Steve grew up with an adopted family in Silicon Valley, which was turning from orchards to homes for Lockheed and other defense and technology companies.
Electronics friend Bill Fernandez introduced him to boy Engineer Woznaik, and the two Steves began a friendship that eventually bred Apple Computer.
“Woz is a brilliant engineer, but he is not really an entrepreneur, and that’s where Jobs came in”..Frenandez
“Steve Jobs is the most successful CEO in the US of the last 25 years” said Google Inc Chairman Eric Schmidt, who used to sit on Apple’s board but stepped down because of overlapping business interests.
“He uniquely combined an artist’s touch and an engineer’s vision to build an extraordinary company, one of the greatest American leaders in history,” Schmidt said in a statement.
A college dropout, Jobs floated through India in search of spiritual guidance prior to founding Apple -a name he suggested to his friend and co-founder Steve Wozniak after a visit to a commune in Oregon he referred to as an “apple orchard.”
With his passion for minimalist design and marketing genius, Jobs changed the course of personal computing during two stints at Apple and transformed the mobile market.
The iconic iPod, the iPhone- dubbed the “Jesus phone” for its quasi-religious following – and the iPad are the creation of a man known for his near-obsessive control of the product development process.
“Most mere mortals cannot understand a person like Steve Jobs,” Guy Kawasaki, a former Apple employee who considers Jobs “the greatest CEO in the history of man”, said recently. “He’s just got a different operating system.”
“Steve Jobs is the business genius of our generation,” former eBay Inc chief Meg Whitman said recently. “His contributions to Apple, his contributions to technology, frankly his contributions to America, are unparalleled in the business world. He is amazing.”
Former nemesis Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, has called Jobs the most inspiring person in the tech industry and President Barack Obama has held him up as the embodiment of the American Dream.
It’s hard to imagine a bigger success story than Steve Jobs, but rejection, failure and bad fate have been part and parcel of who he is. Jobs was given away at birth, driven out of Apple in the mid-80s and struck with cancer when he finally had regained the top of the mountain. His resignation as CEO on Wednesday comes at the relatively young age of 56.
“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come,” he said in a brief letter announcing his resignation.
His ride for success wasn't easy but he bared all the difficulties of life to achieve something that he wanted to achieve.
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