seattle - apple inc . , maker of personal computers and the iphone , reported annual second - quarter profit wednesday after the closing bell . the next is a table of key developments related to that period . list : in january , apple employee larry roles addressing the matter of his increasingly gaunt appearance — 1998 . he first confirmed it was caused by an easily meningitis hormone imbalance , and that he would remain at the company . the next week , jobs , a cancer survivor , revealed the case was more complicated and said he would take a physician leave of administration until the end of june . chief technical officer peter cook is runs the factory in his absence .
Steve Jobs is the creator of Apple.