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Steve Jobs—the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple Inc—was an American entrepreneur, marketer and inventor. He is widely regarded as a charismatic pioneer of personal computing.
The company
revolutionized the world of personal computing with the user-friendly and
intuitive operating system of the Macintosh (launched during the 1984 Super
Bowl with an advertisement directed by Ridley Scott).
The following year
Steve Jobs was fired from Apple. He then bought The Computer Graphics Group,
which under its new name Pixar produced innovative computer animations. In 1991
the Pixar signed an agreement with Disney to produce a series of feature films,
starting with Toy Story (1995), the
first feature-length computer-animated film. Toy Story earned over £361 million worldwide, and is considered to be one of the best films of its type.
In 1996 Jobs
returned to Apple as CEO, and two years later the iMac was launched.
The iPod MP3 player
followed in 2001, the iPhone in 2007 and the iPad in 2010. The software music
player iTunes evolved into an online music, movie and software store, playing a
major part in popularizing “legal” downloading.
Steve Jobs died
from pancreatic cancer in 2011 and was posthumously awarded the Grammy Trustees
Award at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in 2012 for his “significant
contribution to the field of recording”.
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