Life Story of Steve Jobs

 

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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Apple may announce iOS 7 on June 10 during WWDl

It has been almost one year since Apple officially announced ios6. The time seems right for a new major release to come, doesn’t it? Well, it looks like that’s what Apple has in tow for its 2013 worldwide developers conference which is set to kick off on June 10 with a preview of “new versions of iOS and OS X.

While there are many things we’d like to see introduce with ios 7, no one yet knows what the platform’s new version will bring. Even the rumor mill has been pretty silent on the matter, although that might change by the time the conference begins. The only few hints we currently have thrown on the table are the possible introduction of a  “killer ios app” for handling mobile payments and the launch of a new internet service of some kind. We’re also hearing rumors about an ios UI redesign being pushed john ive– visual interface tweaks to make the platform look flatter and simpler.

History of Apple

Apple was founded in the 1970’s by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak after they built their first computer, the Apple I. It started production in Steve Jobs’ dads’ Garage and from these humble beginnings it has eventually become a multibillion dollar company that has changed the world. Together with the Apple Store.

Apple’s success is nothing short of remarkable and through Steve jobs vision and Steve Wozniak’s engineering capabilities they became almost instant successes in the world of computers.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built their first computer, the Apple I in 1976. This computer was sold to a local computer shop called the byte shop and only 200 were made. The money made because of this paved the way for the Apple II. The Apple II was a much better machine than its predecessor because of this additional funding. Although a stark contrast to today’s Apple products and the Apple Store.

Apple as a company was officially formed on April 1, 1976 after receiving a 250,000 bank loan co-signed by Mr Markkula. It was named Apple because of its location in the phonebook compared to Atari giving it an advantage as it would be first alphabetically. Apple finally released the Apple II in 1979 which was a huge success in the market and has even been credited as creating the home computer market.

This high was not to last though as although Apple had some success with the Macintosh, this was the beginning of a slow decline until the mid-90’s

Macintosh was a success that Apple needed, after the failed attempts to crack the business market with the overpriced Lisa computer. Some of the Macintosh’s success is owed to its iconic 1984 ad which appeared in the Super bowl, directed by Ridley Scott and is now considered one of the greatest advertisements of all time. The Macintosh computers success although large was rejected by some key demographics as it was sometimes thought of as a ‘toy’ and not a serious computer.

In 1985 Steve Jobs, one of the founders of Apple was forced out and moved on to start other companies but his role in Apple was nowhere near over.

Although Apple had some successes between Steve Jobs’ dismissal and return, it also had quite a few failures. The Mac branch of the company continued with several new computers leading up to their attempt at a portable computer. The portable Macintosh was a failure but the PowerBook that followed became a huge success and set up the format for all future laptops.

During the 1990’s Apple and its competitors were outdone by IBM which became increasingly popular, this was due to several factors including the fact that Apple was possibly the worst managed business of that time. They ruined the simple nature Apple had worked so hard to create with long and pointless model names, too many variations on products and even just too many products been sold. Apple was losing business fast and after their buying out of NeXT technology this put Steve Jobs back in the scene allowing him to re-join the Apple team and after a boardroom decision take over as CEO. This was a huge change the way Apple worked and began the turning around of Apple to become the multibillion dollar company it is today.

This involved several steps and a bailout from Microsoft that allows Microsoft Office to be featured on the Mac and a $150 million investment. This was the start of Apples rise to dominance with new ideas like the iMac, iBook, and Power Mac G4 which allowed them to get back on top of the market.

In 2001 Apple released one of the most popular pieces of technology that has help make the business what is today. This is of course the iPod which sparked a huge change in the music industry. The iPod was a huge development and sparked the developing of things like iTunes, IOS and even the iPhone and iPad. The Apple Store began selling apps to cater for these new devices.

From 2001 onwards Apple began the ‘I’ era creating several products including the iPhone, iPad and iTunes which are all extremely popular now and have helped Apple reach its place at the top. The ‘I’era really transformed and shaped a new era in technology.

The iPhone was a revolution in the phone world as they added touchscreen capabilities to a great operating system. This was a huge seller and became an icon, to the extent that it outsells every other phone on the market by far. This success has made it control the phone market putting serious strain on android phones trying to compete. This success wasn’t enough and Apple moved to revolutionise the Tablet PC in the form of the iPad.

Apple has had a long career with many ups and downs but it has really come into itself with the return of Steve Jobs. Apple changed the computer market for ever with things like the PowerBook, the iPod and their whole range of ‘I’ innovations. This is how Apple has established itself today as a multibillion dollar company, with a cutting edge range of products and range of apps on the Apple Store.

Apple’s iRadio streaming service

 

With Apple being the secretive outfit that it is, there are always plenty of rumors doing the rounds about what high-tech goodies it might or might not have up its sleeve.

Recent talk has focused on the so-called iTV and the possibility of an iWatch. And over the weekend, another i-product hit the headlines, though admittedly not for the first time.

A report from The Verge over the weekend claimed iRadio, a music streaming service set to rival the likes of Spotify and Pandora, is gearing up for a summer launch.

“iRadio is coming. There’s no doubt about it anymore,” music industry insiders told the tech site. The “multiple” sources added that talks between Apple and leading music labels such as Universal and Warner had taken significant steps forward recently, increasing the chances of a launch in the coming months.

According to a recent New York Post report, the Cupertino company is pushing for a deal that would result in it paying 6 cents per 100 song streams. Pandora is reportedly paying 12 cents for the same number of song streams, while Spotify is said to be paying around 35 cents.

“Music label insiders suggest Apple — which is sitting on a cash hoard of roughly $137 billion — ought to pay at least the rate set by the Copyright Royalty Board, or about 21 cents per 100 songs streamed,” the Post reported.

So would the music labels really ink a deal with the tech giant for that kind of money? With Apple’s iDevices and iTunes software so widely used, quite possibly. And if they do, and Apple launches iRadio some time this year, Albert Fried & Co. analyst Richard Tullo believes the service could pull in some 20 million users in its first 12 months. Pandora, which launched in 2005, is believed to have around 150 million users.

There have been several reports over the last six months or so suggesting Apple is prepping a streaming radio service. In September, the Wall Street Journal reported that a free, ad-supported service would be made available across all of Apple’s hardware products – ie. its mobile devices and Mac computers – and possibly PCs running Windows, too.

And in February, graphic designer Austin Smith was tinkering with iOS 6.1’s system files on his iPod Touch when he stumbled across data linked to icons showing an antenna broadcasting a signal while exploring. No, Apple developers won’t have thrown them in there just for the fun of it.

There’s currently no word on whether iRadio would get a global launch or be restricted to US-based users at the beginning. Lets wait for that, Apple may launch this in this summer..

Gameloft Announces Official Iron Man 3 Game For iOS And Android

If you are a fan of the Iron Man series of movies, chances are you probably can’t wait to catch Iron Man 3 upon its release. For those who consider themselves more hardcore fans, the folks at Gameloft have announced the Iron Man 3 game will be making its way onto iOS and Android devices on the 25^th of April. From what we can see in the trailer video, it does not look too bad and could even be pretty fun, although I still have a bit of skepticism and see this more as a promotional tool rather than an actual proper game. Then again I could be wrong but in any case, for those interested, the 25^th of April is a date you’ll want to mark on your calendars, and in the meantime feel free to check out the trailer in the video above to get an idea of what you might be able to expect.