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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was a true visionary and will be remembered for the way he inspired a generation, Australian experts told Xinhua on Thursday, adding that he had made the world a more interesting and user friendly place.

Former Apple employee and Apple fans have placed flowers and photograph outside Sydney's Apple store to mourn the loss of the company's co-founder, who has died after a seven-year battle with pancreatic cancer at age 56.

I.T. specialist at Faculty of Science, University of Sydney, Trixie Barretto, thanked Jobs for creating so many amazing tools that have positively shaped the way he work, live and create.

"Steve Jobs wanted to change the world and he did. He was a true visionary and will be remembered for the way he inspired a generation," he told Xinhua in an email note on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Web Developer at University of Sydney, Jayne Ion, said Jobs is more than a visionary, as he is also an organ donor activist, CEO of the Decade (Fortune Magazine, 2007), user based design guru, philanthropist, tech oracle, and has achieved a Twitter Fail Whale message as the Twitterati made for the digital airwaves to mourn his passing.

"I believe the world is a more interesting and user friendly place for having had it's time with Steve Jobs, albeit too brief," he said.

Jobs' attitude to life has also been praised by Associate Head of the School of Information Technologies at University of Sydney, Masahiro Takatsuka.

While Jobs is known for his multitudinous product and business innovations, Takatsuka said Jobs also took a major role in establishing measures of delight, happiness, gratification and fun as indicators of successful Information Technologies.

"This philosophy allowed him to forge the way for his company to produce IT devices and methods which enable people to not only achieve better work performances, but also to enrich and enjoy our lives," he said.

Earlier on Thursday morning, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard praised Jobs as an incredible global innovator, and "a man who changed our world".

Jobs (1955-2011) recently stepped down as chief executive of Apple, which he co-founded in a garage when he was 21. A statement on Apple's website said the company has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.