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Remembering Apple CEO Steve Jobs on His Birthday

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Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, and had he not passed away in 2011 at the age of 56, today would have been his 68th birthday. Every year on the 24th of February, we remember Jobs and all that he did to turn Apple into the wildly successful company that it is today.

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Jobs founded Apple alongside Steve Wozniak in 1976, launching the Apple-1 that would revolutionize the personal computer. The Apple II followed, as did the Lisa, the Macintosh, and other early machines that defined Apple at the time. Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985 and founded NeXT, but Apple floundered without him.

Apple purchased NeXT in 1997 to bring Jobs back on board, and he worked his magic once again, overseeing the launch of the iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook, iMac, and tons more, along with services that include iTunes and the App Store. Jobs oversaw the debut of Apple's most popular devices, and his passion and drive for perfection continue to shape Apple even today.

Apple CEO Tim Cook often says that Jobs' DNA, including his taste, thinking, dedication to hard work, and lust for innovation will always be "the foundation of Apple." Jobs has touched innumerable lives and there is no Apple product on the market today that was not influenced by his philosophies.

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The iPhone, iPad, and Mac lines continue to be incredibly popular with more than two billion active devices worldwide, and Cook has built on Jobs' legacy with new products like the AirPods, Apple Watch, and even the AR/VR headset expected later this year.

MacRumors would not be here today without Jobs and the company that he built, so it is fitting that MacRumors shares a birthday with the Apple founder. MacRumors was created on February 24, 2000, by Arnold Kim, and 23 years later, it continues to be the number one Apple news site.

We here at MacRumors are grateful to all of our dedicated readers, enthusiastic community members, and volunteers, and we look forward to bringing you the best Apple news and rumors each and every day.

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I wonder, what and how things would be different if Steve was still among us. Still making dents in the universe?
He got the right people together to get the better out of technology. So few people are capable of doing that.
 
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Powerbooky said:
I wonder, what and how things would be different if Steve was still among us. Still making dents in the universe?
He got the right people together to get the better out of technology. So few people are capable of doing that.
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He may not be very popular lately, but currently mainly Elon Musk comes to mind.
He seems to be able to get the right people to try and rethink every part, instead of just optimizing what is already there.
 
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I can never forgive Steve. Not because I didn't like what he did with Apple, but because how he left it with Tim and not Jony.

Tim runs Apple like Steve Ballmer used to run Microsoft.. we all know how it ends.
 
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Remember the story when he threw the iPod into the aquarium and said “see the bubbles coming out? There is air inside, which means there is space” when someone told him “we cannot make it any smaller”.

I am wondering what he would say today if someone told him “there is no way we can eliminate the notch”
 
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I was blessed to live all the history making keynotes Steve made. He could literally change the world in any of them. He had such a powerful vision and focus no one has ever matched. The day he passed away the magic started to fade, but I still feel I had the amazing luck to live and experience the amazing products and services apple made back on those days. We miss you Steve, who knows how the world would be like if you had stayed with us, it would be amazing for sure.
 
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Some would say they miss his magic, others his reality distortion field!

But I miss his stage presence, he was a damn good salesman and presented products in a way to get you excited. I also don't believe he would be targeting profits first as much as Apple does now despite their wealth, and we would have had more innovation, as opposed to incremental updates.
But hey ho it is what it is and I'm still buying Apple products so....

He has given the world the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch (I think that was developed under him?) and Mac.
 
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Remember the story when he threw the iPod into the aquarium and said “see the bubbles coming out? There is air inside, which means there is space” when someone told him “we cannot make it any thinner”.

I am wondering what he would say today if someone told him “there is no way we can eliminate the notch”
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He would never let the iPhone to come out with that in the first place.
 
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