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STEVE JOBS By: Anthony Did you know that Steve Jobs wanted to change the future of technology? Well he did just that, he changed the way most of us use technology. Steve was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco. When his birth parents knew they were having a baby the put Steve up for adoption. The Jobs really wanted a kid so they adopted him. When he was growing up he lived in Mountain View, California or better known as Silicon Valley. When he was a kid he loved to watch his dad work on machines. That is why he loved to work. As a kid, since he loved to work, he got a job at the HewlettPackard over the summer. He enrolled for Reed College in Oregon. His family could not afford it, so he persuaded the teachers to give him free classes. Sleeping at night was another problem he had, he sleeped on the floor of his friends dorm room. The first apple computer was made in 1972. He invented the Macintosh computer on January 24, 1984. The first IPod he made was on October 23, 2001. Steve invented the IPhone on June 29, 2007. His last invention was the iPad which he made on April 3, 2010. He died on October 5, 2011 because of cancer.
Some interesting facts about Steve are that he got fired from head of Apple and when and made a new company named NeXT. NeXT was not working well for Steve so he got a job at Pixar. He got Disney to pay for three full length moves instead of short films. Later on Pixar came out with Toy Story one of their first Pixar movies. Apple fired the person they replaced as head and asked Steve to come back. He said that he stayed for a month till they found someone to replace as head, but after a month he decided to stay with Apple and paid himself $1 an hour. Around when Steve invented Apple Company the technology invented was the mobile phone which was
invented on August 14, 1950, the laptop which was made on April 3,1981, and the USB Flash Drive which was made on December 15, 2000.
The benefits of the Inventions are that all of the Apple products have changed the way of technology and how other devices work with the way they are used. Some of the first IPods characteristics (and how it works) are it is a MP3 play which hold 1000 song and it fits in your pocket. It is an ultra- portable MP3, since its ultra- portable it has to have an ultra-thin hard drive 1.8 inch drive is 0.20 inches thick and its 5 gigabytes 1000 song at 160K bit rate. It has a 20 minutes skip protection. It has a FireWire; it is the first music player with FireWire. It is fast, you can download an entire CD in less than 10 seconds. The IPod is 30 times faster than any other MP3 player. It has a ten hour battery life and it only took one hour to charge 80%. The iPods size is as big a deck of cards and weighs 6.5 ounces. With all of Steve’s plans for Apple he was able to change the way people use technology.
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