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Gaming Industry Expresses Gratitude to Steve Jobs

October 7, 2011


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After a highly publicized and long battle with pancreatic cancer, Apple’s ex-CEO, Steve Jobs, passed away on Wednesday, October 5, 2011, at the age of 56. Known to the world as the great mind behind innovations such as the iPod, iPhone and iPad, Jobs died peacefully surrounded by his family according to a family statement.

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For game developer companies like FunGuy Studio, Jobs paved the way for great innovations in the gaming industry. He revolutionized the gaming world by creating a huge market for mobile gaming. He changed the way people live by making the personal computer and putting the fun in functional smartphones. Instead of seeing the demand for mobile, tablet and flash-based games as a threat to the online gaming industry, FunGuy Studio along with other companies, regarded it as an opportunity for platform migration.
Jobs was focused on creating simple and easy-to-use machines and software that helped make gaming fully accessible for everyone. Apple’s App Store changed the game industry forever with its vast selection of game titles that can be easily downloaded with just a few taps of one’s finger.

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Jobs has a life story worth retelling. He was given up for adoption as an infant and raised by his adoptive parents. He was a prodigy who dropped out in college and built the first truly personal computer called Apple with his childhood friend, Steve Wozniak, in the late 1970s in his parent’s garage. By 25, he was a multi-millionaire and was the cover of Time magazine at 26. He was fired from Apple in 1984 but was brought back in in 1996 when Apple purchased NeXT, computer platform development company he founded. He became CEO of Apple in 1997 and the rest was history.

The Silicon Valley icon stepped down as the chief executive of Apple on August 24, 2011 but remained as a chairman of the multi-billion dollar company. He was succeeded by Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook.