Steve Jobs and Apple – the highlights, in pictures

Circa 1976: Steve Jobs, right, and Steve Wozniak with their original kit-form computer, the Apple I Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters

16 or 17 April 1977: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, co-founders of Apple Computer Inc, at the first West Coast Computer Faire, where the Apple II computer made its debut in Brooks Hall, San Francisco, California Photograph: Tom Munnecke/Getty

24 April 1984: Steve Jobs, chairman of Apple Computers, John Sculley, president and CEO, and Steve Wozniak, co-founder, unveil the new Apple IIc computer in San Francisco Photograph: Sal Veder/AP

16 January 1984: Jobs with former Pepsi chief John Sculley, who became head of Apple and eventually ousted Jobs from the company after a bitter power struggle Photograph: Marilyn K Yee/Getty

1984: Jobs with his rival Bill Gates (right), co-founder of Microsoft, during an interview in New York Photograph: Andy Freeberg/Getty

1984: Steve Jobs in a bow tie as he unveiled the Apple Macintosh to the world Photograph: Cindy Charles/Getty

1984: Steve Jobs with the Macintosh 128k, the original Macintosh computer from Apple Photograph: Bernard Gotfryd/Getty

30 March 1989: Steve Jobs as chairman of NeXT Computer, which he founded after Apple kicked him out. Apple eventually bought the company and its technology when Jobs returned, and the current Mac OS X operating system is partly based on it Photograph: Paul Sakuma/AP

18 May 1998: Jobs, by now reinstated at Apple, holds an iMac at the all-in-one computer's launch in California that helped to revive the company's fortunes Photograph: Moshe Brakha/Getty

7 September 2005: Jobs introduces the iPod nano, launched along with the fifth generation iPod that was the first to display video Photograph: Lou Dematteis/Reuters

30 July 2006: Jobs with Tony Blair, the then UK prime minister (right), at a meeting of Silicon Valley executives in San Jose, California Photograph: Reuters

9 September 2008: Jobs makes light of his ill health at an Apple event in San Francisco Photograph: Robert Galbraith/Reuters

27 January 2010: Jobs holds the Apple iPad at its San Francisco launch Photograph: Kimberly White/Reuters

7 June 2010: Jobs shows off the iPhone 4 in San Francisco Photograph: Robert Galbraith/Reuters

6 October 2011: Flowers, candles and an iPhone form an impromptu tribute in front of the upper west side Apple Store in New York as news spreads that Steve Jobs has died from pancreatic cancer Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters

October 5 2011: An iPad 2 showing Apple's homepage tribute to Steve Jobs Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP