<P> After leaving Apple, Jobs took a few of its members with him to found NeXT, a computer platform development company that specialized in state - of - the - art computers for higher - education and business markets . In addition, Jobs helped to initiate the development of the visual effects industry when he funded the spinout of the computer graphics division of George Lucas's Lucasfilm in 1986 . The new company, Pixar, would eventually produce the first fully computer - animated film, Toy Story--an event made possible in part because of Jobs's financial support . </P> <P> In 1997, Apple merged with NeXT . Within a few months of the merger, Jobs became CEO of his former company; he revived Apple at the verge of bankruptcy . Beginning in 1997 with the "Think different" advertising campaign, Jobs worked closely with designer Jonathan Ive to develop a line of products that would have larger cultural ramifications: the iMac, iTunes and iTunes Store, Apple Store, iPod, iPhone, App Store, and the iPad . In 2001, the original Mac OS was replaced with a completely new Mac OS X, based on NeXT's NeXTSTEP platform, giving the OS a modern Unix - based foundation for the first time . </P> <P> Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003 and died on October 5, 2011, of respiratory arrest related to the pancreatic tumor . </P> <P> Steve Jobs's biological father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali (Arabic: عبد الفتاح الجندلي) (b . March 15, 1931), grew up in Homs, Syria and was born into an Arab Muslim household . Jandali is the son of a self - made millionaire who did not go to college and a mother who was a traditional housewife . While an undergraduate at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, he was a student activist and spent time in jail for his political activities . Although Jandali initially wanted to study law, he eventually decided to study economics and political science . He pursued a PhD in the latter subject at the University of Wisconsin, where he met Joanne Carole Schieble (b . August 1, 1932), a Catholic of Swiss and German descent, who grew up on a farm in Wisconsin . As a doctoral candidate, Jandali was a teaching assistant for a course Schieble was taking, although both were the same age . Jobs's full biological sister (Mona Simpson), notes that her maternal grandparents were not happy that their daughter was dating Jandali: "it wasn't that he was Middle - Eastern so much as that he was a Muslim . But there are a lot of Arabs in Michigan and Wisconsin . So it's not that unusual ." Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs's official biographer, additionally states that Schieble's father "threatened to cut Joanne off completely" if she continued the relationship . </P>

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