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Analyst. rob, i dont think there is a company out there that produces a product where the consumer feels a more direct connection to the founder of the company, to the guiding creative genius of all the products that apple has released. that experience of opening apple packaging, whether it be for the ipod, whether it be for a mac, the phone, it feels as if steve jobs has designed every moment of that. every moment of the unpacking before you even turn on the machine. >> well, he did. i mean, at...

Incorporated these products into share litheir 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 du...

Tim cook is a very different kind of leader, and thats fine. you know, when i think about steve jobs, i dont just think about a ceo. i think about a visionary. i think about somebody who knew how to package products, deliver them and then tell the tale of them on stage in a way that, you know, people try and do and they just fail. >> weve been watching video of him on stage and he was something of an entertainer. probably the best in that industry when it came to introducing products and that so...

And that kind of ability to see things differently like in that great 1997 apple ad campaign. that the idea of seeing the world differently and creating technology that matches that rebellious vision, that is how he will be remembered. and his life changed our lives. his work, his design, his vision of technology really did change the world. i will forever be grateful for that. >> xeni, when we talk -- the kinds of traits you were talking about make sense to me in terms of how you end up with an...

Milton hershey. companies where the individuals legacy lived on through the business entity they created. and also changed culturculture, processes as mr. jobs did while he was at apple, when he was gone and more importantly when he came back. he has done so many ground breaking things. dont forget, he also started pixar, the animation company thats now owned by walt disney. hes been on the forefront of technological changes. interestingly enough, lawrence, when he came back to apple, the compan...

Story. he was an orphan and adopted as a child. he explored what many of us explored as we were growing up including traveling india by barefoot which almost killed him. the -- he came to be a power and an icon both by virtue of his unique vision and kind of his unique charisma. he was able to retransform himself after being fired from apple and come back and actually save the company he helped create. raising it to levels that it wasnt even close to when it was initially formed. i think levels ...

Revolution to be done a different way as we saw this year in tahrir square and in egypt. that this was a revolution enabled by the technology that some of these people, like bill gates and definitely steve jobs, thought up in their garages a generation ago. >> well, the difference between gates and -- bill gates and steve jobs, in my estimation, having kind of lived through the development of all these products, is that bill gates was for people who wanted to lift up the hood, for the gearheads,...

Use them infinitely. there wasnt an advanced macintosh for smarter people or techier people. >> thats right. >> the ground level was accessible to everybody and the furthest you could go was the furthest anybody could go. i feel like that was different about apple and jobs than anybody else. do you feel that way? >> it certainly was a radical idea at the time that apple formed, at the time that this part of the computer revolution took form. the idea that you didnt have to be a fancy person with...

Founded, its software brought the luster back to apples 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 pla...

We have more on this breaking news story. the life of steve jobs. heres nbc news george lewis. >> reporter: he was the father of the iphone, the ipod and the apple mac computer. turning electronic gadgets into objects of desire. >> i think if you do something and it turns out pretty good then you should go do something else wonderful. >> reporter: as he was fond of saying, wait, theres more. >> today apple is going to reinvent the phone. >> reporter: and people did wait. in long lines for the fi...