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Early Childhood
Born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955 to Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah John Jandali A week after he was born, he was put up for adoption by his mother. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California They gave him the name Steven Paul Jobs
Steve Jobs was the founder and inspiration for the Apple Inc., but he was slowly pushed out for aggressive and underhanded tactics Employees said he had a temper, and was usually stubborn Jobs protested and resigned, even though he stayed the chairmen for some time. He was so upset, he sold all but one of his Apple shares During this time, Jobs bought what became Pixar from Lucasfilm for $5 million He also started the computer company NeXT Computer Though it never went very mainstream, due to high costs, it was responsible for many important innovations, including NeXTMail, Jobs email program that supported embedded graphics and sounds and the original World Wide Web system
Founder & Visionary of Apple. Launched Apple Machintosh & Mac OS-first GUI. Launch of ipod, iphone and ipad-brought the computer on our palm. Founder of Pixar- revolution in animation entertainment industry. Founder of NeXT- Hardware & Software company, Innovated web objects- currently used by all internet explorers.
Apple Inc.
Apple was established on April 1, 1976 bySteve Jobs,Steve Wozniak, andRonald Wayne, to sell theApple Ipersonal computer kit. Company was made to make..
Apple, over the years, has established a unique reputation in the consumer electronics industry and has been named Fortune magazines most admired company in the United States in 2008, and in the world in 2008, 2009, and 2010.
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Present apple logo The idea fell from a tree, literally. Steve Jobs had returned from visiting a communelike place in Oregon located in an apple orchard. Apple co-founder and Jobs pal, Steve Wozniak, picked him up from the airport. On the drive home, Jobs simply said, I came up with a name for our companyApple. Wozniak said they could have tried to come up with more technical sounding names but their vision was to make computers approachable. Apple fit perfectly.
Apple I released in 1976. Apple II released in 1977. Apple III released in 1980.
In October 2001, Apple introduced first iPod portable digital audio player.
First announced on January 9, 2007, introduced the first version of the iPhone
NeXT
NeXT was founded in 1985 by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs after he resigned from Apple. NeXT introduced the first NeXT Computer in 1988, and the smaller NeXT station in 1990. Apple purchased NeXT on December 20, 1996 for $429 million and 1.5 million shares of Apple stock. A new computer company based on an object oriented software platform, NeXT failed first as a hardware company, then as a software company due to its high costs.
NeXT
WebObjects was created by NeXT Software, Inc., first publicly demonstrated at the Object World conference in 1995 and released to the public in March 1996. WebObjects is a Java web application server from Apple Inc., and a web application framework that runs on the server. Its hallmark features are its object-orientation, database connectivity, and prototyping tools. Applications created with WebObjects can be deployed as web sites, Java Web- start desktop applications, and/or standards-based web services.
Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the Computer Division ofLucas filmbefore it was acquired byAppleco-founderSteve Jobsin 1986. In 1991 after years of unprofitability Pixar Image Computer contracted with Disney to produce a number of computeranimated feature films that Disney would co-finance and distribute. On January 24, 2006, Disney agreed to purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. Jobs became The Walt Disney Company's largest single shareholder with approximately seven percent of the company's stock and joined the company's board of directors upon completion of the merger.
Apple III (1981) - Unreliable hardware. Lisa (1983) - First commercially produced computer with a GUI but quickly fell into the shadow of the cheaper Macintosh, launched a year later. NeXT Computer (1989) - Too expensive to catch on with mainstream users. Puck Mouse (1998) - Hard to use. The Cube (2000) - Won design awards but was a flop in stores because of its high price. iTunes phone (2005) - Complicated to set up and use. Apple TV (2007) - Could only hold 100 songs, and transferring them from the computer was a slow process.
Yes, you can make a difference You need a vision Focus, focus, focus Its not about the money It aint over till its over Give people what they really want Destroy your own products before someone else does Your time is precious dont waste it
Remembering that Ill be dead soon is the most important tool Ive ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important
Apples pipeline of goodies from Macbooks to iPhones to iPads are still the envy of the industry. Tim Cook, the next Apple CEO, has a tough job ahead as the company might face some initial hiccups. What will come after the iPad is anyones guess.
He changed the way each of us sees the world. There may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. - Barack Obama, US President
Steve, the world will miss you for all the innovations