Steve Jobs and Apple – the highlights, in pictures

Steve Jobs has died in California aged 56. He founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in the 1970s and had an epic career that included his ousting from the company and triumphant return to make Apple one of the world's biggest and most profitable companies outright
  
  


steve jobs dies: Circa 1976: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak with their original Apple I
Circa 1976: Steve Jobs, right, and Steve Wozniak with their original kit-form computer, the Apple I Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters
steve jobs dies: 16 or 17 April 1977: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
16 or 17 April 1977: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, co-founders of Apple Computer Inc, at the first West Coast Computer Faire, where the Apple II computer made its debut in Brooks Hall, San Francisco, California Photograph: Tom Munnecke/Getty
steve jobs dies: 24 April 1984: Steve Jobs, John Sculley and Steve Wozniak
24 April 1984: Steve Jobs, chairman of Apple Computers, John Sculley, president and CEO, and Steve Wozniak, co-founder, unveil the new Apple IIc computer in San Francisco Photograph: Sal Veder/AP
steve jobs dies: 16 January 1984: Jobs with John Sculley, who eventually ousted Jobs
16 January 1984: Jobs with former Pepsi chief John Sculley, who became head of Apple and eventually ousted Jobs from the company after a bitter power struggle Photograph: Marilyn K Yee/Getty
steve jobs dies: 1984: Jobs with his rival Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
1984: Jobs with his rival Bill Gates (right), co-founder of Microsoft, during an interview in New York Photograph: Andy Freeberg/Getty
steve jobs dies: 1984: Steve Jobs in a bow tie as he unveiled the Apple Macintosh
1984: Steve Jobs in a bow tie as he unveiled the Apple Macintosh to the world Photograph: Cindy Charles/Getty
steve jobs dies: 1984: Steve Jobs with the Macintosh 128k, the original Macintosh computer
1984: Steve Jobs with the Macintosh 128k, the original Macintosh computer from Apple Photograph: Bernard Gotfryd/Getty
steve jobs dies: 30 March 1989: Steve Jobs as chairman of NeXT Computer
30 March 1989: Steve Jobs as chairman of NeXT Computer, which he founded after Apple kicked him out. Apple eventually bought the company and its technology when Jobs returned, and the current Mac OS X operating system is partly based on it Photograph: Paul Sakuma/AP
steve jobs dies: 1998: Jobs holds the iMac at the all-in-one computer's launch in California
18 May 1998: Jobs, by now reinstated at Apple, holds an iMac at the all-in-one computer's launch in California that helped to revive the company's fortunes Photograph: Moshe Brakha/Getty
steve jobs dies: 7 September 2005: Steve Jobs introduces the iPod nano
7 September 2005: Jobs introduces the iPod nano, launched along with the fifth generation iPod that was the first to display video Photograph: Lou Dematteis/Reuters
steve jobs dies: 6 October 2011: Jobs with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister
30 July 2006: Jobs with Tony Blair, the then UK prime minister (right), at a meeting of Silicon Valley executives in San Jose, California Photograph: Reuters
steve jobs dies: 9 September 2008: Jobs makes light of his ill health at an Apple event
9 September 2008: Jobs makes light of his ill health at an Apple event in San Francisco Photograph: Robert Galbraith/Reuters
steve jobs dies: 27 January 2010: Jobs holds the Apple iPad at its San Francisco launch
27 January 2010: Jobs holds the Apple iPad at its San Francisco launch Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters
steve jobs dies: June 7 2010: Jobs shows off the iPhone 4 in San Francisco
7 June 2010: Jobs shows off the iPhone 4 in San Francisco Photograph: Robert Galbraith/Reuters
steve jobs dies: Flowers, candles and an iPhone
6 October 2011: Flowers, candles and an iPhone form an impromptu tribute in front of the upper west side Apple Store in New York as news spreads that Steve Jobs has died from pancreatic cancer Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters
steve jobs dies: October 5 2011: An iPad showing Apple's homepage tribute to Steve Jobs
October 5 2011: An iPad 2 showing Apple's homepage tribute to Steve Jobs Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP
 

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