Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder, dead at 56

Steve Jobs, who co-founded Apple and revolutionized personal computing, died Oct. 5. He suffered from a rare form of pancreatic cancer.

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Oct. 19, 2011

Staff members hang privacy drapes in the window during a temporary closure of the Apple store in Boston. Apple Inc. closed U.S. retail stores for several hours Wednesday so employees could watch a simulcast of a company-wide celebration of co-founder Steve Jobs's life, which was being held at an outdoor amphitheater at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., a person familiar with the celebration said.

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Oct. 19, 2011

A sign in the door announces the temporary closure of the Apple store in Boston.

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Oct. 19, 2011

A member of Apple store security keeps watch at the front door of a closed store in Washington.

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Oct. 19, 2011

A man uses his iPad to take a picture of an Apple store closed to the public in Santa Monica, Calif.

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Oct. 19, 2011

People arrive for an employees-only memorial service for Steve Jobs, co-founder and former chief executive officer of Apple Inc., at the company's main campus in Cupertino, Calif.

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Oct. 19, 2011

Workers walk to a memorial service for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.

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Oct. 7, 2011

Visitors observe a shrine in honor of Steve Jobs at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. Jobs, the Apple co-founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, from the personal computer to the iPod and iPhone, has died. He was 56.

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Oct. 7, 2011

A figure of Apple founder Steve Jobs is placed in a Neapolitan Christmas creche by Gennaro Di Virgilio depicting the Nativity of Jesus in Naples.

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Oct. 6, 2011

Nineteen-year-old Jonathan Mak, a student at Hong Kong's Polytechnic University School of Design, designed this symbol. He came up with the idea of incorporating Steve Jobs's silhouette into the bite of the Apple logo, symbolizing both Jobs's departure and lingering presence at the core of the company.

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Oct. 6, 2011

Vehicles drive past the Apple store in Hong Kong with its logo lights switched off out of respect for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

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Oct. 6, 2011

Mario Spinetti sits outside the Apple store on West 66th Street in New York after hearing of the death of Steve Jobs.

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Oct. 6, 2011

Tributes to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs are placed outside the Apple store on Regent Street in London.

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Oct. 6, 2011

A man uses his iPhone to take photos of a collection of items placed as a tribute to Steve Jobs outside the Apple store on Fifth Avenue in New York.

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Oct. 6, 2011

Christine Gng, the wife of an Apple employee, cries after taking a picture of the makeshift memorial for Steve Jobs at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.

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Oct. 6, 2011

People mourn Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at an Apple store at Sanlitun Village in Beijing.

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Oct. 6, 2011

Apple fan Clarence Labor puts his Apple Macintosh Plus computer in front of the Apple store in Washington in memory of Steve Jobs.

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Oct. 6, 2011

A MacBook Air is suspended in the window of the Apple store at Legacy Village in Beachwood, Ohio.

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Oct. 6, 2011

A visitor uses her iPhone to photograph messages left in tribute to Steve Jobs attached to a window of the Apple store in Hong Kong.

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Oct. 6, 2011

Robert Blum and his son Daniel, 8, lay flowers outside the home of Steve Jobs in Palo Alto, Calif.

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Oct. 6, 2011

A gardener cuts the grass at Steve Jobs's childhood house in Los Altos, Calif., where he and Steve Wozniak created the Apple computer in the garage.

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Oct. 6, 2011

A photo of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is displayed as a tribute at the Nasdaq in New York.

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Oct. 6, 2011

A collection of tributes and remembrances for the late Steve Jobs grows in front of the Apple store in Bethesda.

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Oct. 6, 2011

Fans leaves condolence notes to pay tribute to Jobs at an Apple store in Hong Kong.

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Oct. 6, 2011

Flowers, candles and apples adorn the sidewalk outside Jobs’s home in Palo Alto, Calif., in the early morning hours the day after Jobs’s death.

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Oct. 6, 2011

A visitor places a memorial candle beside a photograph of Jobs outside of an Apple product retailer in Moscow. Apple fans worldwide mourned the death of the Apple co-founder, paying tribute to the man who changed the way they listen to music, use their mobile phones and play on their computers.

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Oct. 6, 2011

Passersby take pictures of a memorial to Jobs in front of an Apple store in New York. Jobs died Wednesday at 56.

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Oct. 6, 2011

Tributes to Jobs are placed outside the Apple store in the Covent Garden district of London. Jobs, 56, died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 and is credited, along with Steve Wozniak, with marketing the world's first personal computer in addition to the popular iPod, iPhone and iPad.

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Oct. 6, 2011

A woman reads condolence notes to Jobs at an Apple outlet in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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Oct. 6, 2011

A boy looks at a figurine of Jobs placed at a makeshift memorial in Jobs’s honor at an Apple retail store in Hong Kong.

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Oct. 6, 2011

Sales clerks wearing black armbands work near laptops displaying a Web page paying tribute to Jobs in Manila. World leaders, tech giants and countless ordinary people have paid tribute to Jobs after his death, marveling at how the Apple visionary made modern life more user-friendly.

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Oct. 6, 2011

A businessman bows in front of flowers offered in memory of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, placed at the entrance of the Ginza Apple store in Tokyo.

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Oct. 6, 2011

Tokyo fans hold a candlelight vigil with iPhones and iPads to pay tribute.

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Oct. 6, 2011

A woman touches an iPhone to light a candle graphic during a candle light vigil to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO, at an Apple Store in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo.

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Oct. 6, 2011

A man places a flower bouquet paying tribute to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs outside an Apple store in Tokyo.

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Oct. 5, 2011

Chinese exchange students from nearby De Anza College use candles to create the Apple logo and Steve Jobs' last name in Chinese characters at a makeshift memorial for Steve Jobs at the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.

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Oct. 5, 2011

An Apple employee relights an apple-shaped candle in memory of the late Steve Jobs,outside an Apple Store in Santa Monica, Calif.

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Oct. 5, 2011

Steve Jobs’s picture is featured on the front page of the Apple Web site after his death.

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1977

Jobs introduces the Apple II in Cupertino, Calif. Jobs was the first crossover technology star, turning Silicon Valley renown into Main Street recognition and paving the way for others such as Yahoo founders Jerry Yang and David Filo, and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

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January 1984

Apple chief executive Jobs, left, and company President John Sculley present the new Macintosh desktop computer at a shareholder meeting in Cupertino, Calif. In 1985, after tangling with Sculley, the Pepsi executive he brought in to run the company, Jobs sold $20 million worth of stock and resigned from Apple.

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April 24, 1984

Jobs, left, then chairman of Apple; John Sculley, center, president and chief executive; and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, unveil the Apple IIc in San Francisco.

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March 30, 1989

Jobs with his Next computer during a public demonstration in San Francisco. “I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me,” Jobs said. “... It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

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Sept. 18, 1990

Jobs shows off his company's new NeXTstation in San Francisco.

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Oct. 30, 1991

Jobs delivers the keynote address during the Unix expo at the Javitz Convention Center in New York. In late 1996, Apple bought Next for more than $400 million. Within months, he was back at Apple as an adviser and quickly became chief executive again.

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Feb. 24, 1997

Disney chief executive Michael Eisner, right, and Jobs — then heading up the Pixar Animation Studios — announce a partnership between the companies.

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Aug. 6, 1997

Jobs addresses the Macworld convention as Bill Gates, chief executive of Microsoft, appears on-screen. The businessmen announced an alliance between Apple and Microsoft.

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Jan. 7, 1997

Apple Computer Chairman Gil Amelio, left, and Jobs at the Macworld exposition in San Francisco.

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1998

Jobs with an iMac computer. “Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,” Jobs said. “People think it’s this veneer, that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

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July 21, 1999

Jobs holds up one of Apple's new iBook laptops after his keynote address at the Macworld Expo in New York.

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Oct. 16, 2003

Jobs makes a point during a media presentation in San Francisco. As controversial as he was creative, Jobs enforced a culture of secrecy at Apple’s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters.

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Oct. 26, 2004

U2's Bono, right, and the Edge, left, hug Jobs during an event in San Jose. Jobs reinvented the portable music player with the iPod and launched the first successful legal method of selling music online with the creation of iTunes.

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Jan. 11, 2005

Jobs, left, and musician John Mayer unveil the iPod Shuffle during Macworld in San Francisco.

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Sept. 7, 2005

Jobs introduces the iPod Nano in San Francisco. The first iPod was introduced in October 2001 and has sold hundreds of millions of units.

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Jan. 10, 2006

Jobs with the new MacBook Pro laptop at the Macworld conference in San Francisco.

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Jan. 10, 2006

Jobs talks about using an Intel processor in the new Macs at the Macworld conference in San Francisco.

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May 19, 2006

Jobs at the opening of the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York. Locked out of many retail chains because of its small market share, Apple responded with its own distinctively branded stores, to which users flock like pilgrims.

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Jan. 9, 2007

Jobs with the original iPhone during his keynote address at the Macworld conference in San Francisco. The iPhone’s debut in 2007 generated a huge buzz, and it soon rolled over the competition from Palm Computing and BlackBerry, despite its higher cost.

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Sept. 5, 2007

Jobs introduces the iPod Touch during an Apple special event.

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April 2, 2007

From left: Eric Nicoli, chief executive of EMI Group; musician Damon Albam; and Steve Jobs in London. The iTunes application, which allowed consumers to legally buy and download music, started in April 2003 and revolutionized the digital music industry — more than 6 billion songs have been sold.

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Jan. 27, 2010

Jobs speaks in front of a file photograph of himself and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak during the launch of the Apple iPad in San Francisco.

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March 7, 2010

Apple's Steve Jobs and wife, Laurene Powell, go through the security tent at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards held at Kodak Theatre in Hollywood in this photo released by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

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June 7, 2010

Jobs shows off the iPad at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. The iPad, a tablet-based computer introduced in January 2010, sold more than 10 million units its first year.

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July 16, 2010

Steve Jobs talks about the Apple iPhone 4 at Apple headquarters in Cupertino.

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Jan. 15, 2008

Jobs delivers the keynote speech to kick off the 2008 Macworld at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Jobs, who introduced simple, well-designed computers for people who were more interested in what technology could do rather than how it was done, died Wednesday at age 56.

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