Remembering Steve Jobs from a Historical Perspective
October 7, 2011
News Worldwide — Steve Jobs, a visionary, tremendously talented and one of the most celebrated greatest American CEO of his time, Co-founder and former CEO of the world’s most renowned technological giant Apple Inc. died “peacefully” surrounded by his family at his home at the age of 56 on Wednesday October 5, 2011. Steve Jobs Death has triggered online pouring of tributes and condolences.
History of Jobs
Steve Jobs was born in 1955 to Abdulfattah John Jandali and Joanne Schieble (Job’s biological parents) in San Francisco. His parents gave him up for adoption when he was born. Paul and Clara a couple from Mountain View California adopted him shortly in February 1955. The couple moved to Palo Alto California due to Job’s dislikes of his school. In Palo Alto he attended Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School. After graduation in 1972 Jobs joined Reed College in Portland, Oregon where he spent only one semester and dropped out. In 1974 Jobs was hired by Atari, a manufacturer of video games.
Steve Jobs along with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founded Apple in 1976. The first CEO of Apple was Mike Scott recruited by Steve in 1978. Steve recruited John Sculley to become the second CEO of Apple just a year before Steve introduced “Macintosh”, on January 24, 1984 in Apple’s annual meeting of shareholders. Macintosh became a commercially successful computer that introduced a graphic user interface for the first time which was replicated by other companies later on. Due to some working relationship problems with Sculley Steve was relieved of his job in May 1985.
After being hired by NEXT in 1985 and staying there till 1996, Steve made it back to Apple when NEXT was acquired by Apple in 1997 for $429 million. Steve became a formal interim CEO in September 1997 after Gil Amelio’s drive out in July. Steve became a permanent CEO of Apple in 2000. As Steve’s health began deteriorating rapidly throughout the decade he resigned as a CEO in august 2011 but stayed as Chairman of the board.
Health Issues and Death.
Steve was diagnosed with a rare cancerous tumor in his pancreas in mid 2004. After undergoing a pancreaticoduodenectomy in July 2004 the tumor seemed to have been removed. His resistances against his doctor’s recommendations made his health deteriorate at a rapid pace. Rumors about his health would come alive each time he would make an appearance at an expo appearing to be weak and thin or assigning someone else for briefing on a product instead of him. As the speculations became tougher to thwart, Steve made a statement on January 5, 2009 on Apple.com in which he said that he had been suffering from some sort of hormonal imbalance for a long time. On January 14th 2009 he said that “Complexity of my health issues have exceeded my expectations” and took a six month leave. Tim Cook took his place as CEO of Apple until Steve recovered completely. Fate kept playing with Steve when his prognosis was stated as ‘excellent” after he had a liver transplant in April 2009 at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis, Tennessee.
Steve returned to Apple after the transplant on January 17th 2011 and made appearances at iPad 2 and iCloud launch event and other similar events until he couldn’t carry on and resigned from his role as CEO on August 24th 2011. Steve’s family made a statement on October 5, 2011 that Steve Jobs “died peacefully today”. Copyright © 2011
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