The whole world grieves on the news of the death of Steve Jobs, who revolutionized the world of technology and also made the world realize that good simple technology is for everyone.
Being a college drop-out and a person who never completed his graduation, Steve Jobs built computers in his parents’ garage in the mid-1970s with a friend, Steve Wozniak. Together they founded Apple in 1976 to sell their innovations and creativity.
Apple, based in Cupertino, California, surpassed Microsoft in 2010 to become the world’s most valuable technology company.
Steve Jobs Biographyby Walter Isaacson
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The Genesis of Steve Jobs:
Steve Jobs, the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc, has died aged 56. Here are some key dates from his life and work.
1955: Stephen Paul Jobs is born on February 24 in San Francisco to Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali. In the same year, Jobs was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs in San Francisco, who then moved to Mountain View, California, five month later. He later on attended the Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California.
1969: Jobs was offered a summer job at Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) by William Hewlett.
1971: Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak; the two later found Apple Computer Inc.
1972: Graduates from high school and enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but drops out after a semester. Although he dropped out, he continued auditing classes at Reed, while sleeping on the floor in friends’ rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple.
Jobs quotes: “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.”
1974: Steve returns to California and began attending meetings of the “Homebrew Computer Club,” with Wozniak, which discussed about home computers. In the same year, he got a job as a technician at Atari, a manufacturer of popular video games.
Jobs then travelled to India to visit the Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram with a Reed College friend, Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment. He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing.
1976: Jobs and Wozniak raise US$1,750 and build their first marketable table-top computer, the Apple I. The Apple I computer goes on sale by the summer for $666.66.
1977: Apple is incorporated as Apple Computer Inc. and the new company buys out the original partnership. Apple launches Apple II, the world’s first widely used PC.
1978: Jobs’ daughter Lisa is born to girlfriend Chrisann Brennan.
1979: Jobs visits Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre, or PARC, and is inspired by a computer with a graphical user interface.
1980: Apple III launched as a commercial failure because of faulty construction.
1982: Annual sales climb to $1 billion.
1983: Apple launched the Lisa. It was the first personal computer controlled by on-screen icons activated at the click of a mouse. However, it fails in the marketplace.
1984: Apple launches Macintosh with a splashy ad campaign on Super Bowl Sunday.
1985: Jobs was fired from Apple after boardroom struggle with Sculley. Jobs resigns and takes five Apple employees with him, including Wozniak.
1986: Jobs starts Next Inc., a new computer company making high-end machines for universities. He also acquires Pixar from “Star Wars” for $10 million, which was later renamed Pixar Animation Studios.
1989: First Next computer goes on sale with a $6,500 price tag, also known as The Cube. It also fail in the marketplace.
1991: Apple and IBM Corp. announce an partnership to develop new PC microprocessors and software. Apple unveils PowerBook portable Macintoshes. In the same year he marries Laurene Powell.
1992: Next releases NEXTSTEP operating system for Intel Corp. 486 processors. It fails in the wake of competition from Microsoft Corp.’s Windows and IBM Corp.’s OS/2.
1993: Next shuts hardware division, shifts focus to software.1994: 1994: Apple introduces Power Macintosh computers based on the PowerPC chip it developed with IBM and Motorola.
1995: The first Mac clone goes on sale, and Microsoft releases Windows 95, which is more like the Mac system.
1996: Apple acquires Next Computers for $427 million in cash. Steve Jobs becomes the advisor to Apple Chairman Gilbert F. Amelio.
1997: Jobs becomes interim CEO and chairman of Apple Computer Inc., after Amelio is ousted. Jobs’ salary is $1. He also puts an end to Mac clones.
1998: Apple releases the all-in-one iMac computer, which sells millions of units, and discontinues the Newton.
2000: ‘Interim’ dropped from Jobs’ title.2001: Apple launches next-generation operating system – the Unix-based OS X, with subsequent upgrades over the years. 2001: The first iPod goes on sale, as do computers with OS X, the modern Mac operating system based on Next software. Apple also releases iTunes software.
2004: Jobs undergoes surgery for a rare but curable form of pancreatic cancer.
2005: Apples release a tiny Nano and an iPod that can play video. Apple also announced that future Mac will be powered by Intel chips.
2006: Disney buys Pixar for $7.4 billion. Jobs becomes Disney’s largest individual shareholder, and much of his wealth is derived from this sale.
2007: Jobs announces the iPhone, one of the first smartphones without a keyboard, at Macworld Expo.
2010: Apple sells 15 million iPads, its newest gadget, in nine months, giving rise to a new category of modern touch-screen tablet computers.January 17, 2011: Jobs announces a second medical leave with no set off duration in a memo to Apple employees. COO Tim Cook takes in-charge to run day-to-day operations. However, Jobs mentioned that he would continue as CEO and will be involve in major decisions.
March 2011: Taking a break from his medical leave, Jobs makes an appearance at an event in San Francisco to introduce the iPad 2.
June 2011: Jobs appears at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco to introduce the iCloud and iOS 5. Jobs announces he is stepping aside as CEO, with Cook taking over that role. It also is announced that the board has elected Jobs chairman.
August 24, 2011: Jobs announces he is stepping aside as CEO, with Tim Cook taking over the position. It is also announced that the board has elected Jobs chairman.
Steve Jobs Biographyby Walter Isaacson
>>> Click Here to order it on Amazon <<<
(This is the cheapest place we found to purchase this bestseller.)
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