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Steve Jobs's Accomplishments In His Final Years

First Posted: 10/06/11 05:16 AM ET   Updated: 12/05/11 05:12 AM ET

Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and former CEO, has died at the age of 56.

We don't think of Jobs as a baby boomer icon so much as the granddaddy of the Millennials, but the late visionary had some amazing achievements in his final years.

Let's take a look at what Jobs accomplished "post-50," according to MercuryNews.com.

Read more about his legacy on The Huffington Post.

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Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and former CEO, has died at the age of 56. We don't think of Jobs as a baby boomer icon so much as the granddaddy of the Millennials, but the late visionary had some am...
Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and former CEO, has died at the age of 56. We don't think of Jobs as a baby boomer icon so much as the granddaddy of the Millennials, but the late visionary had some am...
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13champlain
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03:20 PM on 10/06/2011
The media creation of labeling groups is played out. He is his own man....the implication is...Boomers are achievers, look at Steve Jobs. Every person has their own path. Labeling people in this way is a very liberal thing to do...everyone is a demographic rather than an individual. If the intention is to praise boomers for Apple, then they need to take the blame for the Nations debt crisis, and all the other things saddling people today.
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nostrodamusc
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03:02 PM on 10/06/2011
There are people who leave this world be off then it would have been otherwise, like Steve Jobs, thank God and we celebrate his life, short as it was, like other giants before him, he will be remembered and appreciated by furture generations.
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nostrodamusc
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03:17 PM on 10/06/2011
I meant " leave this world better off "
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novatom
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02:55 PM on 10/06/2011
I'd venture to say that his one BIGGEST mistake over the past 10 years was giving iPhone exclusivity to AT&T for the past 4 years. Major FAIL.

Other than that, well done, Steve.
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MichaelAKD
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02:43 PM on 10/06/2011
not a mention of jobs role in putting GUI out there for the masses so you did not have to know basic, fortran et al to us a computer. his role with getting gui out so the masses could use a pc, in historical context more important than when man first stepped onto the moon. bill gates was smart and after seeing job's lisa microsoft decided the direction jobs was headed in was the direction all tech needed to go, that is if it were to be accessed by the masses and not just tech geeks such as myself. something so small, so common it goes without notice yet without it the world would grind to a halt. jobs had a vision and that vision via gui and all that would follow literally has touched every life on this planet in one way or another.
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Rizz
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02:02 PM on 10/06/2011
Jobs didn't introduce "cloud computing", he simply capitalized on it.
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