Steve Jobs
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Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman and inventor widely recognized as a charismatic
pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive
officer of Apple Inc. Jobs was co-founder and previously served as chief executive of Pixar
Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in
2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. Jobs died on October 5, 2011 due to a form of
pancreatic cancer.
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Steve Jobs 3
Early Life 4
Career 5
Business Life 7
Personal Life 9
Death 10
Honors and Public Recognition 12
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Steve Jobs
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who
was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he is widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the
personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields, transforming "one
industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies". Jobs also co-founded and served as chief
executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006,
when Disney acquired Pixar. 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 Apple Lisa and, a year later, the Macintosh. He also played a role in introducing
the LaserWriter, one of the first widely available laser printers, to the market.
After a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development
company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of
Lucasfilm, which was spun off as Pixar. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. He served as CEO and
majority shareholder until Disney's purchase of Pixar in [Link] 1996, after Apple had failed to deliver its operating system,
Copland, Gil Amelio turned to NeXT Computer, and the NeXTSTEP platform became the foundation for the Mac OS [Link]
returned to Apple as an advisor, and took control of the company as an interim CEO. Jobs brought Apple from near bankruptcy
to profitability by 1998.
As the new CEO of the company, Jobs oversaw the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and on the
services side, the company's Apple Retail Stores, iTunes Store and the App Store. The success of these products and services
provided several years of stable financial returns, and propelled Apple to become the world's most valuable publicly traded
company in 2011. The reinvigoration of the company is regarded by many commentators as one of the greatest turnarounds in
business history.
In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreas neuroendocrine tumor. Though it was initially treated, he reported a hormone
imbalance, underwent a liver transplant in 2009, and appeared progressively thinner as his health declined. On medical leave for
most of 2011, Jobs resigned in August that year, and was elected Chairman of the Board. He died of respiratory arrest related to
the tumor on October 5, 2011.
Jobs received a number of honors and public recognition for his influence in the technology and music industries. He has been
referred to as "legendary", a "futurist" and a "visionary", and has been described as the "Father of the Digital Revolution", a
"master of innovation", "the master evangelist of the digital age" and a "design perfectionist".
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Early Life
Jobs's birth parents met at the University of Wisconsin, where his Syrian-born biological father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, was a
student, and later taught, and where his biological mother, Swiss-American Catholic Joanne Carole Schieble, was also a
student. Jandali, who was teaching in Wisconsin when Jobs was born, said he had no choice but to put the baby up for adoption
because his girlfriend's family objected to their relationship.
Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955. He was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922-1993)
and Clara Jobs (1924-1986), an Armenian American. According to Steve Jobs's commencement address at Stanford, Schieble
wanted Jobs to be adopted only by a college graduate couple. Schieble learned that Clara Jobs hadn't graduated from college
and Paul Jobs had only attended high school, but signed final adoption papers after they promised her that the child would
definitely be encouraged and supported to attend college. Later, when asked about his "adoptive parents", Jobs replied
emphatically that Paul and Clara Jobs "were my parents." He stated in his authorized biography that they "were my parents
1,000%." Unknown to him, his biological parents would subsequently marry (December 1955), have a second child, novelist
Mona Simpson, in 1957, and divorce in 1962.
The Jobs family moved from San Francisco to Mountain View, California when Jobs was five years old. The parents later
adopted a daughter, Patty. Paul worked as a mechanic and a carpenter, and taught his son rudimentary electronics and how to
work with his hands. Paul showed Steve how to work on electronics in the family garage, demonstrating to his son how to take
apart and rebuild electronics such as radios and televisions. As a result, he became interested in and developed a hobby of
technical tinkering.
Clara was an accountant who taught him to read before he went to school. Clara Jobs had been a payroll clerk for Varian
Associates, one of the first high-tech firms in what became known as Silicon Valley.
Jobs' youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. At Monta Loma Elementary school in Mountain View, he
frequently played pranks on others. Though school officials recommended that he skip two grades on account of his test scores,
his parents elected for him only to skip one grade.
Jobs then attended Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. At Homestead, Jobs became
friends with Bill Fernandez, a neighbor who shared the same interests in electronics. Fernandez introduced Jobs to his neighbor,
Steve Wozniak, a computer and electronics whiz kid, who was also known as "Woz". In 1969 Wozniak started building a little
computer board with Fernandez that they named "The Cream Soda Computer", which they showed to Jobs; he seemed really
interested. Wozniak has stated that they called it the Cream Soda Computer because he and Fernandez drank cream soda all
the time whilst they worked on it and that he and Jobs had gone to the same high school, although they did not know each other
there.
Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Reed was an expensive college
which Paul and Clara could ill afford. They were spending much of their life savings on their son's higher education. Jobs
dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes, including a course on
calligraphy. He continued auditing classes at Reed while sleeping on the floor in friends' dorm rooms, returning Coke bottles for
food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple. Jobs later said, "If I had never dropped in on that
single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."
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Career
Early Life
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In 1972, Steve Wozniak designed his own version of the classic video game, Pong. After finishing it, Wozniak gave the board to
Jobs, who then took the game down to Atari, Inc. in Los Gatos, California. Atari thought that Jobs had built it and gave him a job
as a technician. Atari's co-founder Nolan Bushnell later described him as "difficult but valuable", pointing out that "he was very
often the smartest guy in the room, and he would let people know that".
Jobs travelled to India in mid-1974 to visit Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi ashram with a Reed College friend (and, later, an
early Apple employee), Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment. When they got to the Neem Karoli ashram, it was
almost deserted because Neem Karoli Baba had died in September 1973. Then they made a long trek up a dry riverbed to an
ashram of Haidakhan Babaji. In India, they spent a lot of time on bus rides from Delhi to Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh.
After staying for seven months, Jobs left India and returned to the US ahead of Daniel Kottke. Jobs had changed his
appearance; his head was shaved and he wore traditional Indian clothing. During this time, Jobs experimented with
psychedelics, later calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life". He also
became a serious practitioner of Zen Buddhism, engaged in lengthy meditation retreats at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center,
the oldest Sōtō Zen monastery in the US. He considered taking up monastic residence at Eihei-ji in Japan, and maintained a
lifelong appreciation for Zen. Jobs would later say that people around him who did not share his countercultural roots could not
fully relate to his thinking.
Jobs then returned to Atari, and was assigned to create a circuit board for the arcade video game Breakout. According to
Bushnell, Atari offered $100 for each chip that was eliminated in the machine. Jobs had little specialized knowledge of circuit
board design and made a deal with Wozniak to split the fee evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of
chips. Much to the amazement of Atari engineers, Wozniak reduced the number of chips by 50, a design so tight that it was
impossible to reproduce on an assembly line. According to Wozniak, Jobs told him that Atari gave them only $700 (instead of the
offered $5,000), and that Wozniak's share was thus $350. Wozniak did not learn about the actual bonus until ten years later, but
said that if Jobs had told him about it and had said he needed the money, Wozniak would have given it to him.
Wozniak had designed a low-cost digital "blue box" to generate the necessary tones to manipulate the telephone network,
allowing free long-distance calls. Jobs decided that they could make money selling it. The clandestine sales of the illegal "blue
boxes" went well, and perhaps planted the seed in Jobs's mind that electronics could be fun and profitable. Jobs, in a 1994
interview, recalled that it took six months for him and Wozniak to figure out how to build the blue boxes. Jobs said that if not for
the blue boxes, there would have been no Apple. He states it showed them that they could take on large companies and beat
them.
Jobs began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Wozniak in 1975. He greatly admired Edwin H. Land, the
inventor of instant photography and founder of Polaroid Corporation, and would explicitly model his own career after that of
Land's.
In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak formed their own business, which they named "Apple Computer Company" in remembrance of a
happy summer Jobs had spent picking apples. At first they started off selling circuit boards.
Apple Computer
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In 1976, Wozniak single-handedly invented the Apple I computer. After Wozniak showed it to Jobs, who suggested that they sell
it, they and Ronald Wayne formed Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs's parents in order to sell it. Wayne stayed only a short
time leaving Jobs and Wozniak as the primary co-founders of the company. They received funding from a then-semi-retired Intel
product-marketing manager and engineer Mike Markkula. Scott McNealy, one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, said that
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Jobs broke a "glass age ceiling" in Silicon Valley because he'd created a very successful company at a young age.
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Business Life
Remember, the sixties happened in the early seventies, and that's when I came of age; and to me, the spark of that was that
there was something beyond what you see every day. It's the same thing that causes people to be poets instead of bankers. And
I think that's a wonderful thing. I think that same spirit can be put in to products, and those products can be manufactured, and
given to people, and they can sense that spirit.
-Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
Wealth
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Although Jobs earned only $1 a year as CEO of Apple, Jobs held 5.426 million Apple shares worth $2.1 billion, as well as 138
million shares in Disney (which he received in exchange for Disney's acquisition of Pixar) worth $4.4 billion. Jobs quipped that
the $1 per annum he was paid by Apple was based on attending one meeting for 50 cents while the other 50 cents was based
on his performance. Forbes estimated his net wealth at $8.3 billion in 2010, making him the 42nd-wealthiest American.
Stock Options Backdating Issue
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In 2001, Jobs was granted stock options in the amount of 7.5 million shares of Apple with an exercise price of $18.30. It was
alleged that the options had been backdated, and that the exercise price should have been $21.10. It was further alleged that
Jobs had thereby incurred taxable income of $20,000,000 that he did not report, and that Apple overstated its earnings by that
same amount. As a result, Jobs potentially faced a number of criminal charges and civil penalties. The case was the subject of
active criminal and civil government investigations, though an independent internal Apple investigation completed on December
29, 2006 found that Jobs was unaware of these issues and that the options granted to him were returned without being
exercised in 2003.
On July 1, 2008, a $7 billion class action suit was filed against several members of the Apple Board of Directors for revenue lost
due to the alleged securities fraud.
Management Style
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Jobs was a demanding perfectionist[126][127] who always aspired to position his businesses and their products at the forefront
of the information technology industry by foreseeing and setting trends, at least in innovation and style. He summed up that self-
concept at the end of his keynote speech at the Macworld Conference and Expo in January 2007, by quoting ice hockey player
Wayne Gretzky
There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.' And we've
always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very very beginning. And we always will.[128]
Steve Jobs announcing the transition to Intel processors in June 2005.
Much was made of Jobs's aggressive and demanding personality. Fortune wrote that he was "considered one of Silicon Valley's
leading egomaniacs". Commentaries on his temperamental style can be found in Michael Moritz's The Little Kingdom, The
Second Coming of Steve Jobs, by Alan Deutschman; and iCon: Steve Jobs, by Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon. In 1993,
Jobs made Fortune's list of America's Toughest Bosses in regard to his leadership of NeXT.
NeXT Cofounder Dan'l Lewin was quoted in Fortune as saying of that period, "The highs were unbelievable ... But the lows were
unimaginable", to which Jobs's office replied that his personality had changed since then.
Apple CEO Tim Cook noted, "More so than any person I ever met in my life, [Jobs] had the ability to change his mind, much
more so than anyone I've ever met... Maybe the most underappreciated thing about Steve was that he had the courage to
change his mind."
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In 2005, Jobs banned all books published by John Wiley & Sons from Apple Stores in response to their publishing an
unauthorized biography, iCon: Steve Jobs. In its 2010 annual earnings report, Wiley said it had "closed a deal ... to make its titles
available for the iPad." Jef Raskin, a former colleague, once said that Jobs "would have made an excellent king of France",
alluding to Jobs's compelling and larger-than-life persona. Floyd Norman said that at Pixar, Jobs was a "mature, mellow
individual" and never interfered with the creative process of the filmmakers.
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Personal Life
In the 1980s, Jobs found his birth mother, Joanne Schieble Simpson, who told him he had a biological sister, Mona Simpson.
They met for the first time in 1985, and became close friends. The siblings kept their relationship secret until 1986, when Mona
introduced him at a party for her first book.
After deciding to search for their father, Simpson found Jandali managing a coffee shop. Without knowing who his son had
become, Jandali told Mona that he had previously managed a popular restaurant in the Silicon Valley, mentioning that "even
Steve Jobs used to eat there. Yeah, he was a great tipper." In a taped interview with his biographer Walter Isaacson, aired on 60
Minutes,[180] Jobs said: "When I was looking for my biological mother, obviously, you know, I was looking for my biological
father at the same time, and I learned a little bit about him and I didn't like what I learned. I asked her to not tell him that we ever
met...not tell him anything about me." Jobs was occasionally in touch with his mother Joanne Simpson, who lives in a nursing
home in Los Angeles. When speaking about his biological parents, Jobs stated: "They were my sperm and egg bank. That's not
harsh, it's just the way it was, a sperm bank thing, nothing more." In an August 2011 interview with The Sun, Jandali stated that
his efforts to contact Jobs were unsuccessful. Jandali mailed in his medical history after Jobs's pancreatic disorder was made
public that year.
In her eulogy to Jobs at his memorial service, Mona Simpson stated:
I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria,
I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet
furnished apartment) and help us. Later, after I'd met my father, I tried to believe he'd changed his number and left no forwarding
address because he was an idealistic revolutionary, plotting a new world for the Arab people. Even as a feminist, my whole life
I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I
met that man and he was my brother.
Jobs's first child, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, was born in 1978, the daughter of his longtime partner Chrisann Brennan, a Bay Area
painter. For two years, she raised their daughter on welfare while Jobs denied paternity by claiming he was sterile; he later
acknowledged Lisa as his daughter. Jobs later married Laurene Powell on March 18, 1991, in a ceremony at the Ahwahnee
Hotel in Yosemite National Park. Presiding over the wedding was Kobun Chino Otogawa, a Zen Buddhist monk. Their son,
Reed, was born September 1991, followed by daughters Erin in August 1995 and Eve in 1998. The family lived in Palo Alto,
California.
Jobs dated Joan Baez for a few years. Elizabeth Holmes, a friend of Jobs from his time at Reed College, believed Jobs was
interested in Baez because she had been the lover of Bob Dylan, who was Jobs' favorite musician. Jobs confided in Joanna
Hoffman his concerns about the relationship, and she would later tell his official biographer: "She was a strong woman, and he
wanted to show he was in control. Plus, he always said he wanted to have a family, and with her he knew that he wouldn't".
Jobs was also a fan of The Beatles. He referred to them on multiple occasions at Keynotes and was also interviewed on a
showing of a Paul McCartney concert. When asked about his business model on 60 Minutes, he replied:
My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced
each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are never done by one person, they are
done by a team of people.
In 1982, Jobs bought an apartment in The San Remo, an apartment building in New York City with a politically progressive
reputation, where Demi Moore, Steven Spielberg, Steve Martin, and Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, daughter of Rita Hayworth,
also owned apartments. With the help of I. M. Pei, Jobs spent years renovating his apartment in the top two floors of the
building's north tower, only to sell it almost two decades later to U2 singer Bono. Jobs never moved in.
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Death
Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California, home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, due to complications from a relapse of his
previously treated islet-cell neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer, resulting in respiratory arrest. He had lost consciousness the day
before, and died with his wife, children, and sisters at his side.
Both Apple and Microsoft flew their flags at half-staff throughout their respective headquarters and campuses. Bob Iger ordered
all Disney properties, including Walt Disney World and Disneyland, to fly their flags at half-staff from October 6 to 12, 2011.
His death was announced by Apple in a statement which read:
We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.
Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The
world is immeasurably better because of Steve.
His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his
extraordinary gifts.
For two weeks following his death, Apple's corporate Web site displayed a simple page, showing Jobs's name and lifespan next
to his grayscale portrait. Clicking on the image led to an obituary, which read:
Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been
fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company
that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.
An email address was also posted for the public to share their memories, condolences, and thoughts. Over a million tributes
were sent, which are now displayed on the Steve Jobs memorial page.
Also dedicating its homepage to Jobs was Pixar, with a photo of Jobs, John Lasseter and Edwin Catmull, and the eulogy they
wrote:
Steve was an extraordinary visionary, our very dear friend, and our guiding light of the Pixar family. He saw the potential of what
Pixar could be before the rest of us, and beyond what anyone ever imagined. Steve took a chance on us and believed in our
crazy dream of making computer animated films; the one thing he always said was to 'make it great.' He is why Pixar turned out
the way we did and his strength, integrity, and love of life has made us all better people. He will forever be part of Pixar's DNA.
Our hearts go out to his wife Laurene and their children during this incredibly difficult time.
A small private funeral was held on October 7, 2011, of which details were not revealed out of respect to Jobs's family. Apple
announced on the same day that they had no plans for a public service, but were encouraging "well-wishers" to send their
remembrance messages to an email address created to receive such messages. Sunday, October 16, 2011, was declared
"Steve Jobs Day" by Governor Jerry Brown of California. On that day, an invitation-only memorial was held at Stanford
University. Those in attendance included Apple and other tech company executives, members of the media, celebrities, close
friends of Jobs, and politicians, along with Jobs's family. Bono, Yo Yo Ma, and Joan Baez performed at the service, which lasted
longer than an hour. The service was highly secured, with guards at all of the university's gates, and a helicopter flying overhead
from an area news station.
A private memorial service for Apple employees was held on October 19, 2011, on the Apple Campus in Cupertino. Present
were Cook, Bill Campbell, Norah Jones, Al Gore, and Coldplay, and Jobs's widow, Laurene. Some of Apple's retail stores closed
briefly so employees could attend the memorial. A video of the service is available on Apple's website.
Jobs is buried in an unmarked grave at Alta Mesa Memorial Park, the only non-denominational cemetery in Palo Alto. He is
survived by Laurene, his wife of 20 years, their three children, and Lisa Brennan-Jobs, his daughter from a previous relationship.
His family released a statement saying that he "died peacefully". His sister, Mona Simpson, described his passing thus: "Steve's
final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times. Before embarking, he'd looked at his sister Patty, then for a
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long time at his children, then at his life's partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them. Steve's final words were:
OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW." He then lost consciousness and died several hours later.
Media Coverage
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Steve Jobs's death broke news headlines on ABC, CBS, and NBC. Numerous newspapers around the world carried news of his
death on their front pages the next day. Several notable people, including US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister
David Cameron,Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and The Walt Disney Company's Bob Iger commented on the death of Jobs. Wired
News collected reactions and posted them in tribute on their homepage. Other statements of condolence were made by many of
Jobs's friends and colleagues, such as Steve Wozniak and George Lucas. After Steve Jobs's death, Adult Swim aired a 15-
second segment with the words "hello" in a script font fading in and then changing into "goodbye".
Major media published commemorative works. Time published a commemorative issue for Jobs on October 8, 2011. The issue's
cover featured a portrait of Jobs, taken by Norman Seeff, in which he is sitting in the lotus position holding the original Macintosh
computer, first published in Rolling Stone in January 1984. The issue marked the eighth time Jobs was featured on the cover of
Time, and included a photographic essay by Diana Walker, a retrospective on Apple by Harry McCracken and Lev Grossman,
and a six-page essay by Walter Isaacson. Isaacson's essay served as a preview of his biography, Steve Jobs.
Bloomberg Businessweek also published a commemorative, ad-free issue, featuring extensive essays by Steve Jurvetson, John
Sculley, Sean Wisely, William Gibson, and Walter Isaacson. On its cover, Steve Jobs is pictured in gray scale, along with his
name and lifespan.
At the time of his resignation, and again after his death, Jobs was widely described as a 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 who was an "exemplar for all chief executives". His death
was widely mourned and considered a loss to the world by commentators across the globe.
After his resignation as Apple's CEO, Jobs was characterized as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of his time. In his The Daily
Show eulogy, Jon Stewart said that unlike others of Jobs's ilk, such as Thomas Edison or Henry Ford, Jobs died young. He felt
that we had, in a sense, "wrung everything out of" these other men, but his feeling on Jobs was that "we're not done with you
yet." Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker asserted that "Jobs's sensibility was editorial, not inventive. His gift lay in taking what
was in front of him ... and ruthlessly refining it."
There was also a dissenting tone in some coverage of Jobs' life and works in the media, where attention focused on his near-
fanatical control mindset and business ruthlessness. A Los Angeles Times media critic reported that the eulogies "came courtesy
of reporters who-after deadline and off the record-would tell stories about a company obsessed with secrecy to the point of
paranoia. They remind us how Apple shut down a youthful fanboy blogger, punished a publisher that dared to print an
unauthorized Jobs biography and repeatedly ran afoul of the most basic tenets of a free press." Free software pioneer Richard
Stallman drew attention to Apple's strategy of tight corporate control over consumer computers and handheld devices, how
Apple restricted news reporters, and persistently violated privacy: "Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool,
designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died". On his blog, Stallman has summarized Jobs as having a "malign
influence" on computing because of his leadership in guiding Apple to produce closed platforms. Silicon Valley reporter Dan
Gillmor stated that under Jobs, Apple had taken stances that in his view were "outright hostile to the practice of journalism" -
these included suing three "small fry" bloggers who reported tips about the company and its unreleased products including
attempts to use the courts to force them to reveal their sources, suing teenager Nicholas Ciarelli, who wrote enthusiastic
speculation about Apple products beginning at age 13 (Rainey wrote that Apple wanted to kill his 'ThinkSecret' blog as "It
thought any leaks, even favorable ones, diluted the punch of its highly choreographed product launches with Jobs, in his iconic
jeans and mock turtleneck outfit, as the star.").
Some have compared Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie who died a week later, and the respective media coverage of their deaths.
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Honors and Public Recognition
After Apple's founding, Jobs became a symbol of his company and industry. When Time named the computer as the 1982
"Machine of the Year", the magazine published a long profile of Jobs as "the most famous maestro of the micro".
Jobs was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, with Steve Wozniak (among the first
people to ever receive the honor), and a Jefferson Award for Public Service in the category "Greatest Public Service by an
Individual 35 Years or Under" (also known as the Samuel S. Beard Award) in 1987. On November 27, 2007, Jobs was named
the most powerful person in business by Fortune magazine. On December 5, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Jobs into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History,
Women and the Arts.
In August 2009, Jobs was selected as the most admired entrepreneur among teenagers in a survey by Junior Achievement,[303]
having previously been named Entrepreneur of the Decade 20 years earlier in 1989, by Inc. magazine.[304] On November 5,
2009, Jobs was named the CEO of the decade by Fortune magazine.
In November 2010, Jobs was ranked No.17 on Forbes: The World's Most Powerful People. In December 2010, the Financial
Times named Jobs its person of the year for 2010, ending its essay by stating, "In his autobiography, John Sculley, the former
PepsiCo executive who once ran Apple, said this of the ambitions of the man he had pushed out: 'Apple was supposed to
become a wonderful consumer products company. This was a lunatic plan. High-tech could not be designed and sold as a
consumer product.'" The Financial Times closed by rhetorically asking of this quote, "How wrong can you be."
On December 21, 2011, Graphisoft company in Budapest presented the world's first bronze statue of Steve Jobs, calling him
one of the greatest personalities of the modern age.
In January 2012, when young adults (ages 16 - 25) were asked to identify the greatest innovator of all time, Steve Jobs placed
second behind Thomas Edison.
On February 12, 2012, Jobs was posthumously awarded the Grammy Trustees Award, an award for those who have influenced
the music industry in areas unrelated to performance.
In March 2012, global business magazine Fortune named Steve Jobs the "greatest entrepreneur of our time", describing him as
"brilliant, visionary, inspiring", and "the quintessential entrepreneur of our generation".
Two films, Disney's John Carter and Pixar's Brave, are dedicated to Jobs.
Steve Jobs was posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend on August 10, 2013.
In February 2014, and according to a list of upcoming subjects published by The Washington Post, U.S. Postal Service approved
that Steve Jobs will get a limited release postage stamp in 2015.
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