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Inside Computing
Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011) was a great American businessman in the fi eld of computer electronics. He is credited with having introduced the fi rst mouse-driven and icon-interfaced personal computer to the general public. He launched a host of successful products such as the Macintosh, the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad.
He was co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. until setting in his resignation in August 2011 due to health problems. Jobs also served as chief ex- ecutive offi cer of Pixar Animation Studios (later acquired by the Walt Disney Company), the company which he had acquired in 1986 with the exclusive purpose of producing computer animated fi lms. Cars, Toy Story, Ratatouille, Finding Nemo are among some of Pixar’s most successful releases.
In 2007, the business magazine Fortune placed Jobs at the top of their Power 25 list, a list of the most powerful businessmen in the world and in 2010, The Financial Times named him person of the year.
In 2007, backed by a long publicity campaign, Apple launches the long-awaited iPhone, a one-key cell phone with a multitouch screen, Internet capability, camera and multimedia player/reader.
With the introduction of the iPhone, Jobs leads Apple into the sector of mobile telephony.
In January 2010, Jobs introduces his fans to the long-awaited fi rst tablet computer: the iPad.
In 2004, Jobs is diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer which will force him to repeatedly go on medical leave until resigning permanently as Apple’s chief executive in August 2011, shortly before his death on October 5, in Palo Alto.
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“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish”
drawn from Steve Jobs’Stanford University Commencement Address, June 12th, 2005
“Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our fi nest creation – the Macintosh – a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fi red.”
“So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.”
“During the next fi ve years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds fi rst computer animated feature fi lm, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance.”
“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to fi nd what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fi ll a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfi ed is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you fi nd it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you fi nd it. Don’t settle.”
“Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.”
