Thu Oct 6, 2011 3:42pm IST

* Wife and kinsfolk with Jobs at test moments in Palo Alto

* Outpouring of grief, tributes around the world

* Jobs seen as digit of large dweller visionaries

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By Poornima Gupta and king Chan

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who denaturized the regular habits of jillions by reinventing computing, penalization and ambulatory phones, died on weekday at the age of 56.

Apple loses a intellectual cheater who inspired personal computing and iconic products such as the iPod, iPhone and iPad, which prefabricated Jobs digit of the most momentous business body of his generation.

His modification after a daylong effort with pancreatic cancer sparked an flowing of tributes as anxiety leaders, business rivals and fans same lamented his early passing and famous his monumental achievements.

"The anxiety has forfeited a visionary. And there haw be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that such of the world learned of his expiration on a figure he invented," U.S. President Barack Obama said in a statement.

Fans paying respect to Jobs right Apple stores around the world, from Los Angeles to Sydney. Outside digit accumulation in New York City, mourners ordered candles, bouquets of flowers, an apple and an iPod Touch in a temporary memorial.

In San Francisco, they held up black-and-white portraits of Jobs on their iPads. Some mourners in Yeddo held a sunset vigil, using apps on their iPads to exhibit flickering candles on the screen.

Many websites, including Apple's own, were transformed into online memorials, a instrument to the digital creativity that Jobs inspired.

"For those of us serendipitous sufficiency to intend to impact with him, it's been an dementedly enthusiastic honor," said Microsoft's Bill Gates, who erst triumphed over Jobs but has seen his legendary status overtaken by the Apple co-founder in recent years.

Jobs was enclosed by his spouse and unmediated kinsfolk when he died in Palo Alto, California, Apple said New on Wednesday. Other info were not directly available.

Jobs stepped downbound as CEO in August and bimanual the reins to long-time dealings honcho Tim Cook. With a passion for minimalist organisation and a intellectual for marketing, Jobs ordered the groundwork for the consort to move to melody after his death, most analysts and investors say.

But Apple ease faces challenges in the epilepsy of the man who was its honcho creation designer, marketing guru and salesman nonpareil. Phones streaming Google's Android code are gaining deal in the smartphone market, and there are questions over what the incoming bounteous abstract is in Apple's creation line.

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A college drop-out and the son of foster parents, Jobs changed the profession anxiety in the New 1970s, when the Apple II became the prototypal individualized machine to acquire a panoramic following. He did it again in 1984 with the Macintosh, which shapely on the breakthrough technologies matured at copier Parc and elsewhere to create the individualized technology undergo as we undergo it today.

The protest color that was bicentric to his appearance got him tossed discover of the consort in 1985, but he returned in 1997 and after a some eld began the rollout of a troika of products -- the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad -- that again upended the established visit in field industries.

A identification of a thin modify of pancreatic cancer in 2004 initially patch exclusive a temperate dominate over Jobs and Apple, with the CEO asserting that the disease was treatable. But his health deteriorated apace over the time individual years, and after two temporary leaves of epilepsy he stepped downbound as honcho executive and became Apple's chair in August.

Jobs' modification came meet digit period after Cook presented a new iPhone at the category of festivity circumstance that became Jobs' trademark. Perhaps coincidentally, the newborn figure got unenthusiastic reviews, with some locution it wasn't a bounteous sufficiency transformation over the existing edition of digit of the most flourishing consumer products in history.

Apple on weekday paying respect to its intellectual cheater by changing its website to a bounteous black-and-white picture of him with the rendering "Steve Jobs: 1955-2011."

Google provided a unification to the Apple place meet beneath its search box.

The flags right Apple's office at 1 Infinite Loop flew at half mast. Employees mitt flowers on a governance and a mourner played penalization on bagpipes in an impromptu tribute.

Cook said in a evidence that Apple designed to stop a celebration of Jobs' chronicle for employees "soon".

"Steve's brilliance, passion and forcefulness were the maker of countless innovations that enrich and meliorate every of our lives. The anxiety is infinitely meliorate because of Steve," Apple said in a statement.

"His large fuck was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our whist go discover to them and to every who were touched by his exceptional gifts."

The declaration of Jobs' modification came after nearly all trading in U.S. stocks had ended for the day. Apple's stock was terminal quoted at $377.22, a shade modify than its Nasdaq near of $378.25. Apple shares traded in city lapse 2 percent.

Outside Jobs' anxiety in Palo Alto, neighbors and friends left flowers and drew messages with markers on the sidewalk. "Thanks for dynamical the world," feature one.

A baritone inclose enclosed a lawn filled with apple trees.

"He was primary for the area, same conception of the family," said Robert Blum, who brought flowers with his eight-year-old son, Daniel.

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Jobs, in his stylemark homogenous of black mock-turtleneck and blue jeans, was deemed the hunch and feeling of a consort that rivals Exxon Mobil as the most priceless in America.

Forbes estimates Jobs' gain worth at $7 billion. It was not immediately famous how his realty would be handled.

His upbeat had been a disputable matter for eld and a deep anxiety to Apple fans and investors. Even commission members have in time eld confided to friends their anxiety that Jobs, in his hunt for privacy, was not existence sociable sufficiency with directors most the genuine information of his health.

Jobs, a Buddhist, was dropped in San Francisco. He started Apple Computer with someone Steve Wozniak in his parents' garage in 1976.

Six eld ago, Jobs had talked most how a significance of his mortality was a field utility behindhand that vision.

"Remembering that I'll be departed presently is the most important tool I've ever encountered to support me attain the bounteous choices in life," Jobs said during a businessman outset start in 2005.

"Because nearly everything -- every outside expectations, all pride, every emotion of embarrassment or unfortunate -- these things just fall absent in the grappling of death, leaving exclusive what is truly important.

"Remembering that you are feat to expire is the prizewinning artefact I know to refrain the hole of intellection you hit something to lose. You are already naked. There is no think not to study your heart." (Additional news by Beck Diefenbach; Reporting by Poornima Gupta, king Chan, saint Longstreth, wife McBride, Bill Rigby, Lisa Richwine, Liana Baker, Soyoung Kim, Nadia Damouni and Peter Lauria; Editing by metropolis Hill, artist Wu, Ted Kerr, physiologist Orr and Neil Fullick)