The Apple co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs has died. He was 56 years old. This has given the company announced on its website.According to his relatives, he died peacefully with his family. Jobs leaves a wife, four children and two sisters.
"I must tell you something very sad," Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook wrote in an e-mail to the 49,000 employees of the company. "Steve died today. Apple has lost a visionary and a creative genius and the world an extraordinary person. Those of us who were fortunate to know Steve or worked with him have lost a good friend and inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that could build only he and his soul will forever be the foundation of Apple. There are no adequate words for our sadness over the death of Steve. "
Jobs have long suffered from health problems after he underwent in August 2004 due to a rare form of pancreatic cancer surgery. In January, Apple announced an indefinite time out of his former CEO, who handed over the post in late August to Tim Cook, and instead took over the chairmanship of the Supervisory Board.
In 2009, Jobs had already withdrawn over a period of six months from the day to day business. During this time he received a new liver. He returned for one and a half years at the top firms. "I've always said that if ever the day comes that I no longer fulfill my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO can, I'll be the first to inform you about it. Unfortunately, come this day," Jobs wrote in August a letter to the Supervisory Board, which he announced his resignation.
Jobs is one of the most successful businessmen in U.S. history. In his 35 years in the technology industry, he introduced three different markets on its head. With the 1977 release of the Apple II, his company invented personal computing. With iPod and iTunes Jobs led a successful business model for legal music downloads and mobile phone market was following the market launch of the iPhone in 2007 no longer as before. A capstone he set in 2010 with the iPad, which dominates the market for tablet computers since almost unrivaled.
Friends, companions and competitors alike mourn for Steve Jobs. "Sometimes people pursue their goals in life," said Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to the Los Angeles Times . "Steve Jobs surpassed every goal he has ever set." Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates writes in a statement: "The world rarely seen someone who has such a profound impact as Steve, and whose effects can still be felt for many generations to come will be for those of us who were lucky with him. cooperate. An insanely great honor I will miss Steve was immense. " The Microsoft boss quoting the deceased, the new Apple products are often touted as "insanely great".
