Steve Jobs苹果之父
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Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computers,
one of the world's reigning geniuses, has died at
the
age of 56 after his eight-year battle with
pancreatic cancer. The visionary who
revolutionized
movies and music and in
countless ways how we talk to each other on this
planet every day.
The news
sent a jolt around the globe and we even heard of
spontaneous gatherings outside the
Apple
stores as people got together just to remember him
and his dreams. And reactions are
flooding in,
including from Robert Iger, the President and
Chief Executive Officer of our parent
company,
the Walt Disney Company, who spoke of his friend
and colleague, who was of course
also creator
of Pixar, the movie studio and a member of the
Disney Board.
And here is what
Bob Iger said:
millions of people he
inspired, the lives he changed and the culture he
defined. Steve was such an
original with a
thoroughly creative, imaginative mind that defined
an era. Despite all he's
accomplished, it
feels like he was just getting started.
And now ABC's Bill Weir remembers the
towering legacy of Steve Jobs.
Before he put a virtual world at our
fingertips --
Before he turned
household tools into objects of desire --
phone.
Before he changed the
way we are entertained --
A
20-year-old Steve Jobs launched a revolution from
his parents' garage. With buddy Steve
Wozniak,
they set out to move the power of the computer
from the laboratory to your lap.
penalty for
failure for going and trying to start a company in
this valley is not existent.
And his brimming confidence was validated when
they launched the Macintosh.
and in 10 years
Apple had grown from just the two of us in a
garage into a two-billion-dollar
company with
over 4,000 employees.
But the
80s brought a power struggle with Apple's board,
and Jobs was soon fired from the
company he
founded.
my entire adult life was gone, and it
was devastating.
But he did not
wallow. And in his 30s, he met his wife, started
another computer company called
NeXT, and took
over Pixar, changing animation forever.
room.
In 1996, Apple bought
NeXT, and soon Jobs was back in charge, leading a
digital renaissance.
After his return, Apple
stock soared more than 7,000%, turning that garage
startup into one of the
most valuable
companies in history. And in a valley of geniuses,
his myth grew into Thomas
Edison meets Willy
Wonka proportions, building anticipation for
invention shrouded in secrecy.
While keeping his
life fiercely under wraps, not even his board knew
of his pancreatic cancer.
just wanted to
mention this.
And he didn't
reveal he’d had a liver transplant until after the
procedure.
mid-20s person who died in a car
crash.
Through life, while his
body grew frail, that mind, that drive, never
quits. A standing ovation
welcomed his
surprise appearance at the spring launch of the
iPad 2, but then came this letter in
August.
first to let you know,
He was the man who had peered into
the future, seeing how we’d work and play 20 years
before
we'd ever hold the proof.
will
be portable. People want large, color screens so
they can put photographs on.
People want
motion video.
And when the body
began to fail, he was driven anew -- by the clock
and that burning need to
build something
great.
make the big choices
in life. Because almost everything, all external
expectations, all pride, all
fear and
embarrassment of failure, these things just fall
always in the face of death, leaving only
what
is truly important.