A LOOK BACK AT THE LIFE OF STEVE JOBS

Apple Inc. announced tonight that company co-founder and former Chief Executive Steve Jobs has died at the age of 56. Here is a look back at his career. He was the father of the iPhone, the iPod and the Apple Mac computers turning ____________________ gadgets into objects of desire. “I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful.” As he was fond of saying, “Wait, there’s more!” “Today Apple is going to ____________________ the phone.” And people did wait in long lines for the first iPhones in 2007. Then three years later they lined up for the iPad changing the way people consume media. “Design plus function ____________________ the right life style and that’s what he felt.” In 1976 Jobs co-founded Apple Computer and within a few years was worth one hundred million dollars. In 1984 he was showing off his new ____________________ and joy, the Macintosh. “And this has turned out insanely great.” As critics hailed the Mac, Jobs was on the losing end of a ____________________ struggle at his company and left Apple a year later. He went into computer animation acquiring Pixar Studios and striking failure with a ____________________ of hit movies starting with Toy Story “To infinity and beyond!” Jobs came back to Apple in 1996 and began reinventing the Mac dressing it up in a variety of colours. “They look so good you kinda wanna lick them.” Concerns about the health of Steve Jobs began in 2004 when he underwent ____________________ for pancreatic cancer. A year later he spoke about that during a seminar at Stanford University.

George Lewis, NBC News, Los Angeles