Apple Co-founder and chief Steve jobs,who died on Wednesday at the age 56. Apple was the world's second most valuable company in terms of market capitalization, First one is oil group Exxon Mobil, which it had briefly passed recently for the top spot.
Mile Stones of Steve............
1955: Stephen Paul Jobs born Feb 24.
1972: Jobs enrols in Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but drops out after a semester.
1974: Jobs works for video game maker Atari and attends meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve Wozniak, a high school friend.
1976: Apple Computer is formed on April Fools' Day, shortly after Wozniak and Jobs create a new computer circuit board in a Silicon Valley garage. The Apple I later goes on sale for US$666.66 ($803.88).
1977: Apple is incorporated by its founders and a group of venture capitalists. It unveils Apple II, the first PC to generate colour graphics.
1980: Apple goes public, raising US$110 million in one of the biggest IPOs.
1984: The Macintosh computer on sale.
1985: Jobs and CEO John Sculley clash, leading to Jobs' resignation. Wozniak also resigns.
1986: Jobs founds Next, a company making high-end machines for universities. He buys Pixar from Star Wars creator George Lucas for US$10 million.
1991: Apple and IBM announce an alliance to develop new PC microprocessors and software.
1994: Apple introduces Power Macintosh based on the PowerPC chip it developed with IBM and Motorola. Apple licenses its operating software, allowing others to clone the Mac.
1995: The first Mac clones go on sale. Microsoft releases Windows 95. Pixar's Toy Story, the first commercial computer-animated feature, hits theatres.
1996: Apple buys Next for US$430m.
1997: Steve Jobs returns to Apple as an adviser, then "de facto head" of company; CEO Gil Amelio is pushed out. Jobs ends Mac clones.
1998: Apple returns to profitability and unveils the iMac.
2000: Jobs is named CEO of Apple.
2001: The first iPod goes on sale, as do computers with OS X, the modern Mac operating system based on Next software.
2003: Apple launches the iTunes music store with 200,000 songs at 99c each.
2004: Jobs undergoes surgery for a rare but curable form of pancreatic cancer.
2006: Disney buys Pixar for US$7.4 billion. Jobs becomes Disney's largest sole shareholder and much of his wealth is derived from this sale.
2007: Apple releases the iPhone.
2008: Speculation mounts that Jobs is ill.
2009: Jobs returns from medical leave in June. It is later revealed he received a liver transplant.
2010: Apple sells 15 million iPads in nine months.
January 17, 2011: In a memo to Apple employees, Jobs announces a second indefinite medical leave.
August 24, 2011: Jobs' resignation as CEO announced.
1972: Jobs enrols in Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but drops out after a semester.
1974: Jobs works for video game maker Atari and attends meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve Wozniak, a high school friend.
1976: Apple Computer is formed on April Fools' Day, shortly after Wozniak and Jobs create a new computer circuit board in a Silicon Valley garage. The Apple I later goes on sale for US$666.66 ($803.88).
1977: Apple is incorporated by its founders and a group of venture capitalists. It unveils Apple II, the first PC to generate colour graphics.
1980: Apple goes public, raising US$110 million in one of the biggest IPOs.
1984: The Macintosh computer on sale.
1985: Jobs and CEO John Sculley clash, leading to Jobs' resignation. Wozniak also resigns.
1986: Jobs founds Next, a company making high-end machines for universities. He buys Pixar from Star Wars creator George Lucas for US$10 million.
1991: Apple and IBM announce an alliance to develop new PC microprocessors and software.
1994: Apple introduces Power Macintosh based on the PowerPC chip it developed with IBM and Motorola. Apple licenses its operating software, allowing others to clone the Mac.
1995: The first Mac clones go on sale. Microsoft releases Windows 95. Pixar's Toy Story, the first commercial computer-animated feature, hits theatres.
1996: Apple buys Next for US$430m.
1997: Steve Jobs returns to Apple as an adviser, then "de facto head" of company; CEO Gil Amelio is pushed out. Jobs ends Mac clones.
1998: Apple returns to profitability and unveils the iMac.
2000: Jobs is named CEO of Apple.
2001: The first iPod goes on sale, as do computers with OS X, the modern Mac operating system based on Next software.
2003: Apple launches the iTunes music store with 200,000 songs at 99c each.
2004: Jobs undergoes surgery for a rare but curable form of pancreatic cancer.
2006: Disney buys Pixar for US$7.4 billion. Jobs becomes Disney's largest sole shareholder and much of his wealth is derived from this sale.
2007: Apple releases the iPhone.
2008: Speculation mounts that Jobs is ill.
2009: Jobs returns from medical leave in June. It is later revealed he received a liver transplant.
2010: Apple sells 15 million iPads in nine months.
January 17, 2011: In a memo to Apple employees, Jobs announces a second indefinite medical leave.
August 24, 2011: Jobs' resignation as CEO announced.
October 5,2011: Jobs Dies
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