Apple’s Steve Jobs has Died

Apple’s Steve Jobs has died from cancer at the age of 56, a premature end for a visionary who revolutionised modern culture and changed forever the world’s relationship to technology through inventions such as the iPad and iPhone.

“We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today,” the California-based gadget-maker’s board of directors said in a statement released after his death on Wednesday, surrounded by his family. “Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.”Tributes flowed in from around the world for Jobs, while Apple fans flooded social networking sites to voice their sorrow at the passing of the man who helped put mini computers in the shape of phones in millions of pockets.Ordinary people, many of whom learned of his death on their iPhones and iPads, swamped Twitter using the trending hashtag #thankyousteve to pay tribute to Jobs “for all you have done for this generation,” as one person tweeted. Another called on Jobs to make an “iHeaven to connect us with God.” Jobs was just 21 when he founded Appple Computer in 1976 with his 26-year-old friend Steve Wozniak in his family garage. From such humble beginnings the company, with its ubiquitous trademark of an apple with a bite taken out of it, grew to eventually become one of the world’s most valuable firms. In July, Apple’s second quarter profit hit $7.31 billion on revenue of $28.57 billion.