What would Apple be without Steve Jobs?

“It’s a tribute to Steve Jobs’ vision for personal computing that despite Apple’s minority position in the technology landscape, he has taken up residence in the upper echelons of those business leaders and technologists responsible for shaping the next generation of computing,” Seb Janacek writes for Silicon.com.

“We all know the story of how Jobs and Steve Wozniak formed Apple in 1976 and hit a home run a year later with the Wozniak-designed Apple II. Then in 1984 the launch of the Macintosh cemented Jobs’ position as a leader capable of understanding and defining the technological zeitgeist,” Janacek writes. “Likewise we’ve heard about his exit from Apple a year later, buying Pixar, starting software firm NeXT – and then selling it to Apple, the move which brought him back to the company he founded. Jobs soon ousted solid but unspectacular Apple CEO Gil Amelio and set about dragging the company out of the mire… As US technology journalist Nick Arnett once wrote: ‘Without Jobs, Apple is just another Silicon Valley company and without Apple, Jobs is just another Silicon Valley millionaire.'”

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