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Apple and Steve Jobs
Biography of Steve Jobs

Nationality: American

Date of birth: 24/02/1955

Birthplace: San Francisco (California)

Country of residence: USA

Top Companies: Apple Inc.

Size: 1,88 m
 _ Inventor, entrepreneur, visionary
and a pioneer.

_Co-founder, CEO and chairman

of the board of Apple Inc.
_ Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Jobs was an American inventor
and entrepreneur, widely recognized as a visionary and a
pioneer of the personal computer revolution.

_ Co-founder, CEO and chairman of the board of Apple Inc,

he also directed the Pixar studios and became a member of
the board of Disney in 2006 during the takeover of Pixar by
Disney.

_ Apple was established on 1 April 1976 in Cupertino,

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.

Biography of Steve Jobs

Born on February 24th, 1955 in San Francisco,
California

Put up for adoption a week after birth

Adoption was finalized under the condition that

Steven would attend college
 Skipped 5th grade

Took his first electronics

class in high school

After school, attended lectures at the Hewlett-

Packard company where he met Steve
Wonzniak during work
Graduated high school in 1972

Enrolled in Reed College in Oregon

Dropped out after one semester

Slept on his friends dorm room floor and

dropped in on classes of interest
 Returned to California in 1974 and was hired
as a technician for Atari

Attended meetings at
Wozniak’s “Homebrew
Computer Club”

Steve convinced Wozniak to work with him in

building computers
Born on April 1st, 1 976

Apple I designed and prototype built

First single board computer with built-in video

interface
 Apple II designed in the following year

Operating System loaded automatically

Smaller Components & built-in

circuitry

In 1976, Jobs looked to hire a

public relations agency to help
advertise
 Most investors turned Apple down

Retired Intel executive Mike Markkula decided

to invest

Markkula became chairman

of Apple in May 1977
 Became publicly traded company in 1980

Launched LISA in 1983

First commercial
computer to use GUI

Unpopular due to its few software programs

and high price
Macintosh created to compete with PC

Marketed for friendliness, not just a mindless

machine

Very popular – sold approximately 70,000

Macs in the first 100 days
Sales began to plunge

Wozniak quit Apple in 1985

Board members of Apple met on May 28th,

1985 and each voted on the removal of Steve
from the company
 After taking time off, Jobs wanted to get back to
Apple and his love for computers

Decided to start his own

company

Founded NeXT Computer in 1989

NeXT turned a profit for the first time in 1992

NeXT software needed to be made more

reliable and compatible for consumers

Company slowly starts going downhill

Jobs had to make drastic decisions

Microsoft purchased NeXT software

Microsoft came up with $150 million to stake in

Apple

Saved a dying company.

Jobs began looking into alternatives to Object
Linking and Embedding

Created OpenDoc

Jobs was very serious about this

NeXT STEP software was being turned into
Mac OS X

Under Jobs’ guidance the company increased

sales

Introduced the iMac and other new products

 In early 2000, Pixar leads animated film
industry

Later that month,

Jobs announced his
return to the CEO
position

Insisted on keeping his $1 annual salary

 First project as CEO was the G4 Cube

Was too expensive

and didn’t satisfy a
certain market

Lasted only twelve

months in Apple’s line-up
The next step for Steve was his newest
operating system, Mac OS X

The future of Apple

In 2001, Jobs opened Apple retail stores so
customers could:
1. Try out computers
2. Test software
3. Meet with salespeople

 This was a large risk but he knew that people would

want to buy them
 His Inventions
_ Up until his death Steve Jobs oversaw Apple's creation and
development with the invention of the iMac (1998), the iPod, iTunes
and the launch of the company's chain stores : Apple Store (2001),
the iTunes Store (2003), iPhone (2007) and the iPad (2010). The
company came up with different products which made his company
one of the richest in the world.

_ These inventions have revolutionized the world of music and the

touch device.
 Less than a year after iTunes was released,
Apple released the iPod

Originally only for Mac users

In July 2002, the new iPod was

available for Windows users as
well

Sales skyrocketed and 75% of MP3 players are

iPods
 June 6th, 2005, Jobs announced switch
from PowerPC chips to Intel chips.

This would conserve

energy on PowerBook
and iBook
 October 2005, 5th generation of iPod was
introduced

Could play music

videos and TV shows

Jobs announced the

opening of the iTunes
video store
 Despite a recent scare with pancreatic cancer,
Jobs is back in health and doing just fine

Jobs is an influential man who learned from

his failures and gained
maturity from them

True role model

 His inventions
In early 1997

In 2003
 His inventions
In early 1997

In 2007
 His inventions
In early 1997

In 2010
_ In October 2003, doctors learn that Steve Jobs was
suffering from a cancer. He did not reveal his illness to
his employees and the public until August 2004 after
undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from
his pancreas.

_ Two year slater, he appeared very thin, prompting

rumors of a return of the disease. In January 2009 he
was forced to take sick leave, announcing he was
suffering from a hormonal imbalance.

_ Then on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 Steve Jobs'

death was announced in San Francisco 23:00.
His illness