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Steve Jobs – a controversial legend, visionary and quirky co-founder of the company Apple. He was born on February 24, 1955, and died as a result of a serious illness on October 5, 2011. His impact on the technological but also the entertainment industry, advertising and pop culture was very significant. Let's map out what his journey looked like (not only) Applewhat actually changed the world according to many.

Apple beginnings

Steve Jobs,  Steve Wozniak and Mike Markkula: these three names were responsible for the birth of a series of computers in the second half of the 1970s Apple II. It was the first ever commercially successful personal computer product line, ending in 1983 with the Lisa, the first computer with a graphical user interface controlled by a mouse. A year after Lisa's relative failure, a legend named Macintosh was born.

Rise and fall

But the euphoria from the Macintosh didn't last long. In 1985 Jobs after long and intense disagreements Apple left. It is still not very clear to this day how much he was truly "left" and how much it was his own - albeit perhaps impulsive - decision. After his departure, Steve did not idle away - he founded his own computer company NeXT, focused on higher education and business, and later bought the film company Pixar. After a series of smaller projects and various trials and errors, the company released the huge box office blockbuster Toy Story in 1995. A year after the success of Toy Story, the company's failures led to Apple his leadership to redemption NeXTui with Jobs. He served as interim director from 1997 to 2000, then took on the position full-time.

We will rule the world

When Jobs returned to the apple helm, Apple was focused overwhelmingly on computers. However, the world was then dominated by PCs with an operating system Windows and few believed that significantly more expensive apple machines would find their place in the limelight. At the end of the nineties, you could find these computers mainly in the creative industry, advertising, design, or the film industry.

But few thought that it was not necessarily computers that would get the mark Apple to a larger number of users. In 2001, the iPod appeared. Although it wasn't the world's first pocket player, it was the iPod that made many people ditch their Walkmans and Discmans. The promise of thousands of songs in your pocket sounded great. The iPod began to change the way people listened to and shared music.

He soon started Apple to release products that almost everyone wanted. In 2007, with his first iPhonemanaged to revolutionize the smartphone field, and Steve Jobs could thus claim another triumphant victory. After three years, the company came Apple with the iPad, which many people thought was actually useless, but countless users wanted it anyway, and the iPad became one of the most successful Apple products: in March 2011 it had Apple on account of 15 million apple tablets sold.

A lost battle

But a shadow slowly crept into the series of successes in the form of Jobs' serious oneThe public began to worry about the health of the CEO of the Cupertino giant around 2006, when Jobs' appearance on WWDC indicated that something was wrong. Employedanci AppThey had known about Jobs' illness since 2004. Steve Jobs He tried various traditional and alternative ways to recover, but the disease was stronger. On August 24, 2011, Jobs resigned from his position as CEO of the company, and on October 5 of the same year, he died from the consequences of his illness.

Apple without Jobs

Importance of Steve Jobs for Apple cannot be underestimated under any circumstances. Jobs for Apple meant a lot, in both a good and bad sense of the word. Many remember him as a fierce perfectionist with an inflated ego who didn't care much about the feelings of others. But he was also remembered as a visionary with an incredible ability to properly present and sell his products. Under the leadership of Steve Jobs, Apple was founded in Appou a series of innovations and new products. Steve Job was not only a visionary, but also a skilled entrepreneur, a creative person, and – perhaps surprisingly for some – a very good friend. What would you Apple do you think he should have taken from his link?

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