The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

Forbes estimated his net wealth at $8. Jobs apparently did not receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy. Steve Jobs was the marketing person.

Through Apple he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields transforming "one industry after another from computers and smartphones to music and movies. He has been referred to as "legendary" a "futurist" or simply "visionary" and has been described as the "Father of the Digital Revolution" a "master of innovation" and a "design perfectionist". He served as CEO and majority shareholder until Disney's purchase of Pixar in 2006.