On Thursday 6 October 2011, 7:51 AM
REUTERS - U.S. President Barack Obama
joined an outpouring of tributes to Steve Jobs , calling the Apple co-founder a
visionary and great American innovator.
"Steve was among the greatest of
American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe
he could change the world, and talented enough to do it," Obama said of
Jobs, who died on Wednesday.
The U.S. President was joined by
political, technology, entertainment and business leaders around the world in
paying tribute to Jobs. A selection:
BILL GATES, MICROSOFT CO-FOUNDER AND
CHAIRMAN
"Steve and I first met nearly 30
years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of
more than half our lives. The world rarely sees someone who has had the
profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many
generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's
been an insanely great honor."
MARK ZUCKERBERG, FACEBOOK FOUNDER AND
CEO, ON FACEBOOK
"Steve, thank you for being a
mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the
world. I will miss you.
BOB IGER, CEO OF WALT DISNEY CO
" Steve Jobs was a great friend as
well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he
created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he
inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined. Steve was such an
'original,' with a thoroughly creative, imaginative mind that defined an era.
Despite all he accomplished, it feels like he was just getting started."
MITT ROMNEY, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL
HOPEFUL, ON TWITTER
" Steve Jobs is an inspiration to
American entrepreneurs. He will be missed."
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, FORMER
CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR, ON TWITTER
"Steve lived the California Dream
every day of his life and he changed the world and inspired all of us."
MARK CUBAN, ENTREPRENEUR, ON TWITTER
"The PC era is officially over.
#RIP #STEVEJOBS
INVESTOR MARC ANDREESSEN
"Steve was the best of the best.
Like Mozart and Picasso, he may never be equalled."
PAUL ALLEN, CO-FOUNDER OF MICROSOFT
"We've lost a unique tech pioneer
and auteur who knew how to make amazingly great products. Steve fought a long
battle against tough odds in a very brave way. He kept doing amazing things in
the face of all that adversity. As someone who has had his own medical
challenges, I couldn't help but be encouraged by how he persevered."
MICHAEL DELL, CEO OF DELL INC
"Today the world lost a visionary
leader, the technology industry lost an iconic legend and I lost a friend and
fellow
founder. The legacy of Steve Jobs will
be remembered for generations to come."
LARRY PAGE, CEO OF GOOGLE, ON GOOGLE+
"He was a great man with
incredible achievements and amazing brilliance. He always seemed to be able to
say in very few words what you actually should have been thinking before you
thought it. His focus on the user experience above all else has always been an
inspiration to me."
STEVE CASE, FOUNDER OF AOL, ON TWITTER
"I feel honored to have known
Steve Jobs . He was the most innovative entrepreneur of our generation. His
legacy will live on for the ages."
JEFF BEWKES, CEO OF TIME WARNER
"The world is a better place
because of Steve, and the stories our company tells have been made richer by
the products he created. He was a dynamic and fearless competitor,
collaborator, and friend. In a society that has seen incredible technological
innovation during our lifetimes, Steve may be the one true icon whose legacy
will be remembered for a thousand years."
DICK COSTOLO, CEO OF TWITTER, ON
TWITTER
Tributes pour in for Steve Jobs , dead at 56
" Once in a rare while, somebody
comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new
standard of measurement. #RIPSteveJobs"
ARTHUR SULZBERGER, CHAIRMAN OF THE NEW
YORK TIMES CO
" Steve Jobs was a visionary and a
wonderful friend of The New York Times. He pushed the boundaries of how all
providers of news and information interact with our users. I am among the many
who deeply regret his passing."
JOHN RICCITIELLO, CEO OF ELECTRONIC
ARTS
"Steve was one of a kind. For many
of us working in technology and entertainment, Steve was a new kind of hero
that lead with big, bold moves and would not settle for less than perfection.
He is the best role model for a leader that aspires to be great."
SPIKE LEE, PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/ACTOR, ON
TWITTER
"VISIONARIES are always called
CRAZY in the beginning. A VISIONARY sees things that everybody else says is
IMPOSSIBLE, sees a World that People can't invision (sic)-MAC, IPOD, IPAD,
IPHONE, ITUNES and PIXAR. I have nothing but Love for Mr. Jobs and Apple, they
have always given me and my films L-O-V-E. Peace and Blessings to his family”. “Thanks
Yahooo!"
Jobs "May Never Be Equalled"
On Thursday 6 October 2011,
10:30 AM
Passionate,
prickly, and deemed irreplaceable by many Apple fans and investors, Steve Jobs
made a life defying conventions and expectations.
And despite years of poor health, his death on Wednesday at the age of 56 prompted a global gasp as many people remembered how much he had done to transform the worlds of computing, music and mobile phones, changing the way people communicate and access information and entertainment.
"The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come," said Microsoft co-founder and long-time rival Bill Gates.
"For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor."
The founder of Apple Inc died on Wednesday in Palo Alto, surrounded by his family. The circumstances of his passing were unclear, but Jobs has had a long battle with cancer and other health issues.
Jobs' family thanked many for their prayers during the last year of Steve's illness.
A college dropout, Jobs floated through India in search of spiritual guidance prior to founding Apple - a name he suggested to his friend and co-founder Steve Wozniak after a visit to a commune in Oregon he referred to as an "apple orchard."
With his passion for minimalist design and marketing genius, Jobs changed the course of personal computing during two stints at Apple and then brought a revolution to the mobile market.
The iconic iPod, the iPhone - dubbed the "Jesus phone" for its quasi-religious following - and the iPad are the creation of a man who was known for his near-obsessive control of the product development process.
"Most mere mortals cannot understand a person like Steve Jobs," said bestselling author and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki, a former Apple employee, in a recent interview. He considers Jobs "the greatest CEO in the history of man", adding that he just had "a different operating system."
Charismatic, visionary, ruthless, perfectionist, dictator - these are some of the words that people have used to describe Jobs, who may have been the biggest dreamer the technology world has ever known, but also was a hard-edged businessman and negotiator through and through.
"Steve was the best of the best. Like Mozart and Picasso, he may never be equalled," said Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and co-founder of Netscape Communications.
Microsoft's Gates had called Jobs the most inspiring person in the tech industry and President Barack Obama held him up as the embodiment of the American Dream.
It's hard to imagine a bigger success story than Steve Jobs, but rejection, failure and bad fate were part and parcel of who he was. Jobs was given away at birth, driven out of Apple in the mid-80s and struck with cancer when he finally had regained the top of the mountain.
He resigned as CEO of Apple Inc on August 24 - saying he could no longer fulfill the duties - and briefly served as chairman before his death.
Jobs grew up with an adopted family in Silicon Valley, which was turning from orchards to homes for workers at Lockheed and other defense and technology companies.
Electronics friend Bill Fernandez introduced him to boy engineer Wozniak, and the two Steves began a friendship that eventually bred Apple Computer.
"Woz is a brilliant engineer, but he is not really an entrepreneur, and that's where Jobs came in," recently remembered Fernandez, who was the first employee at Apple.
Wozniak earlier this year said that his goal was only to design hardware and he had no interest in running Apple.
"Steve Jobs' role was defined -- you've got to learn to be an executive in every division of the company so you can be the world's most important person some day. That was his goal," joked Wozniak, who is still listed as an employee, even though he has not worked at Apple for years.
Awful-Tasting Medicine
Jobs created Apple twice - once when he founded it and the second time after a return credited with saving the company, which now vies with Exxon Mobil as the most valuable publicly traded corporation in the United States.
Every day to him was "a new adventure in the company," Jay Elliot, a former senior vice president at Apple who worked very closely with Jobs in the eighties, said earlier this year, adding that he was "almost like a child" when it came to his inquisitiveness.
He was highly intolerant of company politics and bureaucracy, Elliot noted.
But the inspiring Jobs came with a lot of hard edges, oftentimes alienating colleagues and early investors with his my-way-or-the-highway dictums and plans that were generally ahead of their time.
Elliot was a witness to the acrimony between Jobs and former Apple Chief Executive John Sculley who often clashed on ideas, products and the direction of the company.
The dispute came to a head at Apple's first major sales meeting in Hawaii in 1985 where the two "just blew up against each other," Elliot said.
Jobs left soon after, saying he was fired.
"It was awful-tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life's gonna hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith," Jobs told a Stanford graduating class in 2005.
He returned to Apple about a decade after he left, working as a consultant. Soon he was running it, in what has been called Jobs' second act.
Jobs reinvented the technology world four or five times, first with the Apple II, a beautiful personal computer in the 1970s; then in the 1980s with the Macintosh, driven by a mouse and presenting a clean screen that made computing inviting; the ubiquitous iPod debuted in 2001, the iPhone in 2007 and in 2010 the iPad, which a year after it was introduced outsold the Mac.
Thanks…(Reuters)
And despite years of poor health, his death on Wednesday at the age of 56 prompted a global gasp as many people remembered how much he had done to transform the worlds of computing, music and mobile phones, changing the way people communicate and access information and entertainment.
"The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come," said Microsoft co-founder and long-time rival Bill Gates.
"For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor."
The founder of Apple Inc died on Wednesday in Palo Alto, surrounded by his family. The circumstances of his passing were unclear, but Jobs has had a long battle with cancer and other health issues.
Jobs' family thanked many for their prayers during the last year of Steve's illness.
A college dropout, Jobs floated through India in search of spiritual guidance prior to founding Apple - a name he suggested to his friend and co-founder Steve Wozniak after a visit to a commune in Oregon he referred to as an "apple orchard."
With his passion for minimalist design and marketing genius, Jobs changed the course of personal computing during two stints at Apple and then brought a revolution to the mobile market.
The iconic iPod, the iPhone - dubbed the "Jesus phone" for its quasi-religious following - and the iPad are the creation of a man who was known for his near-obsessive control of the product development process.
"Most mere mortals cannot understand a person like Steve Jobs," said bestselling author and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki, a former Apple employee, in a recent interview. He considers Jobs "the greatest CEO in the history of man", adding that he just had "a different operating system."
Charismatic, visionary, ruthless, perfectionist, dictator - these are some of the words that people have used to describe Jobs, who may have been the biggest dreamer the technology world has ever known, but also was a hard-edged businessman and negotiator through and through.
"Steve was the best of the best. Like Mozart and Picasso, he may never be equalled," said Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and co-founder of Netscape Communications.
Microsoft's Gates had called Jobs the most inspiring person in the tech industry and President Barack Obama held him up as the embodiment of the American Dream.
It's hard to imagine a bigger success story than Steve Jobs, but rejection, failure and bad fate were part and parcel of who he was. Jobs was given away at birth, driven out of Apple in the mid-80s and struck with cancer when he finally had regained the top of the mountain.
He resigned as CEO of Apple Inc on August 24 - saying he could no longer fulfill the duties - and briefly served as chairman before his death.
Jobs grew up with an adopted family in Silicon Valley, which was turning from orchards to homes for workers at Lockheed and other defense and technology companies.
Electronics friend Bill Fernandez introduced him to boy engineer Wozniak, and the two Steves began a friendship that eventually bred Apple Computer.
"Woz is a brilliant engineer, but he is not really an entrepreneur, and that's where Jobs came in," recently remembered Fernandez, who was the first employee at Apple.
Wozniak earlier this year said that his goal was only to design hardware and he had no interest in running Apple.
"Steve Jobs' role was defined -- you've got to learn to be an executive in every division of the company so you can be the world's most important person some day. That was his goal," joked Wozniak, who is still listed as an employee, even though he has not worked at Apple for years.
Awful-Tasting Medicine
Jobs created Apple twice - once when he founded it and the second time after a return credited with saving the company, which now vies with Exxon Mobil as the most valuable publicly traded corporation in the United States.
Every day to him was "a new adventure in the company," Jay Elliot, a former senior vice president at Apple who worked very closely with Jobs in the eighties, said earlier this year, adding that he was "almost like a child" when it came to his inquisitiveness.
He was highly intolerant of company politics and bureaucracy, Elliot noted.
But the inspiring Jobs came with a lot of hard edges, oftentimes alienating colleagues and early investors with his my-way-or-the-highway dictums and plans that were generally ahead of their time.
Elliot was a witness to the acrimony between Jobs and former Apple Chief Executive John Sculley who often clashed on ideas, products and the direction of the company.
The dispute came to a head at Apple's first major sales meeting in Hawaii in 1985 where the two "just blew up against each other," Elliot said.
Jobs left soon after, saying he was fired.
"It was awful-tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life's gonna hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith," Jobs told a Stanford graduating class in 2005.
He returned to Apple about a decade after he left, working as a consultant. Soon he was running it, in what has been called Jobs' second act.
Jobs reinvented the technology world four or five times, first with the Apple II, a beautiful personal computer in the 1970s; then in the 1980s with the Macintosh, driven by a mouse and presenting a clean screen that made computing inviting; the ubiquitous iPod debuted in 2001, the iPhone in 2007 and in 2010 the iPad, which a year after it was introduced outsold the Mac.
Thanks…(Reuters)
Milestones in a tech legend's
journey
, On Thursday 6 October 2011, 12:00 PM
Washington,
Oct 6 (IANS) Apple's visionary co-founder Steve Jobs, who died after a long
battle with cancer Wednesday, is credited with turning the once loss making
company into one of the world's largest tech giants. Here are the milestones:
1955: Stephen Paul
Jobs born Feb 24.
1972: Jobs
enrols in Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but drops out after a semester.
1974: Works for
video game maker Atari and attends meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with
Steve Wozniak, a high school friend.
1976: Apple Computer
is formed on April Fools' Day, shortly after Wozniak and Jobs create a new
computer circuit board in a Silicon Valley garage. The Apple I later goes on
sale for $666.66.
1977: Apple is
incorporated by its founders and a group of venture capitalists. It unveils
Apple II, the first PC to generate colour graphics.
1980: Apple
goes public, raising $110 million in one of the biggest IPOs.
1983: Apple
starts selling the 'Lisa', a desktop computer for businesses with a graphical
user interface.
1984: Apple debuts
the Macintosh personal computer.
1985: Jobs and
CEO John Sculley clash, leading to Jobs' resignation. Wozniak also resigns.
1986: Jobs
founds Next, a company making high-end machines for universities. He buys Pixar
from Star Wars creator George Lucas for $10 million.
1991: Apple and
IBM announce an alliance to develop new PC microprocessors and software.
1994: Apple
introduces Power Macintosh based on the PowerPC chip it developed with IBM and
Motorola. Apple licenses its operating software, allowing others to clone the
Mac.
1995: The first
Mac clones go on sale. Microsoft releases Windows 95. Pixar's Toy Story, the
first commercial computer-animated feature, hits theatres.
1996: Apple
buys Next for $430 million.
1997: Jobs
returns to Apple after the company records losses of more than $1.8 billion.
CEO Gil Amelio is pushed out. Jobs ends Mac clones.
1998: Apple
returns to profitability and unveils the iMac desktop computer.
2000: Jobs is
named CEO of Apple.
2001: The first
iPod goes on sale, as do computers with OS X, the modern Mac operating system
based on Next software.
2003: Apple
launches the iTunes music store with 200,000 songs at 99c each. Users can also
buy and download music, audiobooks, movies and TV shows online.
2004: Jobs
undergoes surgery for a rare but curable form of pancreatic cancer.
2006: Disney
buys Pixar for $7.4 billion. Jobs becomes Disney's largest sole shareholder and
much of his wealth is derived from this sale.
2007: Apple
releases the iPhone.
2008: Apple
opens its App Store as an update to iTunes amid mounting speculation that Jobs
is ill.
2009: Jobs
returns from medical leave in June after undergoing a liver transplant.
2010: Apple
sells 15 million iPads in nine months and has an 84 percent share of the tablet
market by year's end.
2011: Apple
launches the iPad 2 on March 2.
2011: Jobs'
resignation as CEO announced Aug 24. He is replaced by Tim Cook, Apple's chief
operating officer.
2011: Jobs dies
Oct 5 at age of 56 after battle with pancreatic cancer.
(Arun Kumar can
be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)-THANKS
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