Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, dies

Died this Wednesday (5) at the age of 56 the businessman Steven Paul Jobs, creator of Apple , from the animation studio Pixar and father of products such as Macintosh, iPad, iPhone and iPad.

Idolized by the consumers of his products and by a good part of the employees of the company that he founded in a garage in Silicon Valley, California, and helped transform into the largest publicly traded company in the world by market value, Jobs He was one of the biggest advocates of the popularization of technology. He believed that computers and gadgets should be easy enough to operate by anyone, as he liked to repeat in one of his favorite catchphrases was "it just works" (in English, "it just works“), impact that went beyond his company and helped drive the evolution of products such as Windows, ecosystem.

A Jobs' fight against cancer since 2004 left him physically weakened in the most commercially successful years of Apple , which escaped bankruptcy in the late 90s to become the biggest tech company on the planet. He has since had a liver transplant and has seen his obituary accidentally published in major outlets such as Bloomberg.

The news is already printed on the Apple website:

The world today loses a great revolutionary. Whatever your “team”, any great fan of creations and technological innovations will miss you.

Goodbye, Jobs.