It’s hard to imagine what almost everyone’s life would be like if Steve Jobs hadn’t founded Apple. The tech giant is polarizing, but you can’t argue that it hasn’t changed the face of multiple industries, including smartphones. Unfortunately, Mr. Jobs would not have been able to see the current status of the trillion-dollar company he co-founded with Steve Wozniak in 1976, and if Mr. Jobs were like us today, his 69 He must be celebrating his birthday.
Steve Jobs died in 2011 at the age of 56
Before Apple became known for the iPhone, when its smartphone division accounted for most of its revenue, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started the company with a desktop computer called the Macintosh. It was released in 1984, and its successor, the Macintosh II, was announced soon after. However, Jobs’ relationship with Apple’s board of directors and CEO John Sculley was fraught.
Steve Jobs was subsequently fired from Apple in a joint decision, but returned in 1997, when the company was in trouble, losing money and on the verge of bankruptcy. Teaming with former industrial design chief Jony Ive, Jobs created products that are iconic in both design and functionality, and has now transformed the California-based giant into one of the world’s largest technology companies. promoted to a high position.
Of course, how can we forget when Jobs first introduced Apple’s iPhone in 2007? Before that, we learned that smartphones looked and functioned very differently than they do today. I remember it clearly. In addition to the iPhone, Jobs also introduced a high-performance tablet to the market, displacing his compact and much slower Netbook, but soon after, rival companies imitated what his Apple had released earlier. and began to materialize its own products.
Tim Cook replaced Steve Jobs as Apple’s CEO in 2011, and under his leadership the company’s sales and profits doubled, taking its market value from $348 billion to $1.9 trillion. It is reported that the number has increased to . Mr Cook shared a heartwarming message to X on the microblogging social media platform, honoring his friend, former boss and mentor, remembering what could have been his 69th birthday.
I remember my friend Steve on his birthday. About the lives he touched, the vision he shared, and the deep impact he had on our world. “We are here to cast a stone in the universe. Otherwise, why are we here?”
