Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Why was Steve Jobs important?

Jobs
was important for many reasons. For instance, as one of the founders of Apple, Jobs created what
has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Through the Macintosh computer, Jobs
created a product that made computing significantly easier and paved the way for the development
of Windows and other graphical user interfaces. As the head of NeXT, Jobs created a UNIX-based
operating system that became the basis for all modern Mac and iOS devices, like the iPhone. Of
course, the iPhone, and other devices that share its touch screen interface, has made computing
virtually ubiquitous. We have yet to fully understand the implications of the always connected
culture the iPhone helped make possible.

Underneath all Jobs's achievements,
however, were a few basic ideas that shaped how computing developed. First, Jobs saw that
computing had to be intuitive. While he did not invent the graphical user interface, Jobs
understood how theof files and folders...

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