Tribute To Entrepreneur Steven Paul Jobs aka Steve Jobs I

Tribute to entrepreneur Steven Paul Jobs aka Steve Jobs (* February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California; † October 5, 2011 in Palo Alto, California) was an American entrepreneur. As co-founder and longtime CEO of Apple Inc. he is considered one of the most prominent figures in the computer industry. Together with Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne, he founded Apple in 1976 and helped popularize both the concept of the home computer and later the generation of smartphones as well as tablet computers. He was also instrumental in the introduction of personal computers with graphical user interfaces with the Macintosh starting in 1984, and developed important milestones for the market success of digital music downloads with the iTunes Store and the iPod media player in the early 2000s.

 
Tribute to entrepreneur Steven Paul Jobs aka Steve Jobs was also CEO and major shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios and, following a merger, the largest single shareholder of The Walt Disney Company. His fortune was estimated at $8.3 billion by Forbes Magazine in March 2011. In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak, along with Ronald Wayne, founded Apple Computer Company in tribute to entrepreneur Steven Paul Jobs aka Steve Jobs' garage in Los Altos, California. Their first product, advertised with the apple with a bite (Bite), was the Apple I, which sold for $666.66. The prototype was in a homemade wooden case.

 
In 1977, the Apple II was introduced, making Apple a major player in the home computer market. In 1984, Apple introduced the Macintosh. It was the first commercially successful computer with a graphical user interface (i.e., screen icons instead of command line code) and the computer mouse as the standard input medium. The development of the "Mac" began with Jef Raskin and his team, who were inspired by technology developed at the Xerox Research Center but not used commercially. The success of the Macintosh led Apple to abandon the Apple II in favor of the Macintosh product line, which is still followed today.