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MacChat: Steve does great Jobs
PLE CEO Steve Jobs has been named Fortune magazine’s CEO of the Decade, and it’s hard to imagine a more worthy candidate.
The man who gave us the personal computer, graphical user interface and mouse has, in the past 10 years, redefined the entertainment and mobile communications industries with the iPod and iPhone, driven computer innovation with the Mac and Mac OS X and brought Apple back from the brink of destruction to become the second-biggest technology company after Microsoft.
Along the way, he found time to build up animation studio Pixar into a powerhouse that attracted Walt Disney.
Jobs had personal battles too, surviving a brush with cancer in 2004 and then complications which saw him receive a liver transplant earlier this year.
While Apple products inspire a religious devotion in their users, Jobs is something of a cult figure himself. Cast out into the wilderness in 1985 by the company he co-founded, he had a second coming in 1996 as its saviour when it was on the brink of bankruptcy.
The original iMac, launched in 1998, helped keep the company alive and from 2001 it was full steam ahead.
Upon Jobs’ return, Dell founder Michael Dell famously suggested he shut down the company and give the money back to the shareholders. Jobs responded by drawing a target over a picture of Dell and saying: ``We’re coming to get you.’’
Apple is now worth six times as much as Dell and has enough cash on hand to buy Dell outright.
Below is a look back at the Decade of Jobs and Apple:
January 2001: iTunes for Mac OS 9
March 2001: Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah, iTunes for Mac OS X
September 2001: Mac OS X 10.1 Puma
October 2001: Original iPod (Mac only)
January 2002: Flat-panel iMac
August 2002: Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar
January 2003: Safari web browser for Mac
April 2003: iTunes Store (Mac only)
October 2003: iTunes for Windows, Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
January 2004: iPod mini
July 2004: Jobs undergoes surgery for pancreatic cancer, appears on cover of Newsweek with 4G iPod
January 2005: iPod shuffle
April 2005: Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
June 2005: Jobs announces the Mac is moving to Intel processors
September 2005: iPod nano
October 2005: iTunes Store launches in Australia, movies and TV shows added to iTunes Store US
January 2006: First Intel Macs launch, Macworld, Disney buys Pixar
February 2006: MacBook Pro replaces PowerBook
April 2006: Boot Camp beta enables Windows on Intel Macs
May 2006: MacBook replaces iBook
June 2007: iPhone released in US, Safari for Windows
September 2007: iPod touch
October 2007: Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
January 2008: ``World’s thinnest notebook’’ MacBook Air
June 2008: TV shows added to iTunes Store Australia
July 2008: iPhone 3G is released worldwide, App Store launches
August 2008: Movies added to iTunes Store Australia
August 2008: Amid concerns over Jobs’ gaunt appearance, Bloomberg accidentally publishes his obituary
January 2009: Jobs begins six months’ medical leave, Apple share price plunges below $US80
April 2009: App Store’s billionth download
June 2009: iPhone 3GS released
August 2009: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
October 2009: Apple share price reaches all-time high of $US205
November 2009: App Store passes 100,000 apps
Source: Wikipedia
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