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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 wasn't even close to when it was initially formed. i think levels that nobody believed it could actually reach. the -- he was a truly amazing person. >> rob, please ...

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, if you will, because he came out of that world of software. whereas what steve jobs did from the be...

Use them infinitely. there wasn't an advanced macintosh for smarter people or techier people. >> that's 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 didn't have to be a fancy person with a computer engineering degree in a suit to operate a highly powerful computer with incredible ca...

Founded, its software brought the luster back to apple's product line. and that little studio -- >> to infinity and beyond. >> reporter: -- pixar's 12 films have an average gross of nearly $600 million each. that's 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 and kicked off apple's strategy of marr...

We have more on this breaking news story. the life of steve jobs. here's 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, there's more. >> today apple is going to reinvent the phone. >> reporter: and people did wait. in long lines for the first iphones in 2007. then three years later, they lined up for the ipad. changing the way people c...