It was exactly one year ago the world lost a man considered one of the greatest business and marketing geniuses ever.

Steve Jobs passed away after a long fight with cancer on Oct. 5, 2011.

Apple is now the world’s most valuable company with a market capitalization of $629-billion.

This year has seen the new release of the iPhone 4S, the iPhone 5 and the new iPad, with more products reportedly on the way before Christmas.

It’s widely thought that Jobs left two to three years of gadgets bearing his influence, so it may likely be a couple more years before the market can measure the effect of Apple without Steve Jobs.

There are those that claim he would never have let the iPhone 5 be shipped a few weeks ago; many users reported major problems with the maps app.

“One of the things I’ve always found is,” Jobs said in 1997, “you’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology.”