A man who revolutionized the world
Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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Roha Aslam, Mirko spigato English Biography 26
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Chapter 1: Quick facts Chapter 2: Early life Chapter 3: Studies Chapter 4: Apple Apple products Apple logo
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Quick facts NAME Steve Jobs OCCUPATION Inventor BIRTH DATE February 24, 1955 DEATH DATE October 5, 2011 EDUCATION Reed College, Homestead High School PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco, California PLACE OF DEATH Palo Alto, California AKA Steven Jobs FULL NAME Steven Paul Jobs
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Early life
http://www.biography.com/people/steve-jobs9354805#awesm=~oDqy3Tw6zQbgND
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Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, to Joanne Schieble and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, two graduate students of University of Wisconsin, who gave their unnamed son up for adoption. His father, Abdulfattah Jandali, was a Syrian political science professor and his mother, Joanne Schieble, worked as a speech therapist. Shortly after Steve was placed for adoption, his biological parents married and had another child, Mona Simpson. It was not until Jobs was 27 that he was able to uncover information on his biological parents.
As an infant, Steven was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs. Clara worked as an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist. He grew up with one sister, Patty. As a boy, Jobs and his father would work on electronics in the family garage. Paul would show his son how to take apart and reconstruct electronics, a hobby which instilled confidence, tenacity and mechanical prowess in young Jobs. In 1961 the family moved to Mountain View, California. This area, just south of Palo Alto, California, was becoming a center for electronics.
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Electronics form the basic elements of devices such as radios, televisions, stereos, and computers. At that time people started to refer to the area as “Silicon Valley." This is because a substance called silicon is used in the manufacturing of electronic parts. As a child, Jobs preferred doing things by himself. He swam competitively, but was not interested in team sports or other group activities. He showed an early interest in electronics and gadgetry. He spent a lot of time working in the garage workshop of a neighbor who worked at Hewlett-Packard, an electronics manufacturer. Jobs also enrolled in the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Club. There he saw engineers demonstrate new products, and he saw his first computer at the age of twelve. He was very impressed, and knew right away that he wanted to work with computers. While in high school Jobs attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard plant. On one occasion he boldly asked William Hewlett (1931–2001), the president, for some parts he needed to complete a class project. Hewlett was so impressed he gave Jobs the parts, and offered him a summer internship at Hewlett-Packard.
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Studies
Standford university speech: http://youtu.be/UF8uR6Z6KLc
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Jobs' youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. At Monta Loma Elementary school he was a prankster whose fourth-grade teacher needed to bribe him to study. Jobs tested so well, however, that ad-ministrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school but his parents refused. Jobs then attended Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. Reed was an expensive college which Paul and Clara couldn’t afford. Jobs dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes, including a course on calligraphy.
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In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari. Several months later he left Atari to find spiritual enlightenment in India, traveling the continent.
In 1975 Jobs joined a group known as the Homebrew Computer Club. One member, a technical whiz named Steve Wozniak (1950), was trying to build a small computer. Jobs became fascinated with the marketing potential of such a computer. In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computers. They called it Apple Computer Company, in memory of a happy summer, Jobs had spent picking apples. The duo started in the Jobs family garage, and funded their entrepreneurial venture after Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak sold his beloved scientific calculator. At first they sold circuit boards (the boards that hold the internal components of a computer) while they worked on the computer prototype (sample).
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Steve wozniak and Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak’s scientific calculator Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry by democratizing the technology and making the machines smaller, cheaper, intuitive and accessible to everyday consumers. Wozniak conceived a series of user-friendly personal computers, and with Jobs in charge of marketing. Apple initially marketed the computers for $666.66 each, and the Apple I earned the corporation around $774,000. Three years after the release of Apple's second model, the Apple II, the company's sales increased by 700 percent, to $139 million. In 1980, Apple Computer became a publicly traded company, with a market value of $1.2 billion on its very first day of trading. Jobs looked to marketing expert John Scully of Pepsi-Cola to help fill the role of Apple's president.
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Apple products Macbook air presentation: http://youtu.be/OIV6peKMj9M
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Apple products Apple I was the first Apple product. It was a fully assembled personal computer, with a homemade wooden computer case. the Apple I was a fully mount circuit board containing about 60+ chips. However, to make a working computer, users still had to add a case, power supply transformers, power switch, ASCII keyboard, and composite video display. An optional board providing a cassette interface for storage was released later. (The circuit board of a fully assembled Apple I)
Apple I
The circuit board of a fully assembled Apple I
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Apple products The Apple II series (trademarked with square brackets as "Apple ][") introduced in 1977, is a set of home computers, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products with two Disk II floppy disk drives and a 1980s-era Apple Monitor II. The Apple II featured an integrated keyboard, sound, a plastic case, and eight internal expansion slots. Apple ][
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Apple products The Lisa is a personal computer designed during the early 1980s. It was the first personal computer to offer a graphical user interface in an inexpensive machine aimed at individual business users. Development of the Lisa began in 1978. Apple stated the name was an acronym for Local Integrated System Architecture or "LISA". It was normally inferred that the name also had a personal association, Since Steve Jobs' first daughter (born in 1978) was named Lisa Nicole Brennan.
Apple Lisa, with an Apple ProFile external hard disk sitting atop it.
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Apple products In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh, marketing the computer as a piece of a counter culture life-style: romantic, youthful, creative. The Mac launches on January 24th. Jobs unveiled the Mac, which began to speak using a voice synthesis program: "Hello, I am Macintosh", finishing with, "So it is with considerable pride that I introduce the man who's been like a father to me, Steve Jobs.“ The Mac initially sells well, but starts to falter in sales because of the lack of competitive functionality." Microsoft's three programs: Paint, Word and Write, were some of the rare applications available. It also lacked features other personal computers had, such as a corresponding high quality printer. The failure of the Macintosh signaled the beginning of Jobs' downfall at Apple.
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Newton Message Pad 100
Apple II GS
Macintosh Portable
Macintosh plus
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Apple logo IPad presentation(2010): http://youtu.be/zU7BRvejni4
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Apple logo
The original apple logo featuring Isacc newton under the faled tree.
The rainbow Apple logo , used from late 1976 to early 1998.
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The Modern look for the Apple logo has had a variety of color variations in recent years. The “official” design is chrome looking, but we have seen the logo in a variety of colors on Apple’s official site. It has appeared on the site as red, blue, and gray.
Apple’s current logo
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Next & Pixar
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In 1985, Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO to begin a new hardware and software company called NeXT, Inc. The following year Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar Animation Studios. Believing in Pixar's potential, Jobs initially invested $50 million of his own money into the company.
Pixar Studios went on to produce wildly popular animation films such as Toy Story. Pixar's films have netted $4 billion. The studio merged with Walt Disney in 2006, making Steve Jobs Disney's largest shareholder. Despite Pixar's success, NeXT, Inc. floundered in its attempts to sell its specialized operating system to mainstream America. Apple eventually bought the company in 1997 for $429 million. That same year, Jobs returned to his post as Apple's CEO. Much like Steve Jobs instigated Apple's success in the 1970s, he is credited with revitalizing the company in the 1990s. With a new management team, altered stock options and a self-imposed annual salary of $1 a year, Jobs put Apple back on track. His ingenious products such as the iMac, effective branding campaigns, and stylish designs caught the attention of consumers once again.
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Pancreatic tumor
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In 2003, Jobs discovered that he had a tumor, a rare but operable form of pancreatic cancer. Instead of immediately opting for surgery, Jobs chose to alter his pescovegetarian diet while weighing Eastern treatment options. For nine months, Jobs postponed surgery, making Apple's board of directors nervous. Executives feared that shareholders would pull their stocks if word got out that their CEO was ill. But in the end, Jobs‘ confidentiality took precedence over shareholder disclosure. In 2004, he had a successful surgery to remove the pancreatic tumor. True to form, in subsequent years, Jobs disclosed little about his health. Jobs died at his California home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, due to complications from this tumor.
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“Think Different”
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower”
Steve What’sJobs Your Message? (1955 - 2011) “I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
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