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Apple was that steve jobs actually managed much of what was in apple. he was hands-on. he was a micromanager. he made sure everything was perfect personally. you extract somebody like that from a company, that company is forever changed. it really is like ripping the heart out of a person. and cook was hired to do the things that steve jobs didnt want to do. so instead of being like steve jobs, he was actually pretty much his polar opposite. so the fact that he stepped into steves shoes, that sh...

Product line. and that little studio -- >> to infinity and beyond. >> reporter: -- pixars 12 films have an average gross of nearly $600 million each. thats the best record in hollywood history. jobs sold pixar to disney for $7.4 billion. so how did it all happen? the main catalyst for jobs renaissance had to be itunes. ♪ hello, hello >> reporter: apple launched it as mac-only software in january 2001. when jobs unveiled the ipod music player later that year, it seamlessly connected with itunes...

Apple was the physical extension of steve jobs soul. you cant have one effectively without the other. he touched every part of that company. i think one of the advantages of apple was that steve jobs actually managed much of what was in apple. he was hands-on. he was a micromanager. he made sure everything was perfect personally. you extract somebody like that from a company, that company is forever changed. it really is like ripping the heart out of a person. and cook was hired to do the things...

One really good idea and then couldnt reproduce. and, you know, steve jobs went off, learned a bunch of stuff, started other businesses, gave us pixar, by the way and then came back and restarted, really restarted apple in the late 90s. as almost a different man. because his vision, his laserlike focus, allowed him to create a run of products that weve never seen before. weve never seen anything quite like it. a decade of iconic products that people simply have to have. there are a lot of other ...

Incorporated these products into share their life. we feel like we know steve jobs. in some ways its a passing that would rival that of an elected public figure in our country. >> janet, we now have a statement from steve jobs family that im going to read. the statement says, steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family. in his public life steve was known as a visionary. in his private life he cherished his family. were thankful to the many people who shared their wishes and prayers duri...

Least today, you touch steve jobs. that is unique. you just dont have that with any other products. >> rob, the flag is now flying at half-mast outside of the headquarters at apple. a loss like no other company has suffered in recent memory that were seeing today. youve study his life. he packed as much life as you possibly could into 56 years. how did his illness change him? >> well, to some extent it humanized him. you certainly saw him waste away. have to wrap his mind around the fact he was ...

Steve jobs, more than any other figure, shaped our digital era on his own terms and created hundreds of billions of dollars of value along the way. his story has an unlikely beginning. steven paul jobs was born in san francisco in 1955. given up by his birth parents, he was adopted by a family in the heart of silicon valley. he dropped out of college to pursue his ideas and teamed up with a friend to build a new kind of computer, one anybody could use. the company they founded was the first to m...

Everything you have been talking about. the iphone, the ipod. the mac. the apps. and so all of this, the creative genius of steve jobs, theres a powerful sense of just sadness here. even though that many people felt like this was coming. apple has been very quick to respond. go to apple.com and there is simply a picture of steve jobs in black and white with the dates of his birth and death. and apple within the last few minutes has issued a statement just expressing their sadness and what he has...

Steve jobs and wasniak came and made these products unusually acceptable to individuals in ways wed never seen before. it was a quantum leap in the way the products developed but now have proliferated. you look at the people who have come after apple, whether with android phones, smart phones, whatever you want to call them or other types of tablet devices. theyve truly broken ground. as early as five or six years ago, people werent really contemplating. he was continuously more than a step ahea...

Acceptable to individuals in ways wed never seen before. it was a quantum leap in the way the products developed but now have proliferated. you look at the people who have come after apple, whether with android phones, smart phones, whatever you want to call them or other types of tablet devices. theyve truly broken ground. as early as five or six years ago, people werent really contemplating. he was continuously more than a step ahead of everybody else in his competitors. it was interesting he ...