For those who haven't heard the news, Mr. Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computers passed away last night at the age of 56. So today's blog will be all about him.
Born on February 24th, 1955 out of wedlock and gave up for adoption. He was a college drop out crashed on friends floors for a place to sleep. He collected coke bottles for spending money and for food money when he wasn't getting free meals from the local Hare Krishna temple.
After leaving Apple in 1985, he founded NeXT computer which Apple acquired in 1997 and brought Steve back to Apple to become CEO. In 1986, Steve bought The Graphics Group (later named Pixar) from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for $10 million. Pixar partnered up with Disney to produce many great animation movies such as WALL-E, Cars, Toy Story 2 and this list continues. On January 24th 2006, Disney purchased Pixar for $7.4 billion. Once the deal closed, Steve became the largest single shareholder of The Walt Disney Company with 7% of the company's stock.
After returning to Apple, Steve helped launch the company into a new era of technology that most, if not all, of us have had the privileged of owning and/or using. What a tribute too that most of us learned of Steve's passing on one of the devises he help create. He is also listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor in 338 US patents which include speakers, keyboards, power adapters, and the list goes on.
He passed away on October 5th, 2011 from a fight against Pancreatic cancer. He leaves behind his wife and 4 children and a legacy that will never be forgotten.
And as Kevin Smith said on Twitter "Steve Jobs! Thanks for never settling for the way things were during a life you spent showing us how things could be. O Captain! My captain!"
"Have the courage to follow your heart & intuition. They already know what u truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." - Steve Jobs
~ JB
The last and final code for Fruit Ninja Kinect is JX29C
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