Hello, I'm a Mac. And I'm a PC
Oct
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10/6/2011 11:11 AM
Steve Jobs died on Wednesday at the age of 56. Being hailed as the greatest businessman of our time, he defined the ways we go about our daily lives. Not only making great productivity tools, but ensuring they were asthetically pleasing, elevating Apple in our cultural psyche. To most, technology was merely a form of function. But Steve Jobs pioneered new spaces to exist and objects to to identify much the same way we would identify a shoe, or a film, which become more meaningful than just the product.
"Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being," says Apple CEO Tim Cook. "Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple."
In 1976 Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computer with friend, Steve Wozniak marketing the world's first personal computer. While other computer manufacturers felt computers were only to be used in business, Steve Jobs brought it to us en mass. After being incorporated in 1977, Apple releases it's Apple II, with color graphics.
Through the years, Apple reached some serious deep dark lows, after Steve Jobs left in 1985. Coming back a decade later as an interm CEO, Steve Jobs returns Apple to profitability by releasing the iMac in 1996. In 2007 releases the iPhone, starting a cultural change that to this day is still being felt.
On August 24, 2011, Steve Jobs announced that he is resigning as Apple's CEO. He had been due battling pancreatic cancer, since 2008. Tim Cook takes the title and Apple names Steve Jobs as chairman.
On Wednesday October 5, 2011 Apple announces that Steve Jobs passed away and did not give a cause.
Regardless of which camp you reside, today we are all a Mac.