Steve Jobs: Most Influential Person Of The 20th Century

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Many influential people over the world created diverse and significant impacts throughout everyday life. Whether those impacts are big or small, those people have the chance to be recognized or nominated for the most influential person of the 20th century. However, out of all those intellectual people, Steve Jobs is the most prominent nominee for the 20th century. Steve Jobs was the co-founder of Apple Computers along with his high school friend, Steve Wozniak. By investing in Pixar, creating the successful iPhone, and being able to contribute to the development of modern/future technology, Steve Jobs is without a doubt the best nominee. As Steve Jobs worked for Apple, there came a time where he was blamed for Apple’s downfall of marketing.

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