Still, he insisted on showing up in person rather than participating via conference call. Jobs also said he looked forward to contributing to Apple in a new role: chairman of the board. Aside from reduced hours to fit around his health needs, that aspect of Jobs role would not change with the shift from CEO to chairman. In , after a sales slump, and Jobs' clashes with management, he was ousted.
He went on to turn Pixar into one of the world's most famous animation studios. He returned to Apple in and what followed was the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, redefining not only computing but telecoms and the music industry.
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Reuse this content. Under Jobs, Apple delivered innovations from the first widely used mouse-driven user interface to the pocketable iPod media player, which created the digital-music revolution. It delivered the first popular tablet computer, the iPad , prompting a wholesale reinvention of the media business in the process.
As chief executive officer of Pixar Studios , Jobs became the tech-savvy equivalent of Walt Disney, fine-tuning the art of computer-generated storytelling beginning with Toy Story.
Today, Apple continues to expand its reign in the mobile wireless industry with its phenomenally successful iPhone. Cook first took over earlier this year when Jobs went on medical leave for the third time in seven years.
Together they ushered in the Apple II, which went on sale in It was the first "practical" personal computer, eventually dominating the education market in particular. It became an albatross around Apple's neck, and after an earnings miss, Sculley was shown the door.
Sculley was replaced by long-time Apple employee Michael Spindler. Spindler only lasted about three years; Apple's board ousted him, too, after acquisition talks by IBM, Philips, and Sun Microsystems all fell through.
Spindler was replaced by Gil Amelio in The move would bring Jobs back to Apple to give the company a much-needed shot in the arm. It would also turn out to be Amelio's undoing. In June of , an anonymous party sold 1. The move caused Apple shares to dip to a year low. Not long after, Jobs confessed that it was he who had sold all that Apple stock.
It's generally understood that Jobs' move made Apple's board far more receptive to the idea of firing Amelio. Ultimately, Amelio resigned from Apple. By that August, Jobs had already started to shake things up. In , Apple introduced the iMac, its smash-hit all-in-one computer, reinforcing the company's turnaround.
In , Apple officially dropped the "interim" from Steve Jobs' title. He was now officially the full-fledged CEO.
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