Steve Jobs

and Apple
Company
Alice Vietti
10-30-14
A3
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Research paper outline rough draft

Steve jobs and Apple Company
I.
II.

III.

IV.

Childhood
A. School days
B. College
Apple
A. Starting of
B. Shoving point
C. Touchscreen
D. IPhone
Pixar
A. How he got started there
B. What he did there
C. When and why he stopped
E.
DEATH TO STEVE JOBS
A. What he did in his years before his death
B. How he died

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Childhood
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955. His parents were graduate
students, who gave him up for adoption because their parents didnt want
them to marry. He was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs in 1955. They moved
from San Francisco to Mountain View, California when Steve was 5. They then
adopted a daughter named Patty.
Paul worked as a mechanic and a carpenter, and taught his son rudimentary
electronics and how to work with his hands. He showed Steve how to work on
electronics such as radios and televisions, showing him how to take apart
and rebuild them, in his garage. As a result, he became interested technical
thinking at an early age.
Grade School Days
Steve went to Monta Loma Elementary school. Jobs had many frustrations
over formal schooling. He frequently played pranks on the teachers and
students. Although, his school often recommended that he skip grades on
account of his test scores. Paul and Clara finally put him in a higher grade.
Jobs then attended Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School. At
Homestead, Steve became friends with Bill Hernandez, who shared the same
interest in electronics as him. Steve also met a kid names Steve Wozniak,
who was a computer and electronics whiz.
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College
Jobs graduated his high school in 1972. He went to Reed College in Oregon. It
was expensive, and his parents could barely aford it.
Jobs dropped out of college after 6 months and spent the next 18 months
looking in on creative classes. He also snuck into a couple of calligraphy
classes. He slept on the floor of his friends dorms, and returned coke bottles
for food money. In the commencement address he gave at Stanford, Jobs
said that 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.

Apple
Starting of
In 1976, Wozniak single handedly invented he Apple 1 computer. After he
showed it to jobs, they decided to try and sell it. They and Ronald Wayne
formed Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs parents garage. Wayne then
left the trio, leaving jobs and Wozniak the primary co-founders of Apple.
In 1978, Apple recruited Mike Scott to serve as a CEO. In 1983, Jobs hired
John Sculley to serve as another CEO
Shoving Point
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The Macintosh computer was introduced in January 1984. The computer had
only the apple logo. Steve Wozniak said that the Mac failed under Steve Jobs,
and that it wasnt until Jobs left that it became a success.
In 1998 the Apple iMac was introduced. The design was directly the result of
Jobs return Apple.
The first generation iPod was released on October23, 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 at that time.
IPhone
Apple began work on the first IPhone in 20052 and the first one was released
on June 29, 2007. The IPhone created such a sensation that a survey
indicated 6/10 Americans were aware of its release.

Pixar
How He got Started There
Steve funded Pixar in 1986 and that was when it really started going. He
then became its majority shareholder.
The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar from jobs in 2006 for $7.4 billion, a
transaction which made Jobs Disneys biggest Disney shareholder

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Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
Steve jobs biography:
http://www.biography.com/people/steve-jobs-9354805
Steve Jobs Biography for kids-founder of Apple:
http://mrnussbaum.com/steve-jobs/

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