The life of Steve Jobs, who passed away recently following a battle with cancer, has been much mentioned on the Internet for days. Infographic World, the website that creates and features info graphic about various subjects in the life, has recently also made a handy infographic featuring the most notable milestones in the life of this former Apple CEO.
Steve Jobs is believed to create value things that didn’t exist before. Steve was crazy to try and change the whole concepts of computing and gave the world the best gadgets ever. Steve Jobs died few days back, leaving countless memories and sadness behind himself. The amazing infographic named “Farewell To A Genuis” covers the whole life of Steve Jobs very artistically from birth till death.
Steve Jobs: From 1955 to 1976
Steve Jobs was born in 1955 in San Francisco and was adopted by the family of Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California. He enrolled at Reed Collage in Portland, Oregon in 1972. In 1974, Jobs took a job as a technician at Atari. Accompanied by Wozniak, he started apple computer in 1976 as he was just 21 years old.
Steve Jobs: From 1976 to 1984
The Apple I brought Steve’s small company $774,000 in July 1976. Three years later, Apple II sold $139 million, turning Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak into billionaires. In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh, marketing the computer as a piece of a counter culture lifestyle: romantic, youthful and creative.
Steve Jobs: From 1985 to 1997
Jobs resigned as Apple’s CEO in 1995 to begin a new hardware and software company called NeXT, Ins. The Apple’s CEO married Laurence Powell on March 18, 1991. In 1997, Apple bought NeXT Inc for $ 429 million, Jobs returned to his post as Apple’s CEO.
Steve Jobs: From 1998 to 2004
Jobs returned as Apple’s CEO with the success of Ipod released in 2001. In 2003, he discovered he had a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare but operable form of pancreatic cancer. He had a successful surgery to remove the tumor in 2004.
Steve Jobs: From 2004 to 2011
During the years of 2004 and 2011, Apple released iPhone, iPod Touch and Mac Book Air. On October 5, 2011, Apple announced that Steve Jobs died. He was 56 years old at the time of his death.
Steve Jobs and Apple’s achievement
Steve Jobs helped Apple achieve 54 million active Mac users. 14 billion apps have been downloaded in less than 3 years. 425,000 apps are now in the App Store. 15 billion songs have been sold through iTunes and so on.
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