World bids adieu to IT colossus
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The world is now Jobs-less.

Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology and everyday lives, died Wednesday. He was 56.

The entire world mourned Jobs’ death, including Korea, where the latest technology has a special place, being home to some of the world’s biggest IT companies. Corporations released statements and fans paid tribute to his life and work.

Samsung Electronics, which is both a fierce rival and a close partner of Apple’s, said yesterday that it was saddened by the death of Jobs.

“Steve Jobs introduced numerous revolutionary changes to the information technology industry and was a great entrepreneur,” Choi Gee-sung, the chief executive and vice chairman of Samsung Electronics, said in a statement. “His innovative spirit and remarkable accomplishments will forever be remembered by people around the world.”

 
  From left : Steve Jobs with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak; Jobs with the iMac, which brought design to the foreground in personal computing; “Toy Story,” the world’s first feature-length CGI film, was created by Pixar when Jobs served as both president and its single-largest shareholder.

Apple and Samsung - the world’s No. 1 and No. 2 smartphone makers - have been embroiled in numerous lawsuits since April over smartphones and tablets.

LG Electronics said in a statement: “We express our condolences on the death of Steve Jobs, who was a genius who brought revolutions to the IT industry.”

Ahn Cheol-soo, doctor-turned-software mogul, who is also the dean of the Seoul National University Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, compared Jobs to American inventor Thomas Edison.

“Edison died 80 years ago, but people still remember him [as a historic inventor],” he said. “Likewise, Jobs will be remembered in the hearts of everyone after 100 years.”

Within hours of the announcement of Jobs’ death after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, Korean netizens posted online tributes. A special memorial page was set up at Daum’s Agora, one of the largest Internet bulletin boards in Korea.

The tributes spread quickly via social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Fans posted past speeches by Jobs and their thoughts on his contributions to the world as an unprecedented innovator and creator.

“As one of the most influential people in the world, may his inspiration and words live on,” a Facebook user posted.

 
  Top: Jobs silhouetted against an Apple logo. Far left: Introducing the iPad, which revolutionized the IT industry. Right: Holding up a white version of the iPhone. Apple not only introduced smartphones to the world, but revolutionized people’s lifestyles.

Another online user wrote, “In memory of the late Steve Jobs, would people wear black turtlenecks and jeans for a day? I would,” referring to the Jobs’ signature outfit.

There were also attempts by Korean Web users to re-evaluate the iPhone 4S in the wake of Jobs’ death. The new iPhone was unveiled Tuesday in the United States. Some argued that they would purchase the device because it is “Jobs’ posthumous work.” Others took the opposite line, saying that they don’t want the phone because “Jobs would’ve made it better.”

Steven Paul Jobs was born Feb. 24, 1955, in San Francisco to Joanne Simpson, then an unmarried graduate student, and Abdulfattah Jandali, a student from Syria. Simpson gave Jobs up for adoption to Clara and Paul Jobs of Los Altos, California, a working-class couple who nurtured his early interest in electronics. He saw his first computer terminal at NASA’s Ames Research Center when he was around 11 and landed a summer job at Hewlett-Packard before he had finished high school.

Jobs enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon, in 1972 but dropped out after six months.

Jobs started Apple with a high school friend in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976, was forced out a decade later and returned in 1997 to rescue the company. During his second stint, it grew into the most valuable technology company in the world with a market value of $351 billion. Almost all that wealth has been created since Jobs’ return. (Full chronology on Page 4).

Cultivating Apple’s countercultural sensibility and a minimalist design ethic, Jobs rolled out one sensational product after another, even in the face of the late-2000s recession and his own failing health.

He helped change computers from a geeky hobbyist’s obsession to a necessity of modern life at work and home, and in the process he upended not just personal technology but the cellphone and music industries.

Jobs had battled cancer in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant in 2009 after taking a leave of absence for unspecified health problems. He took another leave of absence in January - his third since his health problems began - before resigning as CEO six weeks ago.

 
   

By Kim Hyung-eun, Lee Eun-joo, AP [hkim@joongang.co.kr]


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