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My Take
I think the most underrated thing about Steve Jobs is that he was, at heart, an editor. Anyone can add features; he removed them until what remained felt inevitable, and the Apple II, the iMac, and the iPod each redefined a category by subtraction. He was famously difficult, and I do not romanticize that, but his insistence that technology should answer to design and human feeling rather than the other way around changed how I judge every product I touch. The Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded more than a decade after his death only confirmed what the devices had already proved: his taste outlived him.
Overview
Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Steve Jobs
- Name (Japanese)
- スティーブ・ジョブズ
- Reading
- すてぃーぶ・じょぶず
- Born
- February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Goat
- Origin
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- entrepreneur / inventor / designer / computer scientist / executive producer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Homestead High School
- University
- Reed College
Awards & achievements
- 1985 National Medal of Technology and Innovation
- 2012 Grammy Trustees Award
- 2007 California Hall of Fame
- 2012 National Inventors Hall of Fame
- 2013 Disney Legends
- 2010 Financial Times Person of the Year
- 2022 Presidential Medal of Freedom
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Apple II | — | |
| Notable work | Apple Lisa | — | |
| Notable work | NeXT Computer | — | |
| Notable work | iMac | — | |
| Notable work | iPod | — |
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.