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Steve Jobs 1955-2011
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Steve jobs born in san francisco on February 24, 1955.
Steve jobs was an American computer entrepreneur and innovator, apple computers,and maker of devices like imacs,ipods,iphones and ipads.he was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc.
In the late 1970s, Jobs along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula and othersdesigned, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the
company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until August 2011.
In 2011 Jobs “died peacefully surrounded by his family,” his wife, Laurene, and four children, said in a statement. In a tribute, Apple said it had “lost a creative and visionary genius and the world lost an amazing human being.”
On October 5, 2011, Jobs died in California at age 56, seven years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The cause of death has not yet been officially confirmed, but is generally believed to be pancreatic cancer.
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