Death of the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, Apple's iconic boss, who invented, among other things, the iPod and iPhone, died Wednesday at age 56. "We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs died today," said a brief statement of the board.
"Apple has lost a visionary and a creative genius, and the world lost an incredible human being," said his successor at the head of Apple, Tim Cook, in an email to employees of the group.
"Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple," he said.  Born in San Francisco February 24, 1955, Steve Jobs was suffering from serious health problems for several years. It was reached in 2004 with a rare form of pancreatic cancer and underwent a liver transplant in 2009.
 On sick leave since January, he announced his resignation from his position as CEO on August 24, giving the reins to his number two Tim Cook. He reappeared briefly in March, thinner, to present the new version of the iPad, the tablet from Apple.
The success of Apple since Steve Jobs took over the controls after twelve years of absence is inseparable from his person. Under his leadership, Apple has become the second global market capitalization and close behind that of oil major Exxon Mobil.
Charismatic, visionary, a perfectionist, but also described as relentless, even dictatorial, Steve Jobs had an exceptional personality. "Steve Jobs is the boss who has been most successful in the United States over the past 25 years," said the president of Google Eric Schmidt, who sat a while on the board of Apple. "This is a unique blend, a touch of artist's vision of an engineer who built a great company, one of the largest in the history of the United States." For Meg Whitman, former eBay CEO, Steve Jobs was the "genius of our generation business." Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, described him as the individual most challenging of the profession, while President Barack Obama saw in him the incarnation of the American dream.
Steve Jobs founded Apple in the late 1970s with his friend Steve Wozniak in the garage of the family Jobs in Silicon Valley. The two men quickly launched their first computer, the Apple 1, followed by the Apple 2 with the huge success the new company has placed among the leaders of the emerging market of personal computing.
The introduction of Apple went public in 1980 made Steve Jobs a multimillionaire. In 1983, he debauchery John Sculley, then CEO of Pepsi, to lead the group by asking a question become a legend of Apple: "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugar water or do you want to change the world? "
Despite the success, since 1984, the launch of the Macintosh, tensions appear between Steve Jobs and John Sculley. The two men confront each other even in public, and as the first High Mass trademark of Apple in 1985 in Hawaii, has remained memorable.
So much so that Steve Jobs is going soon after, saying he was "fired" the board. He left Apple, sells all of its actions with the exception of one, and by founding a new company, NeXT.  In 1997, Apple bought NeXT and Steve Jobs is back in the business of his debut, he officially became the general manager in 2000.
The band released the following year the iPod, the digital music player with the different versions have been sold to over 250 million copies. Especially after the iPhone, which Apple launched in 2007 in mobile telephony and the iPad creating entirely new market of digital tablets. Steve Jobs is also the co-founder in 1986 of animation studio Pixar, which produced the 1995 feature film "Toy Story", the first of a series of successes both critical and commercial.