Early Life
Steve jobs was born in San Francisco, California in 1955.He was an adopted Child by a coupled named Paul and Clara jobs.Steve Jobs Biological parents was uneducated so they decided put Steve Jobs for adoption.She felt strong on give only to an well-educated family and found a lawyer and his wife.Paul(lawyer) and Clara wanted a baby girl so Biological mother in the waiting list.She got a boy and paul also accepted to adopt the baby boy.Later they moved to Mountain View, CA in 1961.While his father was into repairing cars, Steve loved working on electronics instead.
Education
Jobs attended Homestead High School and began his first year there along with Bill Fernandez.In the mid-1970s, Steve discovered Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, and the Classic literary stuff, which prompted him to take creative writing lessons.He was interested in Electronics, art and literature.In senior year he was best friends with Wozniak and his girlfriend Chrisann Brennan, who was an art major.After High School Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland Oregon in 1972.It was one of the Expensive College in Portland and his working class parents saving spent on his college tuition.After 6 months jobs didn’t see the value in it and don’t want to spend all of his parents money in it so he decided to drop out after only one semester itself.Then he didn’t have an drone room so he slept on floor in friends home and continued to attend an auditing class but he was not an official student.He interested to attend Caligraphy course and learned about sans and sans-serif typefaces.He returned an coke bottle for 5Cents for his food.
“If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.”
Windows just copies the mac its likely that no personel computer would have them.
Apple Foundation
Jobs and Steve Wozniak met in 1971, when a mutual friend introduced 21 year-old Wozniak to 16 year-old Jobs. In 1976, when Jobs was only twenty-one, they invented the first Apple computer and founded Apple computer in Job’s parents garage.By early 77 a prototype of Apple computer was ready and later that year Jobs and Wozniak introduced Apple II at West Coast computer faire. It was the first consumer product sold by Apple computers and one of the highly successful mass-produced microcomputer product. The primary designer was Steve Wozniak. As Jobs became more and more successful in Apple, his personal relationship grows more complex.In 1983, Jobs hired John Sculley from Pepsico to serve as Apple’s CEO.In 1984 jobs introduces macintosh.First year with sculley was gone well and later the visions of the future began to diverged and eventually they had an falling out.Board of directors of apple company sided with sculley idea and jobs was fired on 1985 at the age of 30.
Next and Pixar Company
After fired from apple he don’t know what to do for few months then he realised that still he loves what he doing.
The Heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a Beginner again,less sure about everything
Jobs founded NeXT Computer in 1985, with $7 million. In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm’s computer graphics division for the price of $10 million.Pixar is the successful animation company in the world.The first film produced by the partnership, Toy Story, with Jobs credited as executive producer.Apple Computer announced an intention to acquire NeXT on December 20, 1996.Apple paid $429 million in cash.Jobs returned to apple and in 2000 Jobs took the CEO position as a permanent assignment.
Fired from the apple was the best thing ever happened to me
Inventions
- Apple introduced the new iBook, May 1, 2001 in Cupertino, California.
- The iPod MP3 music player was unveiled Oct. 23, 2001, at an event in Cupertino, California. The device held up to 1,000 songs.
- The Macintosh iBook laptop computer was released in 2002.
- Apple launched the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, with songs for 99 cents. Apple CEO Steve Jobs described the store as a way for consumers to legally download music while protecting the rights of the artists and music companies. The store featured over 200,000 songs.
- The new Apple Computer iPod mini is displayed during the Macworld Expo trade show on January 6, 2004, in San Francisco, California. The half-inch-thick iPod mini, the size of a business card, has 4 gigabytes of storage.
- The iPod Nano on Oct. 20, 2005.
- A iMac with Intel Core Duo processor is seen on display at the 2006 Macworld on Jan. 10, 2006, in San Francisco, California.
- Steve Jobs holds up the first ever iPhone, which was introduced at Macworld on Jan. 9, 2007, in San Francisco, California. The iPhone combines what was described at the time as “a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls and an Internet communications device with the ability to use email, web browsing, maps and searching.”
- Apple TV is seen on display in an Apple store March 23, 2007, in New York City.
- Customers celebrate after buying the first generation iPad at the Apple shop on George Street on May 28, 2010, in Sydney, Australia. Apple’s new tablet media device went on sale in nine countries around the world in May 2010 following its launch in the United States in April earlier that year.
Health issues
In October 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with cancer.In mid-2004, he announced to his employees that he had a cancerous tumor in his Pancreas.The prognosis for pancreatic cancer is usually very poor.Jobs stated that he had a rare, much less aggressive type, known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor.The doctor told it was an rare case of cancer incurable and he should expect to live no longer than 3-6 months.Later he gone to biopsy and put a needle to get few cells from tumors.After seeing the tumors in microscope the doctor started crying and said it is curable with surgery.By the time he underwent the surgery that ok to remove his tumor successfully.
Death
In Jan 2011 Tim cook was made the permanent CEO of Apple company.Steve Jobs died at his home in Palo Alto California on the afternoon of October 5th, 2011.Steve Jobs died peacefully with his family surrounding him.
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