< person > Stephen P. Jobs (born 24 February 1955). The co-founder and ex-president of Apple Computer , leader of the team that produced the Macintosh .
In 1979, when he was president of Apple, Steven Jobs saw a demonstration of Smalltalk at Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Center . He and other Apple employees were "very impressed with the unique and revolutionary user-friendly design".
The first Macintosh was released in January 1984. Jobs described it as insanely great .
Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985 and founded Next, Inc. . In December 1996 he was re-employed by Apple when they bought NeXT.
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