Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56.
Steve Jobs, Apple’s Visionary, Dies at 56
Steven P. Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He was 56.
The death was announced by Apple, the company Mr. Jobs and his high school friend Stephen Wozniak started in 1976 in a suburban California garage.
Mr. Jobs had waged a long and public struggle with cancer, remaining the face of the company even as he underwent treatment. He continued to introduce new products for a global market in his trademark blue jeans even as he grew gaunt and frail.
He underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2004, received a liver transplant in 2009 and took three medical leaves of absence as Apple’s chief executive before stepping down in August and turning over the helm to Timothy D. Cook, the chief operating officer. When he left, he was still engaged in the company’s affairs, negotiating with another Silicon Valley executive only weeks earlier.
“I have always said that if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s C.E.O., I would be the first to let you know,” Mr. Jobs said in a letter released by the company. “Unfortunately, that day has come.”
By then, having mastered digital technology and capitalized on his intuitive marketing sense, Mr. Jobs had largely come to define the personal computer industry and an array of digital consumer and entertainment businesses centered on the Internet. He had also become a very rich man, worth an estimated $8.3 billion.
Eight years after founding Apple, Mr. Jobs led the team that designed the Macintosh computer, a breakthrough in making personal computers easier to use. After a 12-year separation from the company, prompted by a bitter falling-out with his chief executive, John Sculley, he returned in 1997 to oversee the creation of one innovative digital device after another — the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. These transformed not only product categories like music players and cellphones but also entire industries, like music and mobile communications.
Yutz
An Apple a day should have kept the doctor away.
A world changer
Through history there were very few men that have literly changed the whole world in a positive way Jobs was one of them and we all have benefitted from his effort.
Now we need a another to find the cure for cancer.
DaasTorah
Baruch Dian Haemet.
terrible news
he was a troumendous and accomplished man, he helped the world know how amazing hashem made this world, the rebbe always used technology to influence torah, jobs help make that possible, i daven and say chitas off my phone, and have the rebbbe pod, what a loss….
Levi
Baruch dayan haemes
Latest Invention :)
iBoruch Dayan Hoemes
Steve Jobs 1955-2011
The all new iDead from Apple!!
CH resident
He was a great marketer and made people believe that his product was head and shoulders above the competition. Once the branding was successful and he indeed had more capital to infuse in his products it eventually became true (though still overrated imho). One problem he had was he was too liberal in many regards and pushed a faygeleh to become CEO, which at that point he lost me. Never going to buy an Apple from a company run by Toeivah… I’ll settle for a blackberry and dell.
Nu?
Er Iz a Yid?
You guys meshuga
He is not jewish
yakov khanin
To CH resident:
Hardly you can escape him.
Blackberry and all other dudes did not invent their own stuff, they improved SJ’s ideas.
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so that means no more of the apple products?
bde
he was a very smart man
apple
Steve Jobs is trying to enter the gates of heaven but the key doesn’t work. Again and again he tries until an angel walks by and says “Steve, slide to unlock.”
apple
Steve Jobs is trying to enter the gates of heaven but the key doesn’t work. Again and again he tries until an angel walks by and says “Steve, slide to unlock.”
Chaim Tovim
iSad. Please keep your phone half charged today