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The Life of Steve Jobs

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Young Steven Jobs Born on February 24th, 1955 in San

Francisco, California

Put up for adoption a week after birth

Adoption was finalized under the condition that Steven would attend college

Education

Skipped 5th grade

Took his first electronics class in high school

After school, attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard company where he met Steve Wonzniak during work

Education

Graduated high school in 1972

Enrolled in Reed College in Oregon

Dropped out after one semester

Slept on his friends dorm room floor and dropped in on classes of interest

The Beginning of A Career Returned to California in 1974 and was

hired as a technician for Atari

Attended meetings at Wozniak’s “Homebrew Computer Club”

Steve convinced Wozniak to work with him in building computers

Apple

Born on April 1st, 1976

Apple I designed and prototype built

First single board computer with built-in video interface

Apple

Apple II designed in the following year

Operating System loaded automatically

Smaller Components & built-in circuitry

In 1976, Jobs looked to hire a public relations agency to help advertise

Smooth Sailing

Most investors turned Apple down

Retired Intel executive Mike Markkula decided to invest

Markkula became chairman of Apple in May 1977

Smooth Sailing Became publicly traded company in 1980

Launched LISA in 1983

First commercial computer to use GUI

Unpopular due to its few software programs and high price

Smooth Sailing Macintosh created to compete with PC

Marketed for friendliness, not just a mindless machine

Very popular – sold approximately 70,000 Macs in the first 100 days

The Downfall

Sales began to plunge

Wozniak quit Apple in 1985

Board members of Apple met on May 28th, 1985 and each voted on the removal of Steve from the company

Still Looking Up

After taking time off, Jobs wanted to get back to Apple and his love for computers

Decided to start his own company

Founded NeXT Computer in 1989

Still Looking Up

NeXT turned a profit for the first time in 1992

NeXT software needed to be made more reliable and compatible for consumers

Company slowly starts going downhill

Still Looking Up

Jobs was criticized for wasting money that belonged to the company in 1993

Closed a NeXT factory in that February

Laid off half of the employees and stopped making computers

Still Looking Up

Jobs had to make drastic decisions

Microsoft purchased NeXT software

Microsoft came up with $150 million to stake in Apple

Saved a dying company.

The New Beginning

First project as CEO was the G4 Cube

Was too expensive and didn’t satisfy a certain market

Lasted only twelve months in Apple’s line-up

The New Beginning The next step for Steve was his newest

operating system, Mac OS X

The future of Apple

The New Beginning Apple wanted software to sync up digital

devices

Was turned down by most companies

Jobs took matters into his own hands and created iLife suite.

The New Beginning

In 2001, Jobs opened Apple retail stores so customers could:

1. Try out computers2. Test software3. Meet with salespeople

This was a large risk but he knew that people would want to buy them

Portable Audio Revolution

Less than a year after iTunes was released, Apple released the iPod

Originally only for Mac users

In July 2002, the new iPod was available for Windows users as well

Sales skyrocketed and 75% of MP3 players are iPods

Portable Audio Revolution

In eight weeks, five million songs were sold on iTunes

Took over 80% of the legal music downloading market

More Successful Changes

June 6th, 2005, Jobs announced switch from PowerPC chips to Intel chips.

This would conserve energy on PowerBook and iBook

More Successful Changes October 2005, 5th generation of iPod was

introduced

Could play music videos and TV shows

Jobs announced the opening of the iTunes video store

Pixar

Pixar was Jobs’ second company

Swept the box office with its animated films

On January 24th, 2006, Disney bought out Pixar for $7.4 billion

Conclusion

Despite a recent scare with pancreatic cancer, Jobs is back in health and doing just fine

Jobs is an influential man who learned from his failures and gained maturity from them

True role model

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