Today is Steve Jobs’ birthday; he’d be 60 if he were still alive. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, took to Twitter to remember his friend and mentor. He wrote, “Remembering Steve, who would have turned 60 today. ‘The only way to do great work is to love what you do,’” which is a line straight out of the commencement address Steve gave at Stanford in 2005.
Steve Jobs was suffering from illness and stepped down in August 2011, handing the reins over to Tim Cook, who had worked before as Apple’s COO. Jobs died in October of that year of pancreatic cancer.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak met in 1971 through a mutual friend and the engineer (Woz) came up with a novel way to make long distance phone calls for free. They sold hundreds of models. Their next project was computers. The first version, Apple I, was just basically a TV as a display, bootstrap code on ROM, and a cassette interface. They quickly moved on to Apple II and the first one sold in 1977 for $660 and they were the company Apple Computers. Since then, lots has changed, but Jobs was always known for his drive and vision.
