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(source: MacRumers)

Mac, Iphone, Ipad, Ipod. In 2012, USA today determined that more than 55 million Americans own an Apple product in their homes. Every year Apple releases a new version of the Iphone, every year is met with high demand to release a product up to the standards of it's 55 million consumers. But who exactly was the mastermind(s) behind this company? 40 years ago, Steve Jobs and two of his friends, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, collaborated to create Apple. Fast forward many products and years later, Steve Jobs, at the age of 56, passed away from pancreatic cancer, shocking the country. The company that has brought the world together through face-time had lost its' head leader.

(source: Business Insider)

Many people, who may or may not have known him very well, perceived Jobs as a technological genius. A highly intelligent man who single-handedly brought up Apple and created these ground-breaking devices all on his own. Yet upon his death, many of his co-workers, partners, and peers came forward to present the reality of Steve Jobs. One of the more famous peers who was seen as a more competitive type friend of Jobs was non other than the co-creator of Microsoft (created in 1975), Bill Gates. While many others came forward to say that Jobs only stole their ideas to remold them into his own invention, Jobs stated, "He shamelessly ripped off other peoples ideas." In Walter Issacson's biography of Steve Jobs. That he (Gates) had unashamedly stolen from Jobs to produce Windows, which had similarities to Jobs' Macintosh. The same outrage occurred after Google came out with the Android, for also having too many similarities to Jobs' Iphone device (New Yorker).

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Upon reading this article I too thought that this was an incredulous description of the beloved Steve Jobs. However notorious may be the man seemed to know what he was doing creating a massive empire like Apple. However, the many speed bumps in his way were regarding his not-so-lovable attitude towards others.