The World Pays Tribute to Apple's Visionary

Steve Jobs was a master visionary and a fearless innovator who will forever be mentioned in the same breath as Edison and Einstein, a man that will be remembered as the guy who "put a dent in the universe."

In August, Jobs stepped down as the CEO of Apple, Inc. due to health issues stemming from his long battle with pancreatic cancer. Yesterday, at age 56, Jobs died from those same complications.

For as powerful a man as Jobs was, worth an estimated $8.3 billion, he took the road less traveled on his way to the top of the digital world. A dropout of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Jobs developed a newfound sense of existentialism, taking any work he could get, finding food where he could, and sleeping on the floor of his friends' dorm rooms. 

In 1976, he linked up with his high school friend and eventual Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to put an initial investment down to begin Apple. 35 years later, and the company is now worth a reported $351 billion, the world's most valuable technology company.

As John D. Sutter of CNN reported, his "product announcements were treated like rock concerts" with the anticipation that led up to the release and the pandemonium that ensued. Jobs was a cultural icon and the tributes to his legacy following his death were spread far and wide across the forms of technology and social media his company helped to create.

World news outlet BBC News reported today that even President Barack Obama sent out in a tweet that "there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented."

Jobs' inventions not only transcended the world of technology but also "led a cultural transformation in the way music, movies, and mobile communications were expeirenced in the digital age." The world will forever remember Steve Jobs and will be forever grateful for how he took a humble idea and transformed technology for generations to come.

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