In the late 1970s, Jobs—along with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkulaand others—designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple's subsequent 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its CEO from 1997 until August 2011.
In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd, which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2006. Consequently Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder at 7 percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as Apple's CEO.
On October 5, 2011, Jobs died in California at age 56, seven years after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The cause of death has not yet been officially confirmed, but is generally believed to be pancreatic cancer.
At the time of his resignation, and again after his death, he was widely described as a perfectionist, visionary, pioneer and genius—perhaps one of the foremost—in the field of business, innovation and product design, and a man who had "profoundly" changed the face of the modern world, revolutionized at least six different industries, and an "exemplar for all chief executives". His death was widely mourned and considered a loss to the world by commentators across the globe
喬布斯早年照片(21張)姓名：史蒂夫·喬布斯(Steve Jobs) 職位：蘋果聯合創始人兼蘋果董事、前蘋果CEO。 出生年月：1955年2月24日。 逝世時間：美國當地時間 2011年10月5日 北京時間 2011年10月6日淩晨 父母：在嬰兒時期被保羅·喬布斯(Paul Jobs)和克拉拉·喬布斯(ClaraJobs)領養，前者為壹家激光公司的機械師，後者為會計師，兩人均已過世。 兄弟姐妹：喬布斯有壹名胞妹，名為莫娜·辛普森(Mona Simpson)，小說家。 教育程度：1972年畢業於加利福尼亞州洛斯阿圖斯的Homestead高中，後入讀俄勒岡州波特蘭的裏德學院，六個月後退學。 家庭：與妻子勞倫·鮑威爾(Laurene Powell)相逢於哈佛大學，1991年結婚，同為素食主義者。 喬布斯23歲時育有壹女，名為莉薩·喬布斯(Lisa Jobs)，但並未與其生母結婚，此後與勞倫育有三名子女。 居住地：加利
喬布斯生活照(23張)福尼亞州帕羅奧多的英式紅磚建築，建於上個世紀30年代，價值約300萬到500萬美元，裝修簡陋。 外貌：身材修長，喜穿牛仔褲、黑色套領毛衣和跑鞋。 愛好：被人稱為神經高度緊張的工作狂，以其熱情激勵他人，擁有壹個“現實扭曲場”，熱衷於技術，事必躬親，傲慢而偏執，有禪宗信徒壹般讓人鎮靜的力量。 偶像：惠普聯合創始人戴維·帕卡德(Dave Packard)，英特爾聯合創始人鮑勃·諾伊斯 (Bob Noyce)和安迪·格魯夫(Andy Grove)，以及歌星鮑勃·迪倫 (Bob Dylan)。 朋友：加利福尼亞州前州長傑裏·布朗(Jerry Brown)、甲骨文（Oracle）董事長拉裏·埃裏森(Lawrence J Ellison)和表妹辛普森。 凈資產：83億美元(2011福布斯財富榜) 所獲榮譽和獎項：1985年被裏根總統授予國家技術獎章，1987年獲傑斐遜公眾服務獎，1989年被《公司》雜誌評為“十年企業家”、擁有313項專利。