 1997, or, as he jokingly called “ICEO”. Under his leadership, was saved from bankruptcy by Apple in 1998 and was profitable. Supervised the work in the next decade, the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone and iPad, and in services, the company stores Apple Store, iTunes Store and App Store.

success of these products and services and the provision of a year more stable financial performance, conducted by Apple to be one of the world’s most valuable publicly traded in 2011. The relaunch of the company is considered by many commentators as one of the biggest turnarounds in the history of economics. Diagnosed in 2003, the use of a neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas was. Although he was initially treated for a hormone imbalance, underwent a liver transplant in 2009, and appeared increasingly thin as his health deteriorated. About Medical for most of 2011 left, became unemployed is the CEO of Apple in August of this year and was elected Chairman of the Board. He died of respiratory failure with a metastatic tumor, 5 October 2011 connected.