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10 Years Ago Today: Steve Jobs Returns To Apple
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2007-02-07 16:58:15
Steve Jobs made it clear in his Macworld Expo Keynote last month that 2007 is going to be quite a year for the iPod family, and Apple, Inc. in general. This makes it particularly noteworthy to look back and note that it was 10 years ago, today - February 7, 2007, that Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs returned to the company he founded as a result of Apple acquiring NeXT Computer, Inc., which Jobs also founded after leaving Apple in 1985. As Infinite Loop recounts:Before these last 10 years got rolling, the prolific co-founder of Apple Computer was forced out of the company by John Scully & Co. in 1985 due to disagreements about where to steer the company. Steve spent his time after his ousting trying to find himself, acquiring Pixar, and founding NeXT, which ultimately landed square in our laps as the base for the Mac OS X that we use today. Apple, on the other hand, went through a string of "interesting" ups and downs—some successful, some not so much. This included the introduction of the first PowerBook, System 7, a failed lawsuit against Microsoft for theft of intellectual property, the QuickTake camera, the ever-so-loved Newton PDA, the Quadra and Performa lines, the switch from 68k to PPC processors, the failed Copland project, and the brief break into gaming with the Apple Pippin, to name a few. Oh, and those crazy, crazy Mac clones. Then-spiraling Apple has come a long way since Jobs' first keynote back in 1997, delivered while Big Brother Gates kept larger-than-life vigil over the attendees from his vantage, projected above the keyote stage. The $150 million Microsoft injected into Apple in '97 certainly helped the company, but it is unarguably Steve Jobs' renowned vision that turned the company around and made it the icon that it is today, 90 million iPods later.Thanks, Steve. From all of us.
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