Johannesburg, 07 Oct 2011
The SA Communications Forum (SACF) has expressed sorrow over the death of Apple founder and chairman Steve Jobs.
Jobs died on Wednesday, in Palo Alto, after a long battle with cancer.
“Steve Jobs was a visionary who transformed our industry on a global scale. He demonstrated with his life the extraordinary impact that one person can have on the world. He brought craftsmanship and mastery into engineering new products that profoundly changed the way people engage and interact with each other in business, families, and communities and across continents,” says the SACF.
It also highlights the impact he has had on the ICT business landscape. “What a legendary man, who began as ordinary as the rest of us. He has truly left a legacy,” says SACF executive director Loren Braithwaite Kabosha.
With his passion for minimalist design and marketing genius, Jobs changed the course of personal computing during two stints at Apple, and then brought a revolution to the mobile market, said Reuters.
“Jobs reinvented the technology world several times, first with the Apple II, a beautiful personal computer in the 1970s; then in the 1980s with the Macintosh, driven by a mouse and presenting a clean screen that made computing inviting; the ubiquitous iPod debuted in 2001, the iPhone in 2007, and iPad in 2010, which, a year after it was introduced, outsold the Mac.”
Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple on 24 August, saying he could no longer fulfil the duties, and briefly served as chairman before his death.
Apple's stock dropped as much as 7% in after-hours trading when Jobs' resignation as CEO was announced.
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