Steven Paul Jobs ( 24 February 1955 —5 October 2011) , most popularly known

as Steve Jobs was the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Apple

Inc. He was the pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He was famous for

his career in the electronic field of computers and consumers. This became

possible through the marketing of Applc computers.

In 1-985s Jobs left Apple aner losing a power battle with the board of directors.

Tle then founded NeXT, a computer platform development company

specializing in the higher education and business market. Apple. howover failed

to bring up any new operating system during Job's absence. Jobs returned to

Apple as an adviser, and took control

of the company as an interim CEO.

By 1998, Jobs brought Apple back

to profitability from the verge of

bankruptcy. He supervised the

development of iMac, iTunes, iPod,

iPhone and iPad. These devices are

so simple and user friendly that even

a child can operate them.

Ile supervised the company's Apple Stores, iTunes Stores and the App Stores

too. The success of these products and services brought about steady financial

returns for several years and pushed Apple to become the world's most valuable

publicly traded company in 2011. This triumph is regarded as the greatest

turnarounds in the business history.

Steve Jobs has been highly acclaimed as a visionary leader. He has changed

people's perspective towards the computer and how they use it, consume

personal media and how they communicate with each other. Hence iBooks,

iPhones, iPods and iPads have become extremely popular. Jobs saw and felt the

need of Wi-Fi (wireless Internet connection) in laptops. It is he who made Wi-Fi

a standard feature of every laptop, and of many other devices worldwide. So

Jobs' dream to be anywhere anytime became a reality.

Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios.

He became a member of the board of directors of Ille Walt Disney Company in

2006, when Disney acquired Pixar