Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was a human entrepreneur who created the iPad. According to Seb, Jobs' consciousness was uploaded to the Nethersphere after his death. (TV: Dark Water)

When Helen Sinclair insisted that it was impossible to record sound onto a (stone) tablet, the Eighth Doctor jokingly said "tell that to Steve Jobs". (AUDIO: The Red Lady)

Graham O'Brien identified himself under the false name of Steve Jobs to a police officer in Alabama in 1955. (TV: Rosa)

Behind the scenes

In the 2020 TV story "Spyfall", the Thirteenth Doctor accesses the Spy Master's temporal map showing every significant person in the development of computers through history. She notes that the Kasaavin placed agents on all of them. Among the people pictured on the map is Steve Jobs. However, none of them is identified in the episode.

In the real world, Jobs' company, Apple Inc., also created the iPod, iPhone and Macintosh computers. This connection has not been directly made in-universe yet. However, his creation of the iPhone is indirectly acknowledged in Rosa in which Graham, taking on the false identity of Steve Jobs, announces that he is developing a telephone capable of playing music, taking photographs, sending letters, and serving as a calendar. This description refers to the iPhone's various functions.