Steve Jobs a murit

Steve Jobs, co-fondator si presedinte al consiliului de administratie al Apple a murit la varsta de 56 de ani, transimte AP.

"Suntem profund indurerati sa va anuntam ca Steve Jobs a decedat. Stralucirea lui Steve, pasiunea si energia sa au reprezentat sursa a nenumarate inovatii care imbogatesc si imbunatatesc vietile noastre. Lumea este incomensurabil mai buna datorita lui Steve", se arata intr-un comunicat Apple.
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1971 - Il intalneste pe Steve Wozniak cu care va fonda Apple
1976 - Compania Apple este fondata, e construit primul computer Apple I
1977 - Este lansat Apple II, primul PC cu succes comerciale real
1980 - Apare pe piata Apple III, compania se listeaza
1984 - E lansat Macintosh
1985 - Jobs demisioneaza dupa o cearta cu Sculley. In acelasi an fondeaza Next Inc, companie de soft si hard care avea sa se numeasca Next Computer Inc.
1989 - Compania lui Jobs a lansat PC-ul de 6.500 dolari NeXT Computer, care insa a fost un esec pe piata.
1996 - Apple cumpara cu aproape jumatate de miliard de dolari compania Next Computer.
1997 - Steve Jobs devine CEO si presedinte al Apple
1998 - Jobs incepe relansarea Apple. E scoasa pe piata noua gama de desktop-uri all-in-one iMac, compania trece pe profit, valoarea actiunilor creste enorm.
2001 - Este lansat primul iPod
2003 - Se lanseaza iTunes Music Store
2004 - Jobs este diagnosticat cu cancer la pancreas, este operat si se intoarce la munca in toamna anului
2007 - Este lansat iPhone-ul
2010 - Jobs este in concediu medical sase luni din cauza problemelor de sanatate
2011 - Jobs intra in concediu medical in ianuarie, insa este prezent pentru discursurile de lansare iPad 2 (in martie) si iCloud (iunie).
2011, 25 iulie - Steve Jobs anunta ca demisioneaza din functia de CEO al Apple, insa ramane presedinte al companiei si e de asteptat sa aiba o influenta extraordinara multi ani de aici inainte.
2011, 4 octombrie: Tim Cook, noul CEO al Apple prezinta iPhone 4S, intr-un eveniment de lansare marcat de lipsa de Steve Jobs.
2011, 5 octombrie: Apple anunta moartea lui Steve Jobs, la varsta de 56 de ani.

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Putine isorie despre ceea ce a adus Steve Jobs lumii:


Apple I, 1976
Apple Computer was founded on April 1, 1976 by a small group headed by Jobs, engineer Steve Wozniak and industry vet Ronald Wayne, who was brought in to provide "adult supervision."

Priced at $666.66, Apple's first computer was little more than a circuit board. Once you bought one, you still had to hook up your own keyboard, monitor and power supply. As such, the Apple appealed mostly to the DIY hardware hackers of the day, who had these things on hand already


Apple II, 1977
The company hit the jackpot one year later with 1977's Apple II, a fully assembled desktop computer in a handsome case. Hackers still took to it because of its expandability. More importantly, schools used it to teach programming (it ran Integer BASIC) and offices started snatching them up once VisiCalc launched on the nascent platform.


Macintosh, 1984
The Macintosh arrived in 1984, and it was the first computer to successfully integrate two things that are now commonplace: a graphical user interface and a mouse. Little pictures of folders, the piece of paper denoting a file, the trash can — most of us learned how all of these things worked when we sat down at the Mac. Drag-and-drop, too.

Apple launched the Macintosh with a massive media campaign spearheaded by a minute-long TV commercial (riffing on Orwell's 1984) that aired during the Super Bowl.


Apple IIc, 1984
Only a few months after launching the Macintosh, Apple released the Apple IIc, a slimmed-down version of the Apple II that was much more portable. It had a handle on the back so you could carry it around comfortably with one hand. It wasn't quite a laptop — the monitor and power supply weren't attached — and the guts weren't a whole lot different than what you got in the bigger Apple II models. But the little white eight-pound box was an important step for desktop computers.

It was one of the first small-form-factor PCs to hit the market, signaling the industry-wide move toward compact, integrated designs that would come later. Also, its diminutive size and unassuming looks were far less intimidating than the hulking machines common in the mid-1980s. It was an era when computers beginning to creep into middle-class homes, and first-time buyers found the IIc a "friendly" and appealing option. It looked equally attractive in the family room as it did in the office.


LaserWriter, 1985
It cost $7,000 and was bigger than your microwave. But put one on your desk and you could publish your own newspaper.

The LaserWriter wasn't the first desktop laser printer to hit the market, but it was the first created for the Macintosh, and the first to use the cutting-edge PostScript language that gave designers a new level of control over page layout, text options, and graphics. It was announced on the same day as its killer app, Aldus PageMaker.

So while the LaserWriter wasn't the first shot fired in the desktop publishing revolution, it was the first to draw blood.


Pixar, 1986
Steve Jobs bought Pixar in 1986. At the time, it was a small group of engineers spun off from the computer graphics department at Lucasfilm. Jobs paid $5 million to George Lucas and sank $5 million of his own money into the company.

His original vision for Pixar was to develop graphics-rendering hardware and software, but the business eventually evolved into an animation studio. Jobs signed a distribution deal with Disney and Pixar began cranking out a string of hit family films, all of them computer-animated. 1995's Toy Story was the first blockbuster. Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, WALL-E and Up followed. Accolades and Oscars came rolling in, along with massive mountains of cash.

In 2006, Jobs flipped his original $10 million investment, selling Pixar to Disney for $7.4 billion in stock. That's one hell of an exit.


NeXT, 1988
After the success of the Macintosh, Jobs was marginalized by Apple's board of directors, so he left to found a new computer company called NeXT. Without Jobs at the helm, Apple floundered through the early 1990s. A series of missteps eventually caused the company's market share to fall into the low single digits.

Meanwhile, Jobs launched a new computer system at NeXT. Its most famous workstation was an austere black cube — Jobs constantly pushed his designers to experiment with innovative case constructions throughout his career — that cost $6,500. It ran a new operating system, NeXTSTEP, which was based on Unix.

Though it was pricey, it was fast and especially adept at math functions, and it had a built-in Ethernet port in an age when most computers still needed a network interface card. Because of these high-end features, NeXT boxes were ignored by the mass market, but quickly snatched up by academics and programmers. Tim Berners-Lee used one to write the first web server and the first web browser. The first server node on the World Wide Web was a NeXT box


iMac, 1998
After NeXT failed to gain traction, Jobs sold the company to Apple and came back into the fold in 1996. Two years later, the company released a complete rewrite of the desktop PC — the candy-colored iMac. It kicked the boring beige PC box to the curb, and it marked the return of the revolutionary all-in-one design first introduced by the original Macintosh. The first iMac was a runaway hit, and the all-in-one design is still used by today's iMac (and widely copied by other PC manufacturers).


Power Mac G4 Cube, 2000
Jobs wasn't ready to let go of his dream of a cube-shaped computer, which he first tried at NeXT. He encouraged Apple designer Jonathan Ive to work the shape into the Power Mac line, and the company pumped out the eight-inch clear acrylic cube in 2000.

It didn't do so hot. It was $1,800, the disk drive had problems, and the case developed stress cracks easily.

Still, it was a forward-thinking step that design nerds still drool over. There's even one in the MoMA's permanent collection.

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