Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs (24 Februar 1955 − 5 October 2011) wis an American business magnate an inventor. He is weel kent for being the co-foonder an chief executive officer o Apple. Jobs an aa previously served as chief executive o Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member o the board o The Walt Disney Company in 2006, follaein the acquisition o Pixar bi Disney.

In the late 1970s, Jobs, wi Apple co-foonder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, an ithers, designed, developed, an marketit ane o the first commercially successful lines o personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs wis amang the first tae see the commercial potential o the moose-driven graphical uiser interface which led tae the creation o the Macintosh. Jobs an a team o ingineers visit Xerox PARC, whaur they see a demo o moose an graphical uiser interface Efter losin a pouer struggle wi the board o directors in 1985, Jobs resigned frae Apple an foondit NeXT, a computer platform development company specializin in the heicher education an business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyoot o NeXT brocht Jobs back tae the company he co-foondit, an he served as its CEO frae 1997 tae 2011.

In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics diveesion o Lucasfilm Ltd which wis spun aff as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO an majority sharehaulder at 50.1 percent till its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2006. Consequently Jobs became Disney's lairgest individual shareholder at 7 percent an a member o Disney's Board o Directors.January 25, 2006 , rediff.com   On August 24, 2011, Jobs annoonced his resignation frae his role as Apple's CEO.

On October 5, 2011, Jobs dee'd in Palo Alto, Californie at age 56 o pancreatic cancer.

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