Steve Jobs

Lets start with stories of Steves life

 Steve Jobs
Co-founder, Chairman
and CEO,
Apple Inc.
Co-founder and
CEO, Pixar
 The Jobs family
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in the city of
San Francisco.
His biological mother was either an unwed graduate
student named Joanne Simpson, and his biological father
was a political science or mathematics professor, a native
Syrian named Abdulfattah John Jandali.
His biological parents didnt wanted steve at that time so they started to
find parents for him through adoption, his mother insisted that the future
parents of her boy be just as well educated.

Unfortunately, the candidates, Paul and Clara Jobs, did not meet her
expectations: they were a lower-middle class couple that had settled in the
Bay Area after the war.
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Paul was a machinist from the Midwest who had not even graduated from
high school.
In the end, Joanne agreed to have her baby adopted by them, under the
firm condition that they later send him to college.
Paul and Clara called their son Steven Paul.

While Steve was still a toddler, the couple moved to the Santa Clara
county, later to be known as Silicon Valley.
 Childhood
Steve was quite a turbulent child.

He really didnt care about school for some time

until he reached the 4th grade, and had Imogene
Teddy Hill as a teacher.
She was one of the saints of my life. She taught an
advanced fourth grade class, and it took her about a
month to get hip to my situation. She bribed me into
learning.
She did bribe him, with candy and $5 bills from her own money.

He quickly became hooked so much so that he skipped the 5th grade

and went straight to middle school, namely Crittenden Middle School.
It was in a poor area. Most kids did not work much there, they were rather
fond of bullying other kids, such as the young Steve.
Steve jobs family
Careers
 Apple Inc.
Steve Jobs' career with Apple Inc. started when he
created it with Steve Wozniak in 1976.
At the time, Steve noticed that all the computers being
sold were mainframe ones, (computers which take up
basically a whole room and the cost is great).
So he and Steve redid the designs they were working
on to build personal computers,(computers much smaller
and the price much cheaper then the mainframe
computers).
The solution to this was Apple II, a computer that came put together,
opposed to the Apple I which required you to buy separate pieces.
The Apple II started being sold in 1977 and after a year of being sold, made
a huge amount of money, $2.7 million.
 Apple Inc.
The Apple II started being sold in 1977 and after a year of being sold, made
a huge amount of money, $2.7 million.
Apple Inc. made history in earning money because they made $200 million
dollars in a 3 year period. In 1983, Steve Jobs released Lisa, a computer that
required owners to have some experience with computers.
Lisa did not sell very well, due to the fact that other personal computers
from other competitors, were selling at a lower price.
Apples biggest competitor wasInternational Business Machines.

Steve Jobs resigned in 1985, due to the failure of the Macintosh.

The Macintosh was a computer that had icons, (today, some icons are
photo booth and iMovie), and an arrow on thenscreen, called a mouse.
Apple I
Apple 2
Steve leaves Apple
 Steve leaves Apple
Steve could not deal with the market failure of his baby.

He continued to behave as if he had saved Apple, treating non-Mac

employees with deference in Cupertino.
People felt he spoiled the Mac team, buying them a BMW motorcycle and a
Bosendorfer grand piano with his personal money, while the company was
still alive thanks only to Apple II sales (the truth was that Macintosh
engineers were paid the same or even less than their counterparts).
There was increasing resentment building up against Steve Jobs at Apple.
The honeymoon with CEO John Sculley was over: the two men increasingly
criticized one another in their inner circles.
Even Woz, who felt insulted by the treatment the Apple II team received,
left the company in February 1985.
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He openly criticized the management in Cupertino: this was a PR disaster
for the firm.
In April 1985, the board discussed re-organization plans for the company.

Everyone agreed there should be a new manager for the Mac team, namely
Apple France executive Jean-Louis Gasse.
Jobs even accepted the idea for a while, thinking of running a new R&D
department instead.
But he was outraged when Gasse asked for a written guarantee of his
promotion.
To him, it became a personal war with Sculley. While the CEO was away on
a business trip, on May 23 1985, Steve gathered some of his top aides, telling
them Sculley wanted him out of his own company.
The next day, Sculley heard of the scheme and canceled his trip.
 Trip to
India

When Steve came back, he resumed his job at

Atari.
One of his pastimes back then included primal
scream therapy sessions at the Los Altos Zen
Center, where he befriended Governor Jerry Brown
 He also spent several weeks with his girlfriend Chris-Ann and Dan
Kottke in a hippie commune in Oregon, the All-One Farm.
Here they would cultivate apples and for some time, Steve would eat only
that when he wasnt fasting, that is.
NeXT
 NeXT
Steve said he wanted to leave Apple to work on a more advanced
computer, and he would take the best engineers from the Mac team and start
a
new company
Apples called
response NeXT.
to this was threatening to sue him.
With that in mind, Steve Jobs just left. Later in 1988, the NeXT computer
was introduced at a big event held in San Francisco, and the company
wanted the NeXT computer to end up in schools.
But unfortunately, the computer did not sell well because of its black and
white screen, and ability not to hook up to other computers.
Since Steve Jobs was such a perfectionist, the release date kept being
delayed.
The operating system of the computer, was called NeXTSTEP.

Sales were so bad, that they started selling the computer to businesses.
 Pixar
Steve went to Pixar. At the time, Pixar was
making hardware and software.
But Steve decided to close the hardware
business because it was not making enough
money.
Pixar focused on their software that created 3D animation.
It was called RenderMan.
Pixar soon started making animated commercials.
These commercials were able to keep the business going.

Pixar even signed a contract with Disney but Disney ended up canceling
the contract to make the movie that would become Toy Story.
With the canceled contract and a failing company, Steve Jobs was at the
lowest point of his career.
Return to Apple Inc.
 Return to Apple Inc.
The movie script for Toy Story was rewritten and Disney liked it.
Steve Jobs realized the potential of the movie and Pixar's association with
Disney.
In 1995, Steve decided to take Pixar public.
The movie was a huge success.
Toy Story was the first computer-generated animated movie.
Steve owned 80% of Pixar and he made $1.5 million from Pixar's stock
success.
However, in 1995, Apple was having its worst year ever.
Steve had been away from Apple for almost 10 years and the CEO of Apple,
Gil Amelio, decided to purchase NeXTSTEP and use its operating system to
replace
Steve the
wasMac
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at Apple.
 Return to Apple Inc.
His title was called "informal adviser to the CEO." In 1997, Apple lost $700
million in sales and the Apple Board of Directors decided to fire Gil Amelio
and replace him with Steve Jobs as the CEO.
Steve reoragnized Apple and in 1998 Apple released the iMac. The iMac
was very successful.
After the iMac, Apple released several successful desktop and laptop
computers.
In 2001, Apple released what would become its most successful product. It
was the iPod.
iTunes was also released at in 2001 which would revolutionize the music
industry.
Apple relased other success products, the iPod Mini, iPod Shuffle, the iPod
nano and the iPod Touch.
Steve as suprised may people as he strats appearing on stage with amzing
products, as of 2009.
The most impressive item is the iPad.The ipad would soonly amke PC
computers nothing campared to the ipad which is just like a computer, but
Logo
 Logo
Apple Inc's first logo was drawn by Ronald Wayne,(co-founder of Apple ,but
later gave up his spot in the company for $2,300).
His logo was of Sir Isaac Newton, sitting under an apple tree.

But no sooner was his logo published, when it was replaced by a rainbow
colored apple, created by Rob Janoff, a graphic designer.
The rainbow colored logo has a piece of the apple bitten out.

The reason for this, is so the apple is not mistaken for a cherry.

Steve Jobs was all for this logo.

The rainbow theme was used from 1976-1998. In 1998, Apple Inc. decided
to change the apple to a black and white theme.
 Logo
They did this at the same time they introduced their new product, the
iMac.
But they switched to an aqua theme from 2001-2003.
But yet again, Apple Inc. changed it to a glass theme.
he glass theme has been the apple theme ever since.
The apple was dedicated to Alan Turing, (an English mathematician,
logician, crytanalyst, and computer scientist), because the bitten part of the
apple represented his method of success.
The crazy ones
 Diagnosed with
Steve found out Cancer
he had a rare form of pancreatic cancer in October, 2003,
when doctors were just doing a routine scan and found the tumor/cancer.
Steve kept his cancer a secret, while he searched for a cure.
When his family and people who worked at Apple, that were close to him,
thought they should tell media, Steve's lawyer said they were not allowed to
tell.
But Steve eventually underwent surgery to remove a tumor.
The surgery to remove the tumor from his pancreas was called
pancreaticoduodenectomy.
He sent an e-mail out to the employees of Apple Inc. saying, "This
weekend I underwent a successful surgery to remove a cancerous tumor
from my a
I have pancreas.
very rare form of pancreatic cancer called an islet cell
neuroendocrine tumor, which represents about 1 percent of the total cases of
pancreatic cancer diagnosed each year, and can be cured by surgical
 Liver Transplant

Before cancere After cancer

 Liver Transplant
It is official that Steve Jobs got a liver transplant in April, 2009.

Any worker at Apple will not say more, other than the fact that he will be
returning in June.
But it is said that he did this operation in 2 liver transplant centers located
in Memphis, Tennessee.
These 2 centers were (1.)Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center, located in
Memphis and (2.)Methodist University Hospital, located in yet again,
Memphis.
Officials have agreed that if Steve Jobs did have an organ transplant, he
would be one of the first on the waiting list because in his case, it is urgent.
The rare/dangerous form of pancreatic cancer is in his organ.

So it is urgent that he trades that organ for a new one. This way he will be
safer from the cancer.
 Inventions by Steve Jobs
One of the greatest inventors of the last century On October 5, 2011
Steve Jobs died, and with this epitaph the worldwide media said
goodbye. Three years after his death, we look back on the inventor
side of his legacy, as contentious and controversial as the rest of his
personality.

His name appears as the author of 346 patents in the US registry, but
his actual role in all these innovations has been challenged, as he
really had no skills as a designer or engineer. In fact, his official
biographer, Walter Isaacson, describes him as a tweaker: someone
who, rather than invent, was devoted to tweaking and refining
already-invented devices and technologies in order to simplify their
use.
 A great leap in the career of Steve Jobs
Macintosh was the introduction of the original
Macintosh (1984), the first consumer
computer with a graphical user
interface. In other words, it had an
operating system with windows and
icons, and a mouse to move between
them. This idea did not originate with
Steve Jobs. Its well known how he was
inspired during a visit to the Xerox
research centre, where all these ideas
had already been developed. But Jobs
managed to pack them all into a
revolutionary computer, adding a few
touches of his own
y on One of the major innovations of the
screen: original Macintosh was that it
showed on the screen the font
chosen for the text. Until then, what
was drawn on computer screens was
just like on a typewriter. It was on
the insistence of Steve Jobs that the
first Mac had the ability to display
different fonts. As he explained in his
famous speech at Stanford
University, this effort was due to a
fleeting period in college when he
was bored and decided to take a
course in calligraphy.
iMac (1998)
iPod (2001)
iPod (2001)
 iMac , iPod,iPad
These three devices fall into the same category. With them, the
Californian tweaker proposed reinventing three devices that
seemed to him to be stagnant and/or useless the personal
computer, the MP3 player and the tablet PC. In all three cases
his strategy was the same. He led teams of talented designers
and software engineers and had them invent more and more
prototypes. Then he eliminated the vast majority until he was
left with one that did not upset him and, from that prototype,
he had them start over, once again refining, looking for
simplicity and beauty.

 This same Job's method was the key to developing

iPhone the iPhone, perhaps the technological work that

definitively exalted the president of Apple in 2007. Rather
than reinventing the smartphone , the iPhone integrated
functions of other mobile devices such as MP3 players,
GPS navigators or even cameras, almost sweeping the
market. The key to integrating all these capabilities into a
single terminal was reinventing the operating system,
again putting together pieces that already existed: icons,
touchscreens and gesture control (like using two fingers to
enlarge or reduce a picture on the iPhone, or swiping the
screen to unlock the phone).After the announcement of
the iPhone in January 2007, the competitors of Apple
began working on this same product line, and from there
arose the disagreements of Jobs with executives from
Google and Samsung. The great tweaker disliked that
others were inspired by his creations. Thus he started a
patent war in which he won a great battle posthumously:
in October 2013, Apple won a patent that gathers
together, in 364 pages, many details of the original
iPhone. Apple had just passed two years from the death of
its technological father, and that macro-patent became
known as the Steve Jobs Patent.
 Apple's History with
"i"
Starting product names with the prefix"i" has been a common naming element for
Apple since the late 1990s. The first"i' device that Apple released was the original
iMac in 1998. Other examples of this include the iBook laptop and the iMovie and
iTunes programs. While some of those products live on, Apple has largely dropped
the "i" prefix from its productsthe Macbook replaced the iBook, and Photos
replaced iPhotothough it lives on in the iPhone, iMac, and iPad, among others . As
to where that original "i" in iMac came from, there are different theories . Some say
that the "i" stands for the first initial of the last name of Apple's Chief Design Officer
Jonathan Ive . The truth, though, is that the "i" stood for "Internet , "according to
Ken Segall, who led the team that came up with the name . When the first iMac was
introduced, the Internet was still a relatively new thing and not used by nearly as
many people as it is today . The way you got on the Internet was somewhat
mysterious to some people, so may products tried to stress that not only could they
help you get on the Internet, they would make it easy. All that was wrapped up in
the name and the marketing for the original line of iMacs. After the iMac was a hit,
the "i" prefix son began popping up on other consumer-focused products from
Apple. By the iPod's debut in 2001, the company had released the iMac, iTunes,
iMovie, and the iBook. Clearly, "i was embedded in Apple's branding.
Death
 Steve Jobs died in his Palo Alto home in California around three p.m. on October 05, 2011.The official
cause of death was complications from pancreatic cancer that resulted in a respiratory arrest. He died
surrounded by his family. By Mona Simpsons account, Jobs woke up from a coma and looked up at his
sister Parry, then at his children, then at his wife, Laurene and over their shoulders past them. Before he
departed , Jobs delivered his final words:OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.Some compare these words to
those of Thomas Edison Who emerged from a coma and before passing away he said:It is very beautiful
over there.Apple, Pixar, Microsoft, and all Disney properties flew their flags at half-staff that day to pay
their respects. The Apple website displayed an image of Jobs in black and white next to his name and
lifespan for two weeks following his death. Apple had arranged a private memorial service for employees
on October 19, 2011, with some of the attendees being Tim Cook, Bill Campbell, Norah Jones, Al Gore,
Coldplay, and Jobss widow Laurene Jobs. The governor of California declared Sunday, October 16, 2011,
to be Steve Jobs Day and on that day there was a closed memorial held at Stanford University, with
each attendee receiving a box containing Autobiography of a Yogi By Paramahansa Yogananda as a
farewell gift from Jobs. Steve Wozniak, George Lucas, Bill Gates, and President Barack Obama all offered
statements in the light of his departure. Jobs rests in an unmarked grave at Alta Mesa Memorial Park, a
non-denominational cemetery in Palo Alto in respect to his spiritual views.

Steve Jobs was the man who re-invented the computer world. He managed to take many ground-breaking
ideas and implement them into the reality. Steve Jobs life story was exciting, while at the same time it
could not be called an easy one. He faced many obstacles on his life path, but he tackled them with the
pride and innovative thinking. We hope you have enjoyed exploring Steve Jobs biography and his success
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