October 5, 2011
The death of Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs. The man who revolutionized computing, music and the mobile phone with devices like the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone and iPad has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56.
Born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco to unmarried college students Joan Schieble and Syrian immigrant Abdel Fattah Jandali, Jobs was adopted by Paul Jobs and his wife Clara as an infant.
After graduating from high school in Cupertino, California, in 1972, Jobs attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but only attended for one semester.
He worked briefly with Atari in California and then traveled to India, where he studied Zen Buddhism.
In 1976, Jobs and his friend, computer engineer Stephen Wozniak, founded Apple Computer in his parents’ garage in Los Altos, California.
In 1977, Jobs and Wozniak released the Apple II, which became the first popular personal computer.
In 1980, Apple went public and Jobs, who was in the second decade of his life, became a millionaire. Four years later, Apple introduced the Macintosh, one of the first computers to work by clicking a mouse instead of forcing the user to type commands.
Jobs left Apple in 1985, after a conflict with Dr. for the company and founded NeXT Corporation. When this company was acquired by Apple in 1996, Jobs returned first as a consultant and then as CEO. Under his guidance, Apple went from near bankruptcy to one of the most valuable companies in the world.
Jobs introduced the iPod in 2001, the iPhone in 2007, and the iPad in 2010.
On August 24, 2011, he left Apple and died six weeks later at his home in Palo Alto.
When he died, Jobs had four children and a fortune of more than $7 billion.
According to his biographer, he was “the most important business executive of our time the world is sure to remember in a century. History will place him in the pool of greats, alongside Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.”
Perhaps this great interest in the opinions and wisdom of the dreamy iPhone creator has given rise to scenarios, rumors and false news about his famous last words.
For some time, a text circulated on the Internet that was presented as Steve Jobs’s last words and spoke about the value of life and family that transcends all wealth and success.
“The wealth I have earned in my life I cannot take with me. What I can take are just memories filled with love,” the text reads, among other things. “Right now, as I lie in bed, sick, and as I look back at my whole life, I realize that all the fame and fortune I have are meaningless in the face of imminent death.”
However, according to Reuters’ conclusion, this is fake news. There is no reliable source to confirm that Jobs actually said these words.
Instead, his sister, Mona Simpson, revealed the businessman’s last words in her obituary, which were published in the New York Times.
“Steve’s last words, hours before, were monosyllable, and he repeated them three times,” she said. Steve’s last words were “Wow.” wow. Wow.”
These were the words Jobs said as he looked at his sister Patty, his children, and his partner, Lauren.
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