The legend Steve Jobs

Under: destaques 06 October 2011 Under: Highlights

Apple Web site announcing the death of Steve.

Steve Paul Jobs, previously CEO and creator of Apple Computer. Largest industry and technology on the planet. Considered a revolutionary man, who always saw ahead of his time, because of their inventions, their businesses, and its power to raise your brand and get where they arrived. One of the richest men in the world. Surely a man with many qualities that made him a legend.

He died on Wednesday (5) to 56 years the entrepreneur Steven Paul Jobs, the founder of Apple, Pixar and father of products such as Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and the iPad.

Idolized by consumers of their products and for much of the staff of the company he founded in a garage in Silicon Valley, California, and helped transform the largest publicly traded company in the world by market value, Jobs has been a major proponent the popularization of the technology. He believed that computers and gadgets should be easy enough to be operated by anyone, as he liked to repeat in one of his favorite catchphrases, it was "just works" (in English, "it just works"). The impact of this vision was beyond his company and helped push the development of products like Microsoft's Windows.

The fight against cancer Jobs since 2004 left him physically disabled during the years of greatest commercial success of Apple, which escaped bankruptcy in the late 90s to become the largest technology company in the world. Since then, underwent a liver transplant and saw his obituary accidentally important vehicles such as Bloomberg. There are 42 days left to run the company.

Married to Laurene Powell since 1991, Jobs left four children: Paul Reed, Erin Sienna and Eve, born of his relationship with Laurene and Lisa Brennan-Jobs, from a previous relationship with the painter Chrisann Brennan.

Surely a great loss for humanity, a revolutionary genius who achieved his goal: the world has changed.

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