The Death of steve jobs

The history of the iPhone line of phones began with Steve Jobs' direction that Apple Inc. engineers investigate touch-screens. At the time he had been considering having Apple work on tablet PCs, which later came to fruition with the iPad. Many have noted the device's similarities to Apple's previous touch-screen portable device, the Newton MessagePad. Like the Newton, the iPhone is nearly all screen. Its form factor is credited to Apple's head of design, Jonathan Ive. He died on 

Jobs holding a white iPhone 4 at Worldwide Developers Conference 2010
Born	Steven Paul Jobs February 24, 1955 San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died	October 5, 2011 (aged 56) Palo Alto, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Respiratory arrest/pancreatic cancer
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Reed College (one semester)
Occupation	Co-founder, Chairman and CEO, Apple Inc., CEO, Pixar,
Years active	1974–2011
Net worth	$7.0 billion (September 2011)
Board member of	The Walt Disney Company, Apple Inc.
Religion	Buddhism[6]
Spouse	Laurene Powell (1991–2011, his death)
Children	4
Relatives	Mona Simpson (sister)
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