To him, all those events were just inflection points on his way to changing computing, music, telecommunications and publishing.
By any measure, Jobs has been proven extraordinary, both in his hard-charging personality and his impact on personal computing, music and retail.
And under Mr. Jobs, the company invented and transformed the computing, music, phone, tablet, retail and publishing industries and made entire industries realize the importance of simplicity and design.
When one computes music teachers' salaries, the salary of a director of music (a position not financed in many districts), and the cost of field trips to appropriate festivals, it could total several hundred thousands of dollars per year.
In the process he triggered upheavals in computing, music, telecoms and the news business that were painful for incumbent firms but welcomed by millions of consumers.Within the wider business world, a man who liked to see himself as a hippy, permanently in revolt against big companies, ended up being hailed by many of those corporate giants as one of the greatest chief executives of his time.
Steve Jobs His gadgets transformed computing, music and mobile.
bRWC (Real World Computing) Music Database is a copyright-cleared music database that is available to researchers as a common foundation for research (http://staff.aist.go.jp/m.goto/RWC-MDB/).
Apple, the world's largest public company, makes iPhones, iPads, Mac computers and has interests in software development, cloud computing and music streaming.
MusicBrainz does this by computing a music file's digital fingerprint, based on its length and acoustic properties, then seeing if it can find a match in a growing online database of songs.
The big question: will Apple be able to reinvent the wristwatch industry in the way it has redefined others like computing and music?
