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Jobs leaves behind a wife and four children. george lewis, nbc news, los angeles. >> im rejned now by rob enderle, a technology industry 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 ste...

>> oh, absolutely. i think youre right to identify edison as one and henry ford being another. as was just said, walt disney. milton hershey. companies where the individuals legacy lived on through the business entity they created. and also changed culture, 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. he...

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 done for the world saying he has made it an immeasurably bett...

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...

Jobs kept reporters at bay saying his health was nobodys business. >> guys -- >> reporter: but jobs was losing weight. something revealed in these photos taken in 2007 and 2008. in april 2009, he underwent a liver transplant. five months later, back at the job at apple, he expressed his gratitude. >> i now have a liver of a mid 20s person who died in a car crash and was generous enough to donate their organs. and i wouldnt be here without such generosity. >> reporter: on august 24th of this year...

>> millions of people are going to buy this to listen to their music. >> reporter: on the strength of itunes, jobs remade apple as a mobile powerhouse and never looked back. >> today apple is going to reinvent the phone. >> reporter: in 2007, he launched the iphone. three years later, he announced apples first $20 billion quarter. but jobs changing physical appearance as he announced one triumph after another was a signpost to his health problems. as itunes took off, he announced he had surgery ...

To disney. as tightly as any executive ive ever seen. they were two halves of a whole and when he left, clearly apple was left substantially reduced. and i think to a large extent, when he left, he was substantially reduced. both the company and steve jobs needed each other desperately and its doubtful any one of them could survive the others. i think it was one of the reasons he was tied so tightly to the job. he was convinced he couldnt survive without being a major part of apple. so its -- hi...

Apples products to do their jobs more efficiently and intuitively. tonight our city, a city that has always had such respect and admiration for creative genius, joins with people around the planet in remembering a great man and keeping laurene and the rest of the jobs family in our thoughts and prayers." joining me now is janet shamlian who is live just outside of apple headquarters in cupertino, california. janet, what is the scene there? >> reporter: well, you know, this is the home, the campu...

Ipad 2 and its icloud initiative, but then jobs announced his resignation saying he could no longer perform his duties as apple ceo. a creative titan of american business. hes survived by his wife, laurene, and four children. were americas natural gas and heres what we did today: supported nearly 3 million steady jobs across our country... ... scientists, technicians, engineers, machinists... ... adding nearly 400 billion dollars to our economy... were at work providing power to almost a quarter...

His personal approval. unlike no other ceo in the technology segment or most other segments, he took a personal interest in the products and to a large extent thats why apple didnt have too many of them. it actually had a very small number of products because each one had to be blessed by its ceo. even the image that apple portrayed to the world was largely crafted by steve jobs, personally, as was most of the relationships that resided around him. he was unique in the segment. >> rob, tim cook,...