The World is mourning the death of Steve Jobs



Five days have passed since this iconic public figure, Steven Paul Jobs has passed away but the vacant place felt behind is being felt more and more with every passing day. Undoubtedly one of the finest entrepreneurs and a wonder inventor who changed the way world looked at computers. He could always take the risk to come up with something new and every other new thing he brought to the market became the talk of the town. His Apple has always shown a direction when it came to technology.



He co-founded 'Apple' in the late 1970s along with Steve Wozniak and Steve Markkula and others. Apple went on to make Macintosh and it created a huge market. Jobs left Apple in 1985 to build his own company, Next, which was again later acquired by Apple and he went back to Apple as interim CEO from 1997. Jobs also spun up the Pixar Animation Studio in 1986 and was its 50.1% shareholder till in 2006 it was acquired by The walt Disney Company making him the largest individual shareholder of this company. Jobs became the CEO of Apple in 2000 and there was no turning back, he went on to create one wonder after another. And he can be called the savior of Apple because at one point Apple was going through big losses.



He was a magician when it came to machines and Apple was his magical world. We got the results too, through iPod, iMac, iPad, iPhone, iTunes and many more. Each of his product meant yet another feather to his ever victorious crown. He was a 21 year college dropout. He was born as to unwed parents and was adopted shortly after birth by Paul and Clara Jobs. His works were copied throughout the world but he remains the king. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer about seven years ago but he preferred to remain silent till a year ago he told about his disease. He resigned from the post of CEO of Apple this august and its impact was felt promptly in the market and share of Apple too.



The search for the future Jobs is on but it is nearly impossible because he himself was the future and its tough to make the way from the dead end left by this machine-world's emperor.


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