A life in pictures of Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO.

1. Steve JobsiCEO www.mrmcgowan.blogspot.com

2. Steve Jobs was born in 1955 in San Francisco but was put up for adoption. He was raised by Paul & Clara Jobs. He has been lauded as a true entrepreneur, one who has had as much of an impact as Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. Steve Jobs untimely passing comes at a time when Apple is the number one company in the world. It is perhaps fitting then that Steve Jobs has bowed out where he belongs: at the top.

3. 1st April 1976 – forms Apple with Steve Wozniak

4. 1976 – Apple I

5. 1984 - Macintosh

6. 1985 – leaves Apple

7. 1985 – forms NeXT

8. 1986buys Pixar from George Lucas

9. 1997 returns to Apple

10. 1999 coloured iMacs

11. 2001 iPod is launched

12. 2003 iTunes

13. 2007 iPhone

14. 2010 iPad

15. Apple – The Numbers iMac sales – 20,000,000 iPod sales – 297,000,000 iPhone sales – 340,000,000 iPad sales – 15,000,000 iTunes downloads – 6,000,000,000 Apple market value - $350,000,000,000