Apple’s
Visionary Redefined Digital Age
Steven P. Job, the visionary co-founder of Apple
who helped usher in the era of personal computers and then led a
cultural transformation in the way music, movies and mobile
communications were experienced in the digital age, died Wednesday. He
was 56.
The death was announced by Apple, the company Mr. Jobs and his high
school friend Stephen Wozniak started in 1976 in a suburban California
garage. A friend of the family said the cause was complications of
pancreatic cancer.
Mr. Jobs had waged a long and public struggle with the disease,
remaining the face of the company even as he underwent treatment,
introducing new products for a global market in his trademark blue jeans
even as he grew gaunt and frail.
He underwent surgery in 2004, received a liver transplant in 2009 and
took three medical leaves of absence as Apple’s chief executive before
stepping down in August and turning over the helm to Timothy D. Cook,
the chief operating officer. When he left, he was still engaged in the
company’s affairs, negotiating with another Silicon Valley executive
only weeks earlier.
“I have always said that if there ever came a day when I could no longer
meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s C.E.O., I would be the first
to let you know,” Mr. Jobs said in a letter released by the company.
“Unfortunately, that day has come.”
By then, having mastered digital technology and capitalized on his
intuitive marketing sense, Mr. Jobs had largely come to define the
personal computer industry and an array of digital consumer and
entertainment businesses centered on the Internet. He had also become a
very rich man, worth an estimated $8.3 billion.
“I have always wished that for myself,” he
said.
Steve Lohr contributed reporting.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/business/steve-jobs-of-apple-dies-at-56.html?pagewanted=all. Accessed October 14, 2011
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