STEVE JOBS
Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur and business magnate. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and a co-founder of Apple Inc.; chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company’s board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 and gained fame and wealth a year later for the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers, followed by the breakthrough Macintosh in 1984, which introduced the desktop publishing industry in 1985 with the addition of the Apple LaserWriter. He worked closely with designer Jony Ive to develop a line of products that had larger cultural ramifications beginning in 1997, such as the iMac, iTunes, iTunes Store, Apple Store, iPod, iPhone, App Store, and the iPad. (More from Wikipedia)
The celebration of the 10th anniversary this year of the introduction by Apple Computers of their earthshaking personal device, the iPhone let me know that Steve Jobs referenced Green Day in his original announcement about the iPhone. While demonstrating its features on January 9, 2007, he flashed the album art for American Idiot to the audience and played a brief excerpt from “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”.
(June 2017)
