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Biography Steve Jobs

Steven Paul "Steve" February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman and technology visionary. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chiefexecutive officer of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer fields. Jobsalso co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.
In the late1970s, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak engineered one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potentialof Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa and, one year later, the Macintosh. By introducing the LaserWriter he enabled a revolution called desktoppublishing.
After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded next, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and businessmarkets.
In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucas film, which was spun off as Pixar. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. He served as CEO and 50.1%majority shareholder until Disney bought Pixar in 2006. Jobs received 7% of Disney shares, and joined the Board of Directors as the largest individual shareholder.
By 1996, Apple had failed to deliver anew operating system, Copland. Gil Amelia turned to NeXT Computer, and the Next STEP platform became the foundation for the Mac OS X. Jobs returned to Apple as an advisor, and took control of thecompany as an interim CEO. Jobs brought Apple from near bankruptcy to profitability by 1998.
As the new CEO of the company, Jobs oversaw the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad,...