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Steven Jobs was an American business magnate and industrial designer who co-founded Apple Inc. He was integral in the development of the personal computer revolution in the 1970s and 1980s with the Apple II. After leaving Apple, Jobs founded NeXT and helped develop Pixar before returning to Apple as CEO. Under his leadership, Apple introduced innovative products such as the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad that had significant cultural influence. Jobs passed away from cancer in 2011 at the age of 56.

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Steven Paul Jobs (: Toy Story

Steven Jobs was an American business magnate and industrial designer who co-founded Apple Inc. He was integral in the development of the personal computer revolution in the 1970s and 1980s with the Apple II. After leaving Apple, Jobs founded NeXT and helped develop Pixar before returning to Apple as CEO. Under his leadership, Apple introduced innovative products such as the iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad that had significant cultural influence. Jobs passed away from cancer in 2011 at the age of 56.

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Steven Paul Jobs (/dʒɒbz/; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an

American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media


proprietor. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-
founder of Apple Inc., the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar, a
member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its
acquisition of Pixar, and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs is
widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the
1970s and 1980s, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, and put up for adoption. He was
raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Reed College in 1972
before dropping out that same year, and traveled through India in 1974
seeking enlightenment and fame and wealth a year later with the Apple II,
one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers. Jobs saw
the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto in 1979, which was mouse-driven
and had a graphical user interface (GUI). This led to the development of CEO
John Sculley. That same year, Jobs took a few of Apple's members with him
to found NeXT, a computer platform development company that specialized
in computers for higher-education and business markets. In addition, he
helped to develop the visual effects industry when he funded the computer
graphics division of George Lucas's Lucasfilm in 1986. The new company
was Pixar, which produced the first 3D computer animated feature film Toy
Story (1995).
Apple acquired NeXT in 1997, and Jobs became CEO of his former company
within a few months. He was largely responsible for helping revive Apple,
which had been on the verge of bankruptcy. He worked closely with designer
Jony Ive to develop a line of products that had larger cultural ramifications,
beginning in 1997 with the "Think different" advertising campaign and leading
to the iMac, iTunes, iTunes Store, Apple Store, iPod, iPhone, App Store, and
the iPad. In 2001, the original Mac OS was replaced with a completely new
Mac OS X (now known as macOS), based on NeXT's NeXTSTEP platform,
giving the OS a modern Unix-based foundation for the first time. Jobs was
diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003. He died of
respiratory arrest related to the tumor at age 56 on October 5, 2011.

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