RIP, Steve

Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies

By Brandon Griggs, CNN

updated 11:12 PM EST, Wed October 5, 2011

Apple's passionate pitchman

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Jobs had battled cancer for years
• Jobs founded Apple when he was 21
• He developed the concept of the personal computer and mouse
• He oversaw the launch of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad

(CNN) -- Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world's leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday. He was 56.
The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of the personal computer and of navigating them by clicking onscreen images with a mouse. In more recent years, he introduced the iPod portable music player, the iPhone and the iPad tablet -- all of which changed how we consume content in the digital age.
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His friends and Apple fans on Wednesday night mourned the passing of a tech titan.
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A true American success story.