Wednesday 14 December 2011
Steven Paul Jobs (San Francisco, California, February 24, 1955 - Palo Alto, California, October 5, 2011) was an inventor, entrepreneur and U.S. tycoon in the computer industry. He excelled as a co-founder, president and CEO of Apple Inc. and revolutionize six industries: personal computers, movies, animation, music, telephones, tablets, and digital publishing. In addition to its link with Apple, was chief executive of Pixar animation computer graphics and maximum individual shareholder of The Walt Disney Company.
In the late 1970s, Jobs, along with Steve Wozniak and Mike Markkula, among others, developed and marketed a line of the first successful personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, he was among the first to realize the commercial potential of the graphical user interface driven by mouse, 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 company developing platforms targeted markets in higher education and administration. The acquisition of NeXT by Apple in 1996 brought Jobs back to the company he helped found, and he served as its CEO from 1997 to 2011, the year he announced his resignation, recommending as his successor Tim Cook.
He died on October 5, 2011, at age 56 due to pancreatic cancer.
1 comentários:
Dear Acácio
I appreciate your post, but next time try not to just copy it from somewhere else, try do write your own words. Jobs was a hard-working, very inteligent man we have to look up to, that is, follow his example.
Thanks a lot
Prof. Lígia Silva
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