In recent years, in addition to striving to create a number of new devices, Jobs also battling pancreatic cancer since 2004 menderanya. Disease that causes the body looks crisp Jobs robust lately.
Steve Jobs, founder and inventor of gadgets in the company's flagship Apple looks skinny in the last few photos. In fact, in a photo several years ago, he still looks a bit "beefy" and his smile looks cheerful.
"With energy, passion and intelligence of a brilliant, Steve is the source of many innovations that enrich our lives. The world became better because of Steve," reads the announcement of Apple about the death.
Jobs left the company in a remarkable triumph. Corporate profits with the Macintosh and iPhone as the flagship product of this reach dozens of billion dollars.
Jobs left the sadness for the death of the American public, including President Barack Obama. In a statement, Obama said that Jobs is one of the country's best innovators. With the results of his work, said Obama, Jobs showed the spirit of Americans.
"He is someone who dared to think different, just dare to believe that he is able to change the world, and talented enough to make that happen," Obama said in a statement, quoted from page Sun Times.
Colleagues at once the biggest rivals Jobs, the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, also expressed deep condolences. He then recalled his meeting with Jobs. "Steve and I first met about 30 years ago. We have since become colleagues, competitors, and friends," said Gates.
Various condolences also came from well-known figures in the world of internet technology. One of them is Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang, who says Jobs is a teacher as well as his hero. "He not only gave me advice and encouragement, he also shows us all how innovation can change lives. I and the world will miss him," said Yang.
Steve Jobs does not only inherit the advanced technology tools, but also left so many students are able to change the world, changing ways of communicating, even making dunua within your grasp.
One of them adalag Mark Zuckerberg. Young people who find Facebook, which is now followed by hundreds of millions of people. In Indonesia alone has more than 40 million penguna. Zuckerberg insisted that Jobs is a friend and best teacher so far. "Thank you for showing that you make can change the world," said Zuckerberg.
Child Adoption
Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California. Jobs is a child born out of wedlock from the couple Abdulfattah John Jandali and Joanne Carole Schieble. Schieble parents do not like her hanging out with Abdulfattah which is a Syrian immigrant. Despite having given birth to a child, both parents then separated. Steve Small was adopted by a kindly couple, Justin and Clara Jobs. Jobs name was obtained from the family of this adoption.
His childhood was unhappy and he is a lazy school children. He feels the school is a very boring obligation. However, no doubt he is a brilliant child. This is what makes it skip the fifth grade and go straight into high school.
Jobs first intersection with the electronic world is when he and his family moved to Los Altos, an environment that many engineers and electronics companies emerging. In high school, he met with met with Bill Fernandez, a fellow electronics enthusiasts. Bill then introduced Steve to the Woz, his colleague who is a genius electronics.
Woz the age of 5 years older than Steve Jobs is none other than Steve Wozniak. Wozniak is what has an important role in Steve Jobs's career at a later date.
Jobs to go to college at Reed College, Portland, Oregon. An expensive campus that makes parents draining deep pockets. Jobs' stubbornness do not want to go to another place. He insisted lecture in this place.
But Jobs is only home for a semester in college there. Instead of a serious deepening of physics and who is majoring in English literature of his own choosing, instead he studied Eastern mysticism and culture. At that moment he decided to quit college.
Odor and neglected
But he had no money. To be alive, he must find a job. In 1974, Jobs got his first job at Atari. There he is only allowed to work on night shift because his body odor and appearance are not neglected. In order for the appearance of turmoil, the executive is not visible in daylight.
Jobs do not despair. He is still working hard and saving to reach his goal. Went to India to seek enlightenment. Once when he met with his boss Al Alcorn. Jobs asking for money to make a spiritual journey to India. His boss agreed on condition he had to do a job in Germany. Jobs agrees.
Done affairs in Germany, with Dan Kottke, a friend since at Reed College, Jobs went to India. Precisely in the summer of 1974. Unfortunately, in perjalananannya month-long search for enlightenment, he returned with a feeling of disappointment. Returning from India, Jobs returned to work for Atari.
At the same time, Jobs found that Woz has successfully designed a very compact computer. Jobs saw that made his product is great potential for sale.
Founded Apple
With determination, on April 1, 1976, Jobs and Woz founded Apple Computer. Apple's first product 1, the artificial Steve Wozniak. Apple's own name be used because Jobs is very fond of the fruit.
The next year, the Apple II was launched with great success. Apple became the most important companies in the computer world at that time. Next, with gusto, designing projects Lisa Jobs. Lisa is a computer that has a graphical user interface (GUI), folders, point and click features, and cut and paste. Lisa is also the first computer with mouse and affordable.
Jobs was out of Apple in 1984 because of exclusion and occupies an uncomfortable position because it is not directly related to product innovation. He then made his own company, NeXT Computer Inc. dinamakanna.
In 1995, Apple Computer at the lowest point. Although able to continue to survive from the sales of the Macintosh that is the only computer with a GUI at the time, Apple gets stiff competition from Microsoft. Apple CEO Gil Amelio was then not capable to take care of the company, Steve Jobs re-employed.
The first step is to clean the Jobs Board. Including some people who could "get rid". This he did simply to save the company. Jobs also canceled a number of projects and cut its budget as much as possible. On August 6, 1997 he even took the radical step. He worked with Bill Gates. And then Apple and Microsoft are bitter enemies.
After that one might expect, Apple's latest products spawned a voracious market eaten.
Jobs is famous for his idea to create as well as market trends world-changing technology, from computers to iPods and iPhones. Technology while maintaining the ideals of a minimalist design and break all the existing benchmark. Even when he was caught with pancreatic cancer in 2004, Jobs was able to create a new work.
IPod music player is probably one of Apple products that most affect the pace of music technology in the world. During the 10 years since created in 2001, the iPod is still the most sought after item at this time.
In 2007, Apple developed the iPhone, which is a combination between mobile phones and other devices such as store photos, games and web browsers. In 2010, Jobs introduced the iPad, a touch-screen computers are selling well in the market although analysts said the object was not useful.
Due to large sales, the company Apple even beat the U.S. oil giant, Exxon Mobil, at the beginning of this month. However, behind the success of Apple, Jobs was paid only U.S. $ 1 per month. The biggest income comes from profit-sharing companies Apple and Disney.
Jobs has Apple's 5.4 billion shares and 138 million shares of Disney. Of the two, he got a profit of about U.S. $ 578 million or around Rp 4, 9 trillion.
In 2004, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and had undergone treatment. He once declared cured until in 2009 the disease recurred. Disease that is what makes Apple was forced to retire as CEO on August 24, 2011.
"I always said if ever there comes a day when I could no longer fulfill the obligations and expectations as CEO of Apple, I'll be the first to tell you. Unfortunately, that day has come," the letter of resignation as CEO of Apple's Jobs .
Lecture of Death
Steve Jobs never talked long enough about death. He say it in front of the graduates of Stanford University, USA, in June 2005. According to Jobs, the death could have been a "best achievement in life" and do not waste "our time is limited" by relying on other people's lives. "
At the end of a speech to the graduates of Stanford University six years ago, Jobs specifically mentioned the concept of death. "I do every day in the mirror and ask yourself, 'If this is the last day of my life, whether I want to do what will I do today?" And when almost every day to answer 'No,' means I know I need to change something, "said Jobs.
"Considering I'll be dead soon is the most important thing to help me make the big choices in life," Jobs said in a speech that was published in the Stanford University website. At that time, he admitted that he had a year to know he was suffering from cancer.
"Death is most likely the best achievement in life. That is the agent of change in life, by replacing the old to make way for new ones," said Jobs.
In this speech uttered the famous quote the words of Jobs and inspire young people. "Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
On October 5, 2011, Jobs breathed their last in the age of 56 years.
Still the Big Apple
Among capital market players in the United States is optimistic the death of the founder of Apple Inc., Steve Jobs, will not be too big impact on Apple's stock price movements in the New York Stock Exchange. In fact, Apple's stock will continue to move with the trend rising.
Nevertheless, analysts are very confident, investors should give top honors to Steve Jobs, who has been building a work culture in the information technology companies.
"We believe that born Jobs ethos, vision and work ethic, will sue Apple forever," said Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster of one influential in the U.S. capital markets in a research diary as quoted from the pages of Forbes, Thursday, October 6, 2011.
"Under his leadership for 35 years as CEO of Apple, Jobs not only inspire Apple products that come with new technology and changing people's lifestyle, but also create a technology expert to do the same with him," he said.
He also optismistis Apple under the leadership of Tim Cook will continue to evolve. Jobs substitute is considered as being the most ideal for menahkodai Apple. "Cook has the ability to run Apple's business. With the combination of humility and an insatiable motivation to make Cook a unique successor Jobs as CEO," he said.
Apple's current market value of U.S. $ 351 billion. This figure increased many fold compared to Apple's market value in 2000 of only U.S. $ 5 billion. In trading Wednesday, October 5, 2011, Apple's stock still closed up 1.54 percent to a level of U.S. $ 378.25 per share.
A total of 928 million shares of Apple's higher value than the value of shares of Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, DirecTV, Dell and Nokia put together. The big advantage Apple proves that Jobs was not only an innovator geeks, but also a reliable financial expert.
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