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Steven Paul Jobs was born
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Steve Jobs is an American business magnate and inventor
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Jobs created the first successful personal computer Apple II
In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. -
He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple Inc.
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Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface which led to the creation of the Macintosh.
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formed NeXT Software to develop computer hardware and software
After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1984, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets. -
He acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios.
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Steve Jobs sold Pixar Animation Studios to Walt Disney Studio
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Jobs returned to be chief executive officer of Apple Inc. and launched IPad, IPod and IPhone technologies.
