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EARLY CHILDHOOD
Born February 24,1955 in San Francisco, CA to Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah John Jandali
Adopted at birth by Paul and Clara Jobs to live in Santa Clara, California
Named- Steven Paul Jobs. Grew up in the Silicon Valley (later to be known as Silicon Valley).
EDUCATION
Graduated high school in Cupertino, California Attended Hewlett-Packard lectures after school. Worked with Steve Wozniak in summer. Attended Reed College after high school. Dropped out after one semester. Continued auditing courses in classes he liked.
Did part-time job at Atari to finance trip to India for studying Eastern Culture & Religion.
START OF APPLE
On April 1, 1976, Apple Computer Co. was formed Their first PC - The Apple I, sold for $666.66 The Apple II, released next year, was huge success. In May of 1980, released Apple III. Created PC-Lisa with GUI.
From 1977 to 1983, Apple continued to grow exponentially. ` Steve Jobs and Steve
Wozniak
Lisa
In 1981, IBM entered PC market & in 2 years began to outsell Apple. Apples sales and shine began to wear off Jobs needed a new computer that could compete with IBM PC January 24, 1984 Jobs introduced Macintosh with:
GUI 128K of expandable memory Pointing device: mouse
Macintosh
to leave.
Jobs then founded NeXT. Created NeXT Cube PC which
1986.
Three films contract from Disney. Created first computer animated film. Toy story was an instant hit in 1995
PIXAR
Jobs.
In 2000, Jobs became CEO of Apple
Created iMac 1st PC marketed for its looks
MACINTOSH PROJECT
iMac 1988
iMac
MACINTOSH PROJECT
EVOLUTION OF iMAC
projects like:
iPod iTunes Music Store High end computers
Name changed from Apple Computer Inc. to Apple Inc. iPods sold since year 2001 300+ mn.
iPHONE
Phones were broken in Jobs eyes until the iPhone. The iPhone enhanced the phone industry.
EVOLUTION OF iPHONE
Touchscreen
Lightweight
HONOURS
National Medal of Technology from President Ronald Reagan in
1985 with Steve Wozniak (the first people to ever receive the honor).
Jefferson Award for Public Service in the category "Greatest
ACCORDING TO OTHERS
sales.
Great innovator and creative.
Small percentage of P.C market. Positive outlook on comments. Jobs as Genius. Jobs as Creep.
PERSONAL LIFE
Steve married Laurene Powell on
Jobs.
In 2004, Jobs announced to have
the tumor.
In 2009 Jobs went on 6 months
RECENT UPDATES
Countries.
Last quarter they had 85,000,000 visitors. App stores 1 mn + applications. 3 billion applications downloaded in 18
months
Fiscal quarter of 2010 ended with $15.6 bn of
the world.
QUOTE
We started out to get a computer in the hands of everyday people, and we succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. - Steve Jobs
CONCLUSION
Steve Jobs - extraordinary man by
standards.
Left mark in 4 industries:
PC Music Phone
Animation