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The name Steve Jobs is known as a businessman and inventor of the United States. His genius was much praised by many people, even he dubbed as an visoner in the field of technology.
Exactly at 60 years ago, Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, USA, on February 24, 1955. Jobs Jobs arguably not as smooth as one might imagine. He previously worked in several companies ranging from Hewlett-Packard Company and the video game, Atari.
In 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, Apple eventually established to successfully introduce Macintosh. Macintosh itself into a small computer first commercial success with GUI - Graphical User Interface -, which is a factor in the ease of use of the computer by using graphical icons.
However at the end of May 1985, the decline in sales at the end of 1984 and the rift Jobs working with John Sculley, resulting in Jobs must stop as head of the Macintosh division.
Jobs also founded NeXT Computer and Pixar studios successfully developed into a company with a high value and cooperate with Disney. He became CEO and largest shareholder as much as 50.1% to be taken over by The Walt Disney Company in 2006. Since Jobs became the largest individual shareholder in Disney as much as 7% and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. After resigning as CEO on August 24, 2011, Jobs was elected as chairman of Apple's board of directors.
On October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs died in California at the age of 56 years, seven years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. At the time of his death, he was widely known as a visionary, pioneer and genius in the field of business, innovation, and product design, and the person who changed the face of the modern world, revolutionized six different industries. His death was widely and is regarded as a great loss to the world by fans around the world.
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