{"id":13130,"date":"2011-10-06T11:46:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T10:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13130"},"modified":"2011-10-06T14:38:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T13:38:56","slug":"steve-jobs-1955-2011-apple-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/10\/06\/steve-jobs-1955-2011-apple-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs 1955-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The co-founder and former CEO of Apple died yesterday at the age of 56.<\/p>\n

It says much about the impact of Steve Jobs<\/a><\/strong> on technology and culture that news of his death made headlines around the world.<\/p>\n

Last night as the news broke my Twitter feed lit up with tributes (including the above logo by designer Jonathan Mak<\/a>) and perhaps his true legacy lies in the fact that many of those tributes were written on devices made by his company.<\/p>\n

When he stood down as CEO in August, Apple lost an inspirational leader who helped create it in the 1970s<\/a>, save it in the late 1990s<\/a> and then engineer one of the most remarkable corporate turnarounds in history.<\/p>\n

As one of the key players in the computer revolution of the last forty years, he has played an instrumental role in how we use technical devices, listen to music and watch entertainment.<\/p>\n

His first period at Apple (1976-1985)<\/a> saw him co-found a company which helped introduce the idea of graphics based computing into the mainstream.<\/p>\n

The three-part PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires<\/a> (1996) gives some background to the revolutionary industry of which Apple was a part:<\/p>\n