Apple founder Steve Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011, at the age of 56. The technology innovator succumbed to pancreatic cancer after a long illness. Jobs was an innovative genius who changed digital communication and movie making.
Steve Jobs was a technology innovator who changed the way the modern world communicates. Jobs started Apple in his family garage, along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Apple 1, built in 1976, was their first commercial product. Apple went from a garage start up to a technology giant that changed the way people communicate.
Jobs' many technological achievements include MacBook laptops, iMac computers, Macintosh computers, the iPad, the iPod, the iPhone and iTunes software. He also changed the movie industry, by creating Pixar animation.
President Obama called Steve Jobs a Visionary
President Barack Obama said that the world had lost a visionary, in a statement issued from the White House on October 5, 2011. Obama noted that Jobs was fond of saying that he lived every day like it was his last. Obama said, "Because he did, he transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world."
Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globes)
HFPA paid tribute to Steve Jobs on the Golden Globes website. Steve Jobs made a statement, as the CEO of Pixar, in 2001.
Jobs said, "I have three young children and not a lot of movies to take them to. Not a lot of people make really great family entertainment ... a lot of our audiences are adults without children because we took the Walt Disney definition of family entertainment to heart: the films should be entertaining to every member of the family, not just the kids."
Disney President Robert Iger Statement
Disney President Robert Iger, a friend and business associate of Steve Jobs, appeared on Nightline to talk about Steve Jobs. Jobs, who sold Pixar to Disney for $7 billion, was on the Disney Board of Directors.
"Despite all he accomplished, it feels like he was just getting started," said Robert Iger .
As a creative and technological genius, Steve Jobs would likely have created an untold number of new innovations.
Steve Jobs Died Surrounded by Family
Steve Jobs died peacefully, surrounded by family members, according to a statement released by the family shortly after his death. "Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family. In his public life, Steve was known as a visionary; in his private life he cherished his family. "
Steve Jobs left behind a wife and four children.
