The world loses a figure of the genius of Apple founder Steve Jobs. He died on Wednesday (05/10/2011) night in the United States at the age of 56 years. Apple has officially announced the death of Steve Jobs through its website.
“Apple lost a visionary and a creative genius, and the world lost a wonderful person. We were fortunate to meet and work with Steve really miss my dear friend and mentor inspiring. Steve left the company that can only be built by him, and his spirit will always block off the track, “Apple’s official statement on its website.
Steve Jobs could be considered one of the most influential of this century, both in business and technological innovation. He founded Apple in 1976, had left in 1986, and returned to be CEO in 2000. With his intelligence, Jobs created the most popular devices today, Mac, iPhone, iPhone and iPod.
Several groups of expressing grief over the death of Steve Jobs. Bill Gates said: “Me and Steve met almost 30 years ago and since then we became colleagues, competitors and friends, almost half of our life. Rarely has the world sees someone who has profound effects such as Steve. His influence will be felt generations the future. “
Wanting to convey the expressions of grief, thoughts, memories, and everything to do with Steve Jobs, Apple gave the generosity and allow anyone to send to an email address rememberingsteve@apple.com.
But before that, it’s good to know how to travel with Steve Jobs of Apple for almost half of his life.
- February 24, 1955 Steve Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco. Steve Jobs gave his parents care for others. Jobs nonbiologis then has two brothers, Paul and Clara employment.
- 1961 Family moved to California Jobs in territory that later became the site of Silicon Valley.
- 1968 Jobs in contact with Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett Packard (HP) to find spare parts for a frequency counter. Hewlett gave the parts work and internship opportunities.
- 1970 Wozniak met Steve Jobs who later founded Apple with Jobs.
- 1972 Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. She attended Reed College in Portland, but withdrew in the first half.
- 1974 began working as an engineer at Atari. Working at night, he asked Wozniak to help take care of the necessary materials for the prototype single-player Pong, the game is still Breakout. Jobs and Atari leave for a trip to India.
- 1976 The story begins. Wozniak founded Apple with Jobs and Ronald Wayne. In the same year, Apple sells the Apple I in kit form for $ 666.66 U.S. dollars.
- January 3, 1977 Apple to a company official.
- June 5, 1977 the Apple II was released, becoming the first commercial personal computer with a plastic housing and color graphics. Currently, both a first for Apple’s success.
- December 12, 1980 Apple went public. Steve Jobs has a large amount of 200 million U.S. dollars.
- January 24, 1984 for the Macintosh, first introduced.
- September 12, 1985 Jobs resigned from Apple. Then he founded NeXT Computer, which later became the next software through the sale of its 70 million U.S. dollars Apple. Proximal development and use as a server role of the World Wide Web first.
- February 3, 1986 Jobs bought the division Graphics Group at Lucasfilm to make it to Pixar Animation Studios. Jobs bought U.S. $ 10 million.
- Next Team 1988 he published his first computer.
- 1991 Apple and IBM announce development cooperation of processors and software for the first PowerBook laptop, the precursor of laptops.
- 1993 Apple released the Newton, the first handheld computer with a pen. Apple loses money.
- 1993 Next stop, the hardware business and focus on the software. Then computer software Next.
- 1994 Apple introduced the Power Macintosh PowerPC processor-based IBM and Motorola have done. Apple also offers a Mac software license to another party to create the clone.
- 1995 The cloning of the first Mac, Microsoft Windows 95, out on the market.
- November 29, 1995 to become President and CEO of Pixar. Then, Jobs had the Pixar animated film debuted with the release of Toy Story, starring Tom Hanks as the voice of filling.
- December 10, 1996 at Apple as a consultant, bought NeXT for $ 429 million U.S. dollars.
- July 9, 1997 jobs for “acting head” of Apple.
- August 6, 1997 Jobs announced Microsoft’s investment of U.S. $ 150 million, following collaboration with Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer for Mac.
- November 10, 1997 Jobs unveiled the Apple Store, which allows consumers to buy products directly from Apple online store.
- January 8, 1998 Apple again a profitable company.
- May 6, 1998 Jobs introduced the iMac.
- 2000 Jobs returned to Apple’s CEO.
- January 9, 2001 Jobs introduced the iTunes which then become exclusive to Mac users
- March 24, 2001 Apple introduced the first version of Mac OS X, called Cheetah.
- May 19, 2001 Opening of the first time in the Tysons Corner Apple retail and Glendale. So far, there are 330 Apple stores in the world.
- October 23, 2001 Jobs introduced the iPod.
- July 17, 2002 Apple introduced the iPod compatible with Windows for the first time.
- April 28, 2003 Apple iTunes is officially in the United States. Until the year 2010 and 10 billion songs downloaded through iTunes.
- October 16, 2003 Jobs introduces the “hell froze up” by introducing compatibility with Windows iTunes.
- August 1, 2004 Jobs underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer.
- January 11, 2005 Apple introduced the iPod Shuffle.
- June 6, 2005 Jobs announced the change of IBM chips to Intel Core Duo with the launch of the MacBook Pro and iMac.
- September 7, 2005 Jobs introduced the iPod Nano.
- October 12, 2005 Jobs unveiled the iPod with video.
- January 13, 2006 the capitalization of Apple beat Dell.
- January 25, 2006 was bought by Disney Pixar value of U.S. $ 7.4 million. Jobs became one of the owners.
- January 9, 2007 Uninstall the name of “PC” from Apple. Next, Jobs introduced the iPhone.
- September 5, 2007 Jobs unveiled the iPod Touch.
- January 15, 2008 Jobs introduces the Apple Store might be an update of iTunes media. On the other hand, Jobs also introduced the MacBook Air.
- June 9, 2008 Jobs introduced MobileMe, Apple’s cloud services offer first.
- January 14, 2009 Labour took time out of action for six months.
- January 27, 2010 Jobs introduced the iPad. Apple iPad managed to sell 500,000 in the first week after launch.
- November 16, 2010 Jobs convinced Apple and EMI to make a Beatles album on iTunes.
- January 17, 2011 Jobs retook the absence of 6 months.
- February 10, 2011 Apple began selling the iPhone through Verizon Wireless.
- February 15, 2011 Apple launched a subscription to the media at the Apple Store.
- March 2, 2011 Jobs made a surprise by appearing at the launch of iPhone 2.
- June 6, 2011 Jobs gave a talk on “Apple Worldwide Developers Conference.” Today, in a moment of the appearance of recent work in public.
- August 9, 2011 in Apple become the most profitable company in the United States with a market capitalization of 337.17 billion U.S. dollars.
- August 24, 2011, Steve Jobs resigned as Apple’s CEO.
- October 4, 2011 Apple launched the iPhone 4s
- October 5th, the day after the launch of iPhone 4S, Steve Jobs had died.
Rest in Peace Steve Jobs. We will missing you already.

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