Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, father of the Macintosh and the brains behind the wild success of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad, has passed away.
Here's a timeline of Jobs' life including his health woes.
1955: Steve Jobs is born on Feb. 24.
1974: Jobs landed at videogame company Atari Inc. and resigned after months to go to India.
1975:Created a prototype computer in his parents' garage. A year later, co-founded Apple Computer to sell their machines. Apple I.
1977: Apple II launched and became the first successful mass-market computer for 16 years.
1980: Apple III launched as a commercial failure because of faulty construction.
1983: Lisa, which was also unsuccessful. It was the the first personal computer controlled by on-screen icons activated at the click of a mouse.
1984: Macintosh computer had disappointing sales, but received good reviews.
1985: Apple closed half of its six factories.
1986: Jobs bought the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd then created what is now known as Pixar Animation Studios.
1987: Macintosh II
1988: Jobs founded NeXT Computer, but it only sold 50,000 computers.
1995: Pixar releases Toy Story, full-length computer animated film. Jobs was CEO and the film got worldwide success.
1996: Apple buys NeXT for $429m and used Jobs' technology to build the next generation of its own software.
1997: Jobs became an interin CEO at Apple.
1998: The iMac launched.
2001:iPod is sold in October and was a commercial success.
2003:iTunes music store is launched in April.
2004: Underwet a successful operation to remove a cancerous tumor in his pancreas. his cancer was rare, but a treatable form of the disease. pancreatic cancer...
2005: Jobs gave an inspiring commencement speech to young Stanford University graduates. He spoke about his health and life in itself, passing on his life's wisdom.
2007:iPhone is launched and Jobs also decided to drop the computer from Apple's name.
March 2008: Jobs hid his battle with cancer for nine months before revealing it to anyone outside his intimate circles.
June 2008: Photos taken at a WWDC conference in San Francisco showed a thin-looking Jobs.
December 2008: Jobs said he will not give the keynote address at the final Macworld Conference and Expo in 2009. This announcement also ignited rumors about his health.
June 2009: News surfaced that Jobs had successful liver transplant and is recovering.
2010:iPad launched in April and 3 million devices are sold in 80 days.
January 2011: Apple announced that Jobs took a leave of absence again. Jobs message, "I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can. In the meantime, my family and I would deeply appreciate respect for our privacy." Jobs managed to make several Apple-related appearances, including at the iPad 2 launch event.
August 2011: Jobs announced his resignation from as Apple CEO on August 24.
Oct. 5, 2011: Apple announced Steve Jobs died one day after iphone 4S was unveiled.
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Content : International Business Times
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