Thursday, December 22, 2011

Statue Honors iPhone iPad iConoclast Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs StatureSteve Jobs was loved and admired around the world. ?Jobs support of ArchiCAD software helped make it popular. He is honored by the company with statue, dedicated, today.

GRAPHISOFT, Graphisoft Park, and AIT-Budapest unveiled a statue of?Steve Jobs in Budapest's Graphisoft Park.?The 6'5" bronze Jobs is wearing jeans, running shoes/sneakers, turtleneck shirt and Jobs' signature eyeglasses. ?He is carrying an iPhone.

"Steve Jobs made technology available to the masses first over the desktop, then in our pockets," said Gabor Bojar, the founder of Graphisoft who called?Jobs the creator of technology with a human face.

"Apple's support included cash and computers at a time when GRAPHISOFT was a small company with limited resources, working within the economic and political confines of what was, at the time, communist Hungary," Gabor Bojar said.

They claim the ?statue is the first in the world honoring the late founder of Apple, who passed away on October 5. Made by Hungarian sculptor Erno Toth, the life-like bronze statue stands near the entrance of architectural software maker GRAPHISOFT's Budapest headquarters.

Steve Jobs came across the first version of GRAPHISOFT's ArchiCAD software at the 1984 CeBIT in Germany. His first impressions of the software led him to throw Apple's support behind the development and distribution of ArchiCAD.??Apple also introduced?GRAPHISOFT?to its worldwide distribution network, which remains a cornerstone of the business today.

Graphisoft Park is the first science/technology park in Budapest, established by GRAPHISOFT in 1997 when looking for new premises. The mission of the Park is to enable its tenants to attract the best talent with an inspiring calm and green environment, located directly on the banks of the Danube River.

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