Remembering Steve Jobs
Published October 14, 2011 | 
Steve Jobs, the late Apple CEO passed away on October 5, 2011. He was the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple Inc. On his death certificate, his occupation was listed as “entrepreneur.”
Jobs changed the world in his position as Apple CEO. In the last 10 years, Apple introduced, under Jobs’ guidance, the iPod, iPhone, and most recently the iPad. In addition to these hand-held devices, Apple has revolutionized the computer industry with their laptop and desktop technologies.
The iPod came into being because Jobs observed a lack of technology in hand-held music devices. Existing devices were either too clunky or too small, and both rendered themselves completely useless to users. The first iPod was released in 2001 and featured enough space for 1,000 songs. More modern versions of the device have 64 GB of available space and can load apps, have HD video recording, and multiple cameras for Face Time.
After the development of the iPod came the revolutionary iPhone. Apple has released five versions of the device thus far and each has been accompanied by an upgrade of the Apple operating system, iOS. The first iPhone was released in June of 2007. The most recent version, the iPhone 4S was released on October 4, 2011. With the dawning of the iPhone came the Apple App Store. For the first time, users could download applications for their smartphones to make accessing certain websites, games and services easier.
Most recently, the iPad and iPad 2 have both created and dominated the market for tablet computers. Jobs, although on a medical leave of absence for much of the iPad frenzy, was able to make it to the iPad 2 launch.
Jobs struggled with a very rare type of Pancreatic Cancer and battled his health for many years before his death in 2011. Although he passed away, he will be forever memorialized as the man who changed the world for this and future generations.
Jobs was known as a successful CEO and a marketing genius. He truly understood Apple’s core message, that “less is more.” In a Stanford Graduation Speech he delivered in June, 2005, Jobs gave now famous advice to graduating seniors that will remain with his legacy; “your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
