“There may never be another chief executive like him. Apple’s former CEO and co-founder transformed the world’s relationship with technology — forever,” Fortune reports.
“This year one of the world’s most important and transformative business and technology leaders passed away. Steve Jobs, the legendary and mercurial co-founder of Apple, died Wednesday, Oct. 5 at age 56,” Fortune reports. “In this story, Fortune looks back at how he changed the way we think about and use technology forever, putting his own stamp on everything from the personal computer to the music industry.”
10 ways Steve Jobs changed the world:
• Design
• Music
• The Personal Computer
• The Post-PC Era
• The Ads
• The iPhone
• The Ecosystem
• The Mac OS
• The Apple Retail Stores
• Apple Inc. – Ultimately, Jobs’ biggest contribution isn’t just a smartphone, a tablet or an operating system, but Apple itself, a 12,000-strong organization that was once on the brink of irrelevance. Since his return to the company in 1997, Jobs has rebuilt it into the most valuable technology company in the world, surpassing other heavyweights like Microsoft or HP. It may indeed be the greatest turnaround in business history. Nothing better exemplifies that in design or scale than Apple’s upcoming new headquarters, a 2.8-million square foot campus that will house 300,000 square feet of research facilities, a 1,000-seat auditorium, a power plant and underground parking. “I think we do have a shot at building the best office building in the world,” Jobs said, who arguably wouldn’t settle for anything but the best where any area of his company was concerned.
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