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Steve Jobs Dies at 56

Just a day after Apple revealed its iPhone 4s, co-founder Steve Jobs passed away. Whether you’re an Apple fanatic or not, if you’re under the age of 40, Jobs probably changed your world. Even if  you carry a Zune, chances are you wouldn’t have an mp3 player at all without the iPod. What would all those Android phones be without the iPhone? And then, of course, there is the iPad… Without Steve Jobs we’d all still be reading news at our desktops, and we wouldn’t have an “app for that.” CNN reports:

“Steve Jobs is one of the great innovators in the history of modern capitalism,” New York Times columnist Joe Nocera said in August. “His intuition has been phenomenal over the years.”

Jobs’ death, while dreaded by Apple’s legions of fans, was not unexpected. He had battled cancer for years, took a medical leave from Apple in January and stepped down as chief executive in August because he could “no longer meet (his) duties and expectations.”

 

 

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FT Names Steve Jobs Man of the Year

Creating entire new markets — I guess that’s a pretty good reason to give Jobs the honor:

“More than two thirds of Apple’s sales come from products that didn’t exist eight years ago.  And they come from markets that barely existed, if at all, until Jobs breathed life into them, such as digital media players, touchscreen smartphones and tablet computers.”

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