The Legacy of Steve Jobs
Last Modified: 06/03/2018
Apple's co-founder will be remembered for pushing the boundaries of what gadgets could and should do.
- 1 Thanks for coming. Thank You!
- 2Steve Jobs was known to push the boundaries of what gadgets could...
- 3...and, in many people's eyes, should do.
- 4A charismatic showman,...
- 5...Jobs seemed to know what consumers wanted long before they did.
- 6By introducing the first user-friendly personal computer to the masses,...
- 7...he transformed a geeky hobbyist obsession...
- 8...into a pillar of modern life.
- 9The Apple II, conceived in a garage...
- 10...with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and introduced in 1977,...
- 11...sent IBM and others scrambling to get their own PCs to market.
- 12By 1985, faltering sales and competition from Windows PCs...
- 13...forced Jobs from the company he helped found.
- 14During his ten-year hiatus, Jobs led two companies.
- 15NeXT, a computer company that formed the basis for Apple's current software platform, OS X...
- 16...and Pixar, the computer animation studio famous for the "Toy Story" movies.
- 17Jobs maintained two roles upon his return to Apple in 1997:...
- 18...CEO of Pixar and CEO of Apple.
- 19He eventually sold Pixar to Disney for so much stock...
- 20...that he became Disney's largest individual shareholder.
- 21On stage, in his uniform of jeans and a black turtleneck...
- 22...he'd entranced audiences with new Macs, iPhones and iPads.
- 23All of these helped make Apple the largest tech company in the world,...
- 24...surpassing longtime rival Microsoft in May of 2010.
- 25Jobs didn't dream up these inventions.
- 26His genius was in spotting and bringing new technologies to the masses.
- 27In the 1996 PBS series "Triumph of the Nerds",...
- 28...Jobs said Apple has always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
- 29Under Jobs's watch, Apple maintained a level of secrecy...
- 30...that regularly frustrated investors and the media.
- 31But he also led Apple to balloon into the second largest company of any kind...
- 32...in the United States by market value.
- 33Jobs resigned as CEO in August of 2011...
- 34...after several health related leaves of absence,...
- 35...including a liver transplant and treatment for pancreatic cancer.
- 36Steven Paul Jobs is survived by his biological sister Mona Simpson,...
- 37...daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs, and his wife Laurene Powell, and their three children.
- 38Sandy Kozel, The Associated Press.
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