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Apple founder Steve Jobs dies
* From: news.com.au
* October 06, 2011 11:21AM
APPLE today said founder Steve Jobs has died, aged 56.
Mr Jobs co-founded Apple Computer in 1976 and, with his childhood friend Steve Wozniak, marketed what was considered the world's first personal computer, the Apple II.
Industry watchers called him a master innovator - changing the worlds of computing, recorded music and communications, ABC News in the US reported.
Brilliant and demanding, charismatic and prickly, Mr Jobs was the visionary behind the Macintosh computer, iPhone, iPod and iPad, raising all to the status of universal must-haves.
Their innovative sleek designs and intuitive systems reflect the singular background of the man who created them - not a buttoned-down businessman but a college dropout, vegetarian, Buddhist, black turtleneck and blue jeans guy.
One of his many gifts was the ability to anticipate what kind of information technology consumers were going to want.
He had taken three medical leaves of absence in the last seven years. The first came in 2004 when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a usually fatal form, but he managed to recover with treatment.
He also underwent a liver transplant in 2009.
In January 2011 he announced he was going on medical leave and hoped "to be back as soon as I can."
But his return never came. On August 24 he resigned as chief executive of the technology giant, saying "the day has come" for him to step down.
"I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know," he said in his resignation letter. "Unfortunately, that day has come."
His cause of death is not yet known.
Apple released a statement saying: "We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today."
"Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve."
"His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts."
Mr Jobs is survived by his wife, Laurene Powell, and four children.
His life was as unconventional as the man himself. He was born February 24, 1955 in San Francisco to Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian graduate student who later taught political science, and Joanne Schieble, an American graduate student.
The unmarried couple gave him up for adoption and he was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California.
Later, Mr Jobs' birth parents married and in 1957 had a daughter, his biological sister, who is the novelist Mona Simpson. The siblings first met as adults.
After attending high school in Cupertino, California, Mr Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but dropped out after one semester. However, he continued auditing classes, including one in calligraphy that he later said inspired the Mac's multiple typefaces.
At 20, he made a spiritual pilgrimage to India and at 21, he and Steve Wozniak, a friend and fellow college dropout, founded Apple Computer in the Jobs family's garage.
Under his direction, Apple introduced the first Macintosh computer in 1984.
But just a year later, following an internal power struggle, Mr Jobs left Apple and started NeXT computer company and then co-founded what became computer animation giant Pixar, which went on to produce such box office bonanzas as Toy Story and Finding Nemo.
In 1996, Apple bought NeXT for $US429 million and Mr Jobs returned, serving as CEO since 1997. In 2006, Walt Disney bought Pixar in a $US7.4 billion deal.
After the Macintosh, Mr Jobs' subsequent Apple launches included the iPod in 2001, iTunes in 2003, iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2010.
In 1991, Mr Jobs - who reportedly once dated singer Joan Baez - married Ms Powell in a ceremony conducted by a Zen Buddhist monk. They have three children together and Mr Jobs also has a daughter, born in 1978, from another relationship.
According to his biography on the Apple website - a sparse document that runs all of three paragraphs and refers to the Apple CEO by his first name - "Steve grew up in the apricot orchards which later became known as Silicon Valley, and still lives there with his family".
But if he did not stray far from home, Mr Jobs still achieved one of his reported goals, "I want to put a ding in the universe".
His death comes the day after Apple unveiled the new iPhone 4S at its headquarters in Cupertino, California.
Apple unveiled the new smartphone without Mr Jobs, with the company's new chief executive, Tim Cook, taking the reins for the announcement.
With Newscore and AP.
Apple founder Steve Jobs dies
* From: news.com.au
* October 06, 2011 11:21AM
APPLE today said founder Steve Jobs has died, aged 56.
Mr Jobs co-founded Apple Computer in 1976 and, with his childhood friend Steve Wozniak, marketed what was considered the world's first personal computer, the Apple II.
Industry watchers called him a master innovator - changing the worlds of computing, recorded music and communications, ABC News in the US reported.
Brilliant and demanding, charismatic and prickly, Mr Jobs was the visionary behind the Macintosh computer, iPhone, iPod and iPad, raising all to the status of universal must-haves.
Their innovative sleek designs and intuitive systems reflect the singular background of the man who created them - not a buttoned-down businessman but a college dropout, vegetarian, Buddhist, black turtleneck and blue jeans guy.
One of his many gifts was the ability to anticipate what kind of information technology consumers were going to want.
He had taken three medical leaves of absence in the last seven years. The first came in 2004 when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a usually fatal form, but he managed to recover with treatment.
He also underwent a liver transplant in 2009.
In January 2011 he announced he was going on medical leave and hoped "to be back as soon as I can."
But his return never came. On August 24 he resigned as chief executive of the technology giant, saying "the day has come" for him to step down.
"I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know," he said in his resignation letter. "Unfortunately, that day has come."
His cause of death is not yet known.
Apple released a statement saying: "We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today."
"Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve."
"His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts."
Mr Jobs is survived by his wife, Laurene Powell, and four children.
His life was as unconventional as the man himself. He was born February 24, 1955 in San Francisco to Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian graduate student who later taught political science, and Joanne Schieble, an American graduate student.
The unmarried couple gave him up for adoption and he was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California.
Later, Mr Jobs' birth parents married and in 1957 had a daughter, his biological sister, who is the novelist Mona Simpson. The siblings first met as adults.
After attending high school in Cupertino, California, Mr Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but dropped out after one semester. However, he continued auditing classes, including one in calligraphy that he later said inspired the Mac's multiple typefaces.
At 20, he made a spiritual pilgrimage to India and at 21, he and Steve Wozniak, a friend and fellow college dropout, founded Apple Computer in the Jobs family's garage.
Under his direction, Apple introduced the first Macintosh computer in 1984.
But just a year later, following an internal power struggle, Mr Jobs left Apple and started NeXT computer company and then co-founded what became computer animation giant Pixar, which went on to produce such box office bonanzas as Toy Story and Finding Nemo.
In 1996, Apple bought NeXT for $US429 million and Mr Jobs returned, serving as CEO since 1997. In 2006, Walt Disney bought Pixar in a $US7.4 billion deal.
After the Macintosh, Mr Jobs' subsequent Apple launches included the iPod in 2001, iTunes in 2003, iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2010.
In 1991, Mr Jobs - who reportedly once dated singer Joan Baez - married Ms Powell in a ceremony conducted by a Zen Buddhist monk. They have three children together and Mr Jobs also has a daughter, born in 1978, from another relationship.
According to his biography on the Apple website - a sparse document that runs all of three paragraphs and refers to the Apple CEO by his first name - "Steve grew up in the apricot orchards which later became known as Silicon Valley, and still lives there with his family".
But if he did not stray far from home, Mr Jobs still achieved one of his reported goals, "I want to put a ding in the universe".
His death comes the day after Apple unveiled the new iPhone 4S at its headquarters in Cupertino, California.
Apple unveiled the new smartphone without Mr Jobs, with the company's new chief executive, Tim Cook, taking the reins for the announcement.
With Newscore and AP.
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