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Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar. He died of respiratory arrest related to his metastatic tumor on October 5, 2011 Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955. His biological parents, unwed graduate students Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali, had him adopted by a lower-middle-class couple from south of the Bay Area, Paul and Clara Jobs. One More Thing...

Steve Jobs was a vegetarian. When he became the largest shareholder of Disney he prevailed on the company to not renew a deal to include its toys in the McDonalds happy meal. Jobs and Amazons Jeff Bezos were invited to discuss the Segway before its launch. Jobs was asked what he thought of the design. I think it sucks! was his terse reply. Jobs sold his Apple shares two months before he was reinstated in the company. He would have made $16 million more had he waited. But he thought the Apple board wasnt doing enough and only held one share when he joined back. In August 2008, Bloomberg accidentally published an obituary for Steve Jobs. Unlike his latter-day black turtle necks, Jobs preferred white shirts during his days at NeXT. In his final call with Bill Gates before announcing how Apple and Microsoft would work together, Gates exchanged notes on what they would be wearing for the conference. Jobs said: Ill be wearing a white shirt. In 2000, when VCs decided Google needed an experienced CEO, the only person Co-Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin agreed on Jobs. But Jobs had rejoined Apple just two years earlier. Jobs is said to have overseen plans for the next four years of Apple products before his death. Jobs e-mail ID sjobs@apple.com was known to the public and people often to wrote to him directly. When a student complained that the companys PR department wasnt responding to her questions, he wrote back: Our goals do not include helping you get a good grade. Sorry. Steve Jobs liking for blue denims is legendary. When he was ousted from Apple he said that one of the problems the board had with him was that he wore the wrong kind of pants. On product development, Jobs principle was: Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But its worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. Jobs wanted the soundtrack of Toy Story to be written and performed by Bob Dylan Producer Ralph Guggenheim resisted. Jobs dabbled in primal scream therapy, a kind of psychotherapy to deal with childhood trauma. When Jobs visited Xerox PARC, he saw a computer mouse for the first time. Engineer Larry Tesler conducted the demonstration. Jobs was pacing around the room, acting up the whole time, Tesler recalls. He was very excited. Then, when he began seeing the things I could do on-screen, he watched for about a minute and started jumping around the room, shouting: Why arent you doing anything with this? This is the greatest thing. This is revolutionary. Instead of getting hardware engineers, Jobs got an industrial design firm to develop Apples mouse. His told designer Dean Hovey that the mouse, which Xerox was making at $300 and which had a life of two weeks, should cost less than $15 and should not fail for a couple of years. I want to be able to use it on Formica and on my blue jeans. Jobs stated. Hovey went to a supermarket and bought all the underarm deodorants he could find, because they had the ball (which acts like a wheel in the mouse) in them. And he bought a butter dish. That was the beginning of the mouse. The yard of Jobs house has half a dozen apple trees.

In an interview with Time, Jobs said that when he first saw Laurene Powell, who became his wife later, she overloaded his circuits. After he was ousted from Apple, Jobs thought he had five more great products in him, which included the iPhone.

Apple I Computer
Main article: Apple I The first significant invention that Steve Jobs was involved in was the Apple I which came along in 1976. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who was at the time working for HP, scraped together some cash for printed circuit boards. Then they planned to sell the machine as a kit for $666.66. A store called the Byte Shop ordered 50 fully assembled devices, and sold them all.[130] The Apples first computer was for hobbyists and engineers so it was made in small numbers.[131]

Apple II Computer
Main article: Apple II During 1976, Steve Wozniak began work on the Apple II, and left HP to join Apple computer. In March 1977, Apple Computer moved from Jobs's garage to an office in Cupertino. Apple Computer delivered its first Apple II system, for US$1295 in April 1977.[132] Steve Jobs once said the Apple II could be described as an "appliance" computer. The Apple II was the first computer to be enclosed in plastic.[133] Jobs insisted that molded plastic was essential to the computer as a consumer item. The Apple II was elegantly styled" and it became compared to an "overgrown pocket calculator".[134] Ten months after its introduction, Apple Computer began work on an enhanced Apple II with custom chips, code-named Annie, in 1978. At the same year, they began work on a supercomputer named Lisa; it featured a bit-sliced architecture. After two and a half years, 50,000 Apple II units had been sold until 1979. Nearly one-third of Canadians credited the Apple II as the first personal computer which having the most impact on society.[135]

The Macintosh Computer

The Macintosh was introduced in January 1984. The computer had no Mac name on the front, but rather just the Apple logo.[130] The Macintosh have a friendly appearance since it was meant to be easy to use. The disk drive is below the display, the Macintosh was taller, narrower, more symmetrical, and far more suggestive of a face. The Macintosh was identified as a computer that ordinary people could understand.[136]

The NeXT Computer

Main article: NeXT Computer After Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985, he started a company that built workstation computers. The NeXT Computer was introduced in 1989. Sir Tim

Berners-Lee created the worlds first web browser on the NeXT Computer. The NeXT Computer was the basis for todays Macintosh OS X and iPhone operating system (iOS).[137]

iMac
Main article: IMac Apple iMac was introduced in 1998 and its innovative design was directly the result of Jobs's return to Apple. Apple boasted "the back of our computer looks better than the front of anyone else's".[138] Described as "cartoonlike" the first iMac, clad in Bondi Blue plastic, was unlike any personal computer that came before. In 1999, Apple introduced Graphite gray Apple iMac and since has switched to all-white. Design ideas were intended to create a connection with the user such as the handle and a breathing light effect when the computer went to sleep.. [139] The Apple iMac sold for $1,299 at that time. There was some technical revolutions for iMac too. The USB ports being the only device inputs on the iMac. So the iMacs success helped popularize the interface among third party peripheral makers, which is evidenced by the fact that many early USB peripherals were made of translucent plastic to match the iMac design.[140]

iPod
Main article: IPod The first generation of iPod was released October 23, 2001. The major innovation of the iPod was its small size achieved by using a 1.8" hard drive compared to the 2.5" drives common to players at that time. The capacity of the first generation iPod ranged from 5G to 10 Gigabytes.[141] The iPod sold for US$399 and more than 100,000 iPods were sold before the end of 2001. The introduction of the iPod resulted in Apple becoming a major player in the music industry.[142] Also, the iPods success prepared the way for the iTunes music store and the iPhone.[131] After the 1st generation of iPod, Apple released the hard drive-based iPod classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, video-capable iPod Nano, screenless iPod Shuffle in the following years.[142]

iPhone
Main article: IPhone Jobs began work on the first iPhone in 2005 and the first iPhone was released on June 29, 2007. The iPhone created such a sensation that a survey indicated six out of ten Americans were aware of its release. Time magazine declared it "Invention of the Year" for 2007.[143] The Apple iPhone is a small device with multimedia capabilities and functions as a quad-band touch screen smartphone.[144] A year later, the iPhone 3G was released in July 2008 with the key feature was support for GPS, 3G data and quad-band UMTS/HSDPA. In June 2009, the iPhone 3GS, added voice

control, a better camera, and a faster processor was introduced by Phil Schiller.[145] iPhone 4 was thinner than previous models, had a five megapixel camera which can record videos in 720p HD, and added a secondary front facing camera for video calls.[146] A major feature of the iPhone 4S, introduced in October 2011, was Siri, which is a virtual assistant that is capable of voice recognition. [143]

Philanthropy
Arik Hesseldahl of BusinessWeek magazine stated that "Jobs isn't widely known for his association with philanthropic causes", compared to Bill Gates's efforts.[147] In contrast to Gates, Jobs did not sign the Giving Pledge of Warren Buffett which challenged the worlds richest billionaires to give at least half their wealth to charity.[148] In an interview with Playboy in 1985, Jobs said in respect to money that the challenges are to figure out how to live with it and to reinvest it back into the world which means either giving it away or using it to express your concerns or values.[149]Jobs also added that when he has some time we would start a public foundation but for now he does charitable acts privately.[150] After resuming control of Apple in 1997, Jobs eliminated all corporate philanthropy programs initially.[151] Jobss friends told The New York Times that he felt that expanding Apple would have done more good than giving money to charity.[152] Later, under Jobs, Apple signed to participate in Product Red program, producing red versions of devices to give profits from sales to charity. Apple has gone on to become the largest contributor to the charity since its initial involvement with it. The chief of the Product Red project, singer Bono cited Jobs saying there was "nothing better than the chance to save lives," when he initially approached Apple with the invitation to participate in the program.[153] Through its sales, Apple has been the largest contributor to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, according to Bono