Steven Paul Jobs 1955-2011

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

Steve Jobs is one of the most legendary names in computing history.

Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computer, Inc. in 1976 with Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne and Mike Markkula in Cupertino, California. Jobs led Apple to be one of the world’s leading high tech companies with immensely popular products such as Macintosh computers, Powerbook laptops, iMac, iPod, iPhone and iPad.

In 1986 Jobs bought the digital graphics department of George Lucas’s Lucasfilm Limited and converted it into Pixar Animation Studios. Under Jobs’ management Pixar has produced several successful animated feature films such as Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars and Up. Every Pixar film is among the fifty highest grossing animated films of all time.

Steve Jobs is a holder of over 300 US patents or patent applications as the primary inventor or co-inventor.

Steven Paul Jobs was born February 24, 1955 in San Francisco and died
October 5, 2011 in Palo Alto at the age of 56.

The Famous Apple 1984 Commercial That Made Advertising History

Here is the legendary TV-commercial that introduced Apple Macintosh computers to the world in1984. It was broadcasted only once on US daytime television on January 22nd during the third quarter of Super Bowl XVIII.

The commercial was directed by Ridley Scott and it was inspired by George Orwell’s book titled 1984. The George Orwell estate as the rights holder for the novel considered Apple’s TV commercial as copyright infringement and sent an ultimatum to Apple in April. The legendary 1984 Apple commercial was never televised as a commercial after that.

Steve Jobs was truly a visionary and you can tell that by just looking at this 1984 TV commercial; it is still as fresh as ever after 27 years!

The digital world will never be the same without Steve Jobs.

R.I.P.