Apple founder Steve Jobs dies

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9 things you didn’t know about the life of Steve Jobs





Steve Jobs leans against his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs (Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle/Corbis)


For all of his years in the spotlight at the helm of Apple, Steve Jobs in many ways remains an inscrutable figure — even in his death. Fiercely private, Jobs concealed most specifics about his personal life, from his curious family life to the details of his battle with pancreatic cancer — a disease that ultimately claimed him on Wednesday, at the age of 56.

While the CEO and co-founder of Apple steered most interviews away from the public fascination with his private life, there's plenty we know about Jobs the person, beyond the Mac and the iPhone. If anything, the obscure details of his interior life paint a subtler, more nuanced portrait of how one of the finest technology minds of our time grew into the dynamo that we remember him as today.
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1. Early life and childhood
Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955. He was adopted shortly after his birth and reared near Mountain View, California by a couple named Clara and Paul Jobs. His adoptive father — a term that Jobs openly objected to — was a machinist for a laser company and his mother worked as an accountant.

Later in life, Jobs discovered the identities of his estranged parents. His birth mother, Joanne Simpson, was a graduate student at the time and later a speech pathologist; his biological father, Abdulfattah John Jandali, was a Syrian Muslim who left the country at age 18 and reportedly now serves as the vice president of a Reno, Nevada casino. While Jobs reconnected with Simpson in later years, he and his biological father remained estranged.

Reed College

2. College dropout
The lead mind behind the most successful company on the planet never graduated from college, in fact, he didn't even get close. After graduating from high school in Cupertino, California — a town now synonymous with 1 Infinite Loop, Apple's headquarters — Jobs enrolled in Reed College in 1972. Jobs stayed at Reed (a liberal arts university in Portland, Oregon) for only one semester, dropping out quickly due to

the financial burden the private school's steep tuition placed on his parents. In his famous 2005 commencement speech to Stanford University, Jobs said of his time at Reed: "It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple."

Breakout for the Atari

3. Fibbed to his Apple co-founder about a job at Atari
Jobs is well known for his innovations in personal computing, mobile tech, and software, but he also helped create one of the best known video games of all-time. In 1975, Jobs was tapped by Atari to work on the Pong-like game Breakout. He was reportedly offered $750 for his development work, with the possibility of an extra $100 for each chip eliminated from the game's final design. Jobs recruited Steve Wozniak (later one of Apple's other founders) to help him with the challenge. Wozniak managed to whittle the prototype's design down so much that Atari paid out a $5,000 bonus — but Jobs kept the bonus for himself, and paid his unsuspecting friend only $375, according to Wozniak's own autobiography.

4. The wife he leaves behind
Like the rest of his family life, Jobs kept his marriage out of the public eye. Thinking back on his legacy conjures images of him commanding the stage in his trademark black turtleneck and jeans, and those solo moments are his most iconic. But at home in Palo Alto, Jobs was raising a family with his wife, Laurene, an entrepreneur who attended the University of Pennsylvania's prestigious Wharton business school and later received her MBA at Stanford, where she first met her future husband.

For all of his single-minded dedication to the company he built from the ground up, Jobs actually skipped a meeting to take Laurene on their first date: "I was in the parking lot with the key in the car, and I thought to myself, 'If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman?' I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town and we've been together ever since."
In 1991, Jobs and Powell were married in the Ahwahnee Hotel at Yosemite National Park, and the marriage was officiated by Kobin Chino, a Zen Buddhist monk.

5. His sister is a famous author
Later in his life, Jobs crossed paths with his biological sister while seeking the identity of his birth parents. His sister, Mona Simpson (born Mona Jandali), is the well-known author of Anywhere But Here — a story about a mother and daughter that was later adapted into a film starring Natalie Portman and Susan Sarandon.
After reuniting, Jobs and Simpson developed a close relationship. Of his sister, he told a New York Times interviewer: "We're family. She's one of my best friends in the world. I call her and talk to her every couple of days.'' Anywhere But Here is dedicated to "my brother Steve."

Joan Baez

6. Celebrity romances
In The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, an unauthorized biography, a friend from Reed reveals that Jobs had a brief fling with folk singer Joan Baez. Baez confirmed the the two were close "briefly," though her romantic connection with Bob Dylan is much better known (Dylan was the Apple icon's favorite musician). The biography also notes that Jobs went out with actress Diane Keaton briefly. 7. His first daughter
When he was 23, Jobs and his high school girlfriend Chris Ann Brennan conceived a daughter, Lisa Brennan Jobs. She was born in 1978, just

as Apple began picking up steam in the tech world. He and Brennan never married, and Jobs reportedly denied paternity for some time, going as far as stating that he was sterile in court documents. He went on to father three more children with Laurene Powell. After later mending their relationship, Jobs paid for his first daughter's education at Harvard. She graduated in 2000 and now works as a magazine writer.

8. Alternative lifestyle
In a few interviews, Jobs hinted at his early experience with the psychedelic drug LSD. Of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Jobs said: "I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger."

The connection has enough weight that Albert Hofmann, the Swiss scientist who first synthesized (and took) LSD, appealed to Jobs for funding for research about the drug's therapeutic use.
In a book interview, Jobs called his experience with the drug "one of the two or three most important things I have done in my life." As Jobs himself has suggested, LSD may have contributed to the "think different" approach that still puts Apple's designs a head above the competition.

Jobs will forever be a visionary, and his personal life also reflects the forward-thinking, alternative approach that vaulted Apple to success. During a trip to India, Jobs visited a well-known ashram and returned to the U.S. as a Zen Buddhist.
Jobs was also a pescetarian who didn't consume most animal products, and didn't eat meat other than fish. A strong believer in Eastern medicine, he sought to treat his own cancer through alternative approaches and specialized diets before reluctantly seeking his first surgery for a cancerous tumor in 2004.

9. His fortune
As the CEO of the world's most valuable brand, Jobs pulled in a comically low annual salary of just $1. While the gesture isn't unheard of in the corporate world — Google's Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt all pocketed the same 100 penny salary annually — Jobs has kept his salary at $1 since 1997, the year he became Apple's lead executive. Of his salary, Jobs joked in 2007: "I get 50 cents a year for showing up, and the other 50 cents is based on my performance."

In early 2011, Jobs owned 5.5 million shares of Apple. After his death, Apple shares were valued at $377.64 — a roughly 43-fold growth in valuation over the last 10 years that shows no signs of slowing down.
He may only have taken in a single dollar per year, but Jobs leaves behind a vast fortune. The largest chunk of that wealth is the roughly $7

billion from the sale of Pixar to Disney in 2006. In 2011, with an estimated net worth of $8.3 billion, he was the 110th richest person in the world, according to Forbes. If Jobs hadn't sold his shares upon leaving Apple in 1985 (before returning to the company in 1996), he would be the world's fifth richest individual.

While there's no word yet on plans for his estate, Jobs leaves behind three children from his marriage to Laurene Jobs (Reed, Erin, and Eve), as well as his first daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs.
[Image credit: Ben Stanfield, Heinrich Klaffs]
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[Candid Scope]

r.i.p steve...

Matumizi ya teknolojia ya computer nimeanza kuyapata katika kutumia computer ya Apple Macintosh. Wakati huo sikujua kama ulimwenguni kuna computer za aina nyingine zaidi ya Apple Macintosh. Hata hivyo baada ya kujua kwamba kuna aina ya computer za IBM nilipojaribu kuzitumia niliona ni ya kiwango cha chini mno nikilinganisha na apple macintosh.

Nilipokuwa chuo nje ya nchi hapo nililazimika kujizoesha computer aina nyingine kwa maana ya kufanya assignment ya darasani tuliruhusiwa kutumia apple computer tuliokuwa na major ya Digital Media and electronic publishing kwa kozi hizo tu, na kozi nyingine tulitakiwa kutumia compuer zenye tufe la display image ambayo processor yake ukubwa mithili ya ile mizinga ambayo enzi hizo ndo tulizoea kwenda nayo shuleni kwa kuwa suit case zilikuwa ni uzungu ambao wengi hatukuweza kuufikia.

Kwa mara ya kwanza kuona computer za IBM baada ya kuzoea apple, nilishangaa kuona mizinga miwili iliyounganishwa kwa nyaya nyingi hadi kunikatisha tamaa ya kutaka kutumia, kwani Apple ambayo processor system imekuwa built in monitor, zaidi ya electrical code for power supply, nyongeza ni printer na modemu. Hii imekaa poa sana tu, na waliobuni kichwani walitulia sana kama anavyoonekana marehemu Job.

Apple Macintosh ni computer ya kiwango, anayeweza kutambua ni yule aliyewahi kuitumia. Si computer ambayo unaweza kujifunza kwa ulaini kama hizi nyingine, maana imeundwa kwa utaalamu wa hali ya juu na kwa uimara zaidi. Unaweza ukafanya tangu you turn it on hadi you turn it off bila kutumia mouth ukishaizoea kwani ni command na short cut zinazokufanya ufanye kazi yako kwa haraka na kwa ufanisi zaidi.

Software za graphic design kama PageMaker, Quack Express, Adobe Illust; Photoshop nk ziliasisiwa kwenye Apple Macintosh. Baadaye wamezifanyia marekebisho ziweza kufanya kazi kwenye aina nyingine za computer system.

Kwa vyo vyote wana art mbalimbali duniani tunaomboleza kifo cha shujaa huyu ambayo kwa hakika amebadilisha ulimwengu wa analog kwa kasi ya ajabu na kutuingiza ndani ya ulimwengu mpya wa mfumo wa digital software system.

R.I.P. Jobs

 

[Anheuser]

Hakukuwa na jipya, kama lipo halikuwa teknolojia ya muhimu sana katika maisha ya binadamu.

Ipod ni toy la kusikilizia muziki wakati unatembea, kama ilivyokuwa Discman au Walkman, si teknolojia iliyosukuma mbele maendeleo ya binadamu saaaana. Tena ilidhuru, kuna watu wamezibuka ngoma za masikio au wamekufa kwa kugongwa na treni kwa kutosikia honi baada ya kuziba masikio manjiani. Na si marehemu aliyeanzisha portable MP3 players kama Ipod. Kwa hiyo hakikuwa kifaa kipya wala muhimu kwa binadamu.

Iphone haikuwa smart phone ya kwanza ulimwenguni, zilikuwepo nyingi tu. Ilipagawisha watu kwa vile tu ilinadiwa sana na Apple, ikasemwa ni nyepesi, nyembamba sana, na ina kasi sana. Kasi ya simu maana yake nini, ukisema neno linafika upande wa pili kabla hujamaliza kulitamka? Ikawa ina maudhaifu lukuki. Mpaka leo, kwa mfano, Iphone hazina teknolojia ya mkongo wa kizazi cha nne, zinaishia 3G, wakati zipo smart phone nyingine nyingi kama za Android au za Samsung za kizazi cha nne. Teknolojia ya touchpad, yani kukosa physical keyboard kama zile zilizo kwenye Blackberry, imekosolewa kwa kusababisha matatizo ya simu kuganda na kuharibika haribika.

MacBook ni nzuri, nyembamba, nyepesi. Tatizo bei. Wavumbuzi wengine, wakina Michael Dell au Wajapani wa Toshiba na wengine wameweza kututengenezea tarakishi mapaja zenye nguvu kama hizo hizo za Apple lakini kwa bei chee, hata dola 300, 400 unapata tarakishi nzuri tu. MacBook bila shilingi milioni unusu hujaipata. MacPro zinakwenda mpaka milioni nne! Kisa? Eti haishambuliwi na virusi. Ni kweli, sio kwa sababu ina teknolojia ya hali ya juu sana bali hakuna haramia mwenye muda wa kutengeneza kirusi kushambulia Mac. Na kama unajua jinsi ya kujikinga na virusi hivyo katika tarakishi nyingine basi zile za Mac kuwa nazo si lazima saaaana.

Ipad pia ni toy tu, kama mwanasesere wa kiteknolojia ambayo haikumwongezea faida sana binadamu.

Marehemu Jobs atapumzika kwa amani, alikuwa mgunduzi mkubwa lakini ni kabaila aliyetajirika kwa kutengeneza na kutuuzia simu ya mkononi kwa milioni. Simu moja shilingi Milioni!

 

[King’asti]

tell me abt it! when they say 'he pocketed $ 1 what do they mean?

 

[Nyani Ngabu]

Mijitu mingine bana...

 

[SHERRIF ARPAIO]

BY DIANA RANSOM AND JASON FELL | August 25, 2011

Here are 10 things to give thanks to Steve Jobs for:
1. The iPod and iTunes. For many consumers, the pint-sized gadget that first hit the scene in 2001 was their first entrée into digital music. At the time, there were other digital music players but none had the staying power of Apple's iconic iPod, its subsequent versions and offshoots like the iPod Touch. But perhaps even more revolutionary was Apple's iTunes, the digital media player that launched in 2001. That platform didn't just become the ubiquitous means by which music was bought, sold and shared, it broke down the old music model that gave record companies ultimate reign over the radio waves. Suddenly, independent musicians and artists didn't need a record deal to be heard; they can now reach their audiences directly

2. Not doing it for the money. Long before Citigroup's CEO Vikram Pandit was taking home $1 a year, Steve Jobs earned a measly $1 annual paycheck. When he rejoined the company in 1997 after being let go from Apple in 1985, Jobs set his salary at just $1. Though the tech pioneer is well-known for his wealth -- thanks to his investments in Apple and Disney, among others -- he has been quoted as saying "I never did it for the money." In 2010, his total compensation was again $1, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
3. Focusing on design. The original Macintosh computer aside, Jobs' focus on sleek, light-weight and resilient design has led to a concerted effort among the technology community to deliver similarly ergonomic technologies. Under his reign, dial-up modems, floppy drives and the fax machine got the ax, just to name a few.
4. Inspiring others. Not only do legions of entrepreneurs list Jobs as a source for inspiration, Apple's ecosystem has helped fuel thousands of other businesses. At present, there are more than 500,000 applications listed on iTunes, and countless other technology firms have sprung up to furnish ancillary products. From iPod battery-life extender Mophie to Apple-accessories supplier Speck to app development firm Sweb Apps, Jobs' creations for Apple have become critical to so many other businesses. Furthermore, applications developers and programmers have been building off the platform's specifications for years.

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5. The iPhone & iPad. E-readers, computers and mobile devices were already in existence when the iPad launched last January, but the newfangled gadget nonetheless caught on -- and beat record sales figures quarter after quarter. Apple's iPad -- which is expected to get a refresh in early 2012 -- also gave rise to new business concepts and uses. More than 90,000 applications have been developed for the iPad alone. Furthermore, other technology firms have since developed their own tablets but none have come close to touching Apple's success. Hewlett-Packard last week slashed the price of its TouchPad to $99 from the original sale price of $499, as it announced that it would discontinue the product.
Related: Remembering Apple's Steve Jobs

6. Wowing investors. A decade ago Apple's stock was worth $9 a share; today, it's $372. Second only to oil giant Exxon Mobil, at $345 billion, Apple is one of the world's most valuable companies.
7. Being a visionary. Just ask HP and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion if Jobs' laser-like focus on design has been tough to beat. Though, notorious for being a stubborn micromanager, Jobs has managed to steer Apple in the direction of excellence. He is a visionary in the sense that he developed products for consumers that he thought they needed -- and they confirmed his hunches again and again.
8. Forcing other corporate giants to be innovative. Thanks to the launch of iTunes, which demanded that songs sell for the low-low price of $1, record companies that wanted to reach consumers on iTunes were forced to comply. In 2007, Cingular moved to redesign its voice-mail system for the iPhone's visual voice mail. And in 2009, the typically guarded AT&T agreed to offer consumers a month-by-month data plan for the iPad without requiring a signed contract.
9. For proving that a dramatic turnaround can be possible. Once again in charge of Applein 1997, Jobs struck a deal with Microsoft to help ensure Apple's survival. Under the arrangement, Microsoft invested $150 million for a nonvoting minority stake in Apple, and the companies agreed to "cooperate on several sales and technology fronts." Next, Jobs installed the G3 PowerPC microprocessor in all Apple computers, making them faster than competing Pentium PCs. He also spearheaded the development of the iMac, a new line of affordable home desktops, which debuted in August 1998 to rave reviews. Under Jobs' guidance, Apple quickly returned to profitability, and by the end of 1998, boasted sales of $5.9 billion.

Related: Why Entrepreneurs Love Steve Jobs
10. Boosting employment. In 1997, the company and its world-wide subsidiaries had just 8,437 regular employees, and an additional 1,739 temporary or part-time contractors and employees, according to SEC filings. As of last September, Apple had approximately 46,600 full-time equivalent employees and an additional 2,800 full-time equivalent temporary employees and contractors.

Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com

 

[jmushi1]

BY DIANA RANSOM AND JASON FELL | August 25, 2011

Here are 10 things to give thanks to Steve Jobs for:
1. The iPod and iTunes. For many consumers, the pint-sized gadget that first hit the scene in 2001 was their first entrée into digital music. At the time, there were other digital music players but none had the staying power of Apple's iconic iPod, its subsequent versions and offshoots like the iPod Touch. But perhaps even more revolutionary was Apple's iTunes, the digital media player that launched in 2001. That platform didn't just become the ubiquitous means by which music was bought, sold and shared, it broke down the old music model that gave record companies ultimate reign over the radio waves. Suddenly, independent musicians and artists didn't need a record deal to be heard; they can now reach their audiences directly

2. Not doing it for the money. Long before Citigroup's CEO Vikram Pandit was taking home $1 a year, Steve Jobs earned a measly $1 annual paycheck. When he rejoined the company in 1997 after being let go from Apple in 1985, Jobs set his salary at just $1. Though the tech pioneer is well-known for his wealth -- thanks to his investments in Apple and Disney, among others -- he has been quoted as saying "I never did it for the money." In 2010, his total compensation was again $1, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
3. Focusing on design. The original Macintosh computer aside, Jobs' focus on sleek, light-weight and resilient design has led to a concerted effort among the technology community to deliver similarly ergonomic technologies. Under his reign, dial-up modems, floppy drives and the fax machine got the ax, just to name a few.
4. Inspiring others. Not only do legions of entrepreneurs list Jobs as a source for inspiration, Apple's ecosystem has helped fuel thousands of other businesses. At present, there are more than 500,000 applications listed on iTunes, and countless other technology firms have sprung up to furnish ancillary products. From iPod battery-life extender Mophie to Apple-accessories supplier Speck to app development firm Sweb Apps, Jobs' creations for Apple have become critical to so many other businesses. Furthermore, applications developers and programmers have been building off the platform's specifications for years.

​

5. The iPad. E-readers, computers and mobile devices were already in existence when the iPad launched last January, but the newfangled gadget nonetheless caught on -- and beat record sales figures quarter after quarter. Apple's iPad -- which is expected to get a refresh in early 2012 -- also gave rise to new business concepts and uses. More than 90,000 applications have been developed for the iPad alone. Furthermore, other technology firms have since developed their own tablets but none have come close to touching Apple's success. Hewlett-Packard last week slashed the price of its TouchPad to $99 from the original sale price of $499, as it announced that it would discontinue the product.
Related: Remembering Apple's Steve Jobs

6. Wowing investors. A decade ago Apple’s stock was worth $9 a share; today, it’s $372. Second only to oil giant Exxon Mobil, at $345 billion, Apple is one of the world's most valuable companies.
7. Being a visionary. Just ask HP and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion if Jobs' laser-like focus on design has been tough to beat. Though, notorious for being a stubborn micromanager, Jobs has managed to steer Apple in the direction of excellence. He is a visionary in the sense that he developed products for consumers that he thought they needed -- and they confirmed his hunches again and again.
8. Forcing other corporate giants to be innovative. Thanks to the launch of iTunes, which demanded that songs sell for the low-low price of $1, record companies that wanted to reach consumers on iTunes were forced to comply. In 2007, Cingular moved to redesign its voice-mail system for the iPhone’s visual voice mail. And in 2009, the typically guarded AT&T agreed to offer consumers a month-by-month data plan for the iPad without requiring a signed contract.
9. For proving that a dramatic turnaround can be possible. Once again in charge of Applein 1997, Jobs struck a deal with Microsoft to help ensure Apple's survival. Under the arrangement, Microsoft invested $150 million for a nonvoting minority stake in Apple, and the companies agreed to "cooperate on several sales and technology fronts." Next, Jobs installed the G3 PowerPC microprocessor in all Apple computers, making them faster than competing Pentium PCs. He also spearheaded the development of the iMac, a new line of affordable home desktops, which debuted in August 1998 to rave reviews. Under Jobs' guidance, Apple quickly returned to profitability, and by the end of 1998, boasted sales of $5.9 billion.

Related: Why Entrepreneurs Love Steve Jobs
10. Boosting employment. In 1997, the company and its world-wide subsidiaries had just 8,437 regular employees, and an additional 1,739 temporary or part-time contractors and employees, according to SEC filings. As of last September, Apple had approximately 46,600 full-time equivalent employees and an additional 2,800 full-time equivalent temporary employees and contractors.

Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com

Umeiona ile speech yake ya stanford university kwenye commencement?Ile ni historic.Jamaa alisema he learned how to live like everyday was his last day in this world.Very inspiring.Usiache kuisikiliza.Ile ya 2005.

 

[qwest]

kifo, kifo, kifo hakina huruma.

may he rip.

 

[luckman]

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary-by steve jobs

 

[Mamndenyi]

Umeondoka na akili yako, R.I.P. mkuu

 

[Mzee]

R. I.P steve.

 

[kajulikamo]

RIP steve jobs

 

[Somi]

[h=1]The Jobs legacy: Ease, elegance in technology[/h][h=2]'We just wanted to build the best thing we could build,' he once said[/h]



By Suzanne Choneymsnbc.com

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Steve Jobs will be remembered as a titan of business, of course. But for those of us who struggled decades ago to learn lines of code in order to create something as elementary as a letter on a computer, Jobs will forever be associated with making modern computing simple, seamless and satisfying.
The iconic co-founder of Apple, along with Steve Wozniak, helped create a funny-looking computer named the Apple I, then II, in the 1970s that became synonymous with style and ease of use, as did dozens of products that would follow over the years, including the Macintosh, iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad. With the creation of the iTunes Store and 99-cent song downloads in 2003, he upended the digital music business at a time when it could have easily tipped in favor of piracy, a direction it was headed.
By 2008, the iTunes Store was the leading source for consumers to buy digital music, and it spawned other online-buying websites that tried to follow its simple-to-use model. It also led to Apple's creation of the App Store in 2008 for buying programs and software for the iPhone, and this year, the Mac itself.

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The wireless world was completely revolutionized by the release of the iPhone in 2007. At that time, the word "smartphone" was largely equated with BlackBerrys, the standard bearer for the business class. Jobs saw the iPhone as a mobile computing device, and not just a phone, for everyone - something his competitors did not grasp at that time.
'I'll always stay connected with Apple'
Jobs' failing health - he was diagnosed with rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004, and had a liver transplant in 2009 - was obvious to all who saw photos of the world's most famous CEO in recent years in his trademark blue jeans and black turtleneck.
Despite taking a leave of absence from Apple earlier this year, he did make a few public appearances to unveil new products - still the showman that he was known to be, with his trademark, "And... one more thing"to deliver the big reveal, whether it was a new Mac or iPhone.
But at each of his subsequent public appearances, he seemed a little more frail and a little less energetic than the time before, the turtlenecks looser, the blue jeans baggier.

Paul Sakuma / AP file​

Steve Jobs was not quite 30 when he introduced the "new 'Macintosh' personal comptuer following a shareholder's meeting Jan. 24, 1984 in Cupertino, Ca. The Macintosh, priced at $2,495, is challenging IBM in the personal computer market" read the original caption for this photo.

Apple fans and followers were devastated by his letter of resignation Aug. 24, in which he wrote: "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come."
It was an ominous sign from the man who said, in 1985, "I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry."
But the threads of the tapestry were fraying. Jobs asked in his letter of resignation to remain as chairman of Apple's board, holding out, as he did so defiantly about many things - products, software, design, marketing - until the end.
Some had hoped Jobs would even make an appearance at Tuesday's unveiling of the new iPhone, nearly six weeks after his resignation. But he did not.
A telling speech
The year after his cancer diagnosis, when Jobs was 50, he gave thecommencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Stanford University. It's an oft-quoted speech because it was such a personal one.
Jobs the showman was quite the opposite when it came to family matters. But in the speech, he shared his thoughts about many personal things, including his own life - and death.
"No one wants to die," he said. "Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true."
That was typical Jobs: Dramatic and yet no-nonsense all in the same breath.
"This stuff doesn't change the world. It really doesn't," he said about technology in a Wired magazine interview, eight years before he was diagnosed with cancer.
"I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all."
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But Jobs changed technology and how the everyday person used it.
"His impact on the world of technology and American business can not be underestimated," said Tim Bajarin,a technology consultant who attended the Apple shareholders' meeting in January 1984, where the first Macintosh was unveiled.
"His simple vision of creating products that he would want - ones that were elegant and easy to use, is what drove him and Apple to spectacular success."

Paul Sakuma / AP file​

Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iPhone at the MacWorld Conference in San Francisco, in January 2007, six months before it went on sale. When it did, huge lines formed at Apple Stores around the country, a "tradition" that has continued with each subsequent iPhone release.

In a 1985 interview with Playboy, not long after the first Macintosh came out, Jobs said, "We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build."
Telling, too, were his remarks about the quality of the build of the Mac, which was - and still is - pricier than the average computer.
"When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it," he said in the interview. "You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."
'He basically went on his gut'
Ken Auletta, in a recent interview with CNBC, likened Jobs' legacy to that of inventor and scientist Thomas Edison's a century ago.

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[BAK]

Steve Jobs was born out of wedlock to a man name Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Simpson. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He has a biological sister name Mona Jandali

About the "i" it was first used with iMac in 1998. Jobs said at the launch that "i" meant internet, individual, instruct, inform, inspire.

In 2010 Jobs took a salary of $1, However, he owns some 5.5 million shares in the company which were worth (October 6, 2011) $1.8 billion at the closing price on that day of around $333 a share, a rise of more than 50% on the year.

 

[Webabu]

1.The lead mind behind the most successful company on the planet never graduated from college, in fact, he didn't even get close.
2.Jobs enrolled in Reed College in 1972. Jobs stayed at Reed (a liberal arts university in Portland, Oregon) for only one semester.
3.In his famous 2005 commencement speech to Stanford University, Jobs said of his time at Reed: "It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5 cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple."
4.When he was 23, Jobs and his high school girlfriend Chris Ann Brennan conceived a daughter, Lisa Brennan Jobs. She was born in 1978, just as Apple began picking up steam in the tech world. He and Brennan never married, and Jobs reportedly denied paternity for some time, going as far as stating that he was sterile in court documents.
5. In 1975, Jobs was tapped by Atarito work on the Pong-like game Breakout.He was reportedly offered $750 for his development work, with the possibility of an extra $100 for each chip eliminated from the game's final design. Jobs recruited Steve Wozniak (later one of Apple's other founders) to help him with the challenge. Wozniak managed to whittle the prototype's design down so much that Atari paid out a $5,000 bonus — but Jobs kept the bonus for himself, and paid his unsuspecting friend only $375, according to Wozniak's own autobiography.

 

[Kingdom_man]

If Cook is in a long term partnership, he's kept it well hidden. Given his brutal work schedule, though, it's hard to imagine how he'd find time. Still, he's got enough experience to have developed some preferences; our tech executive source claims Cook is into Asian guys, a tidbit that prompted another tech observer, with whom we shared the item, to propose some strategic matchmaking that would pair Cook with Google hotshot Ben Ling. It's an inspired match: Perhaps the coupling could build a bridge between two corporate nemeses.




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[Herbalist Dr MziziMkavu]

Tunakata nae Mzee Tim Cook aonyeshe maajabu yake kama alivyokuwa Mzee wetu Steve Jobs Mungu amuweke pema peponi.

 

[Herbalist Dr MziziMkavu]

Professional

How he got the job: Cook joined Apple in 1998, shortly after Jobs' return to the company, after withstanding Jobs' withering interview gauntlet. Jobs had rejected a string of other operations managers before meeting with Cook. In fact, one other executive from Cook's old company, Compaq, reportedly lasted only five minutes before Jobs walked out on him. Cook's "unflappable" demeanor may have been what sealed the deal with Jobs. "Steve is very focused on people he can

 

[Kingdom_man]

Professional

How he got the job: Cook joined Apple in 1998, shortly after Jobs' return to the company, after withstanding Jobs' withering interview gauntlet. Jobs had rejected a string of other operations managers before meeting with Cook. In fact, one other executive from Cook's old company, Compaq, reportedly lasted only five minutes before Jobs walked out on him. Cook's "unflappable" demeanor may have been what sealed the deal with Jobs. "Steve is very focused on people he can

Its like Steve Jobs knew something was NOT right with Tim cook in the first place!

 

[Herbalist Dr MziziMkavu]

Its like Steve Jobs knew something was NOT right with Tim cook in the first place!

Ni kweli inaonyesha kama Mzee Steve jobs kama anamwambia kitu Tim Cook oohh rafiki yangu mimi nikiondoka wewe utashika nafasi yangu ...................