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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 attendcollege
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Skipped 5th grade
Took his first electronicsclass in high school
After school, attended lectures at the
Hewlett-Packard company where he metSteve Wonzniak during work
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Graduated high school in 1972
Enrolled in Reed College in Oregon
Dropped out after one semester
Slept on his friends dorm room floor anddropped in on classes of interest
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Returned to California in 1974 and was hired as
a technician for Atari
Attended meetings atWozniaks Homebrew
Computer Club
Steve convinced Wozniak to work with him in
building computers
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Born on April 1st, 1976
Apple I designed and prototype built
First single board computer with built-in
video interface
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Apple II designed in the following year
Operating System loaded automatically
Smaller Components & built-incircuitry
In 1976, Jobs looked to hire apublic relations agency to helpadvertise
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Most investors turned Apple down
Retired Intel executiveM
ikeM
arkkuladecided to invest
Markkula became chairman
of Apple inMay 1977
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Became publicly tradedcompany in 1980
Launched LISA in 1983
First commercialcomputer to use GUI
Unpopular due to its fewsoftware programs and highprice
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Macintosh created to compete with PC
Marketed for friendliness, not just amindless machine
Very popular sold approximately
70,000Macs in the first 100 days
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jobs had to make drastic decisions
Microsoft purchased NeXT software
Microsoft came up with $150 million tostake in Apple
Saved a dying company.
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Jobs management style had drastically
changed
Relaxed and was open to suggestions
Employees commented that Jobs made
experimenting with electronics fun
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Jobs began looking into alternatives to
Object Linking and Embedding
Created OpenDoc
Jobs was very serious about this
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NeXT STEP software was being turned
intoMac OS X
Under Jobs guidance the company
increased sales
Introduced the iMac and other newproducts
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Jobs held the title of ICEO
Very influential impact on the Applecompany
By the year 2000, he created even greater
advances in new technology
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In early 2000, Pixar leads animated film
industry
Later that month,
Jobs announced his
return to the CEO
position
Insisted on keeping his $1 annual salary
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Although his salary was low, the company
granted him ten million shares of Apple
stock worth hundreds of millions
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First project as CEO was the G4 Cube
Was too expensive
and didnt satisfy acertain market
Lasted only twelvemonths in Apples line-up
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The next step for Steve was his newest
operating system,Mac OS X
The future of Apple
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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.
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In 2001, Jobs opened Apple retail stores
so customers could:1. Try out computers
2. Test software
3. Meet with salespeople
x This was a large risk but he knew that people
would want to buy them
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Less than a year after iTunes was released,Apple released the iPod
Originally only forMac users
In July 2002, the new iPod wasavailable for Windows users as
well
Sales skyrocketed and 75% ofMP3 players areiPods
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In eight weeks, five million songs were
sold on iTunes
Took over 80% of the legal music
downloading market
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June 6th, 2005, Jobs announced
switch from PowerPC chips to Intel
chips.
This would conserve
energy on PowerBookand iBook
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October 2005, 5th generation of iPod was
introduced
Could play musicvideos and TV shows
Jobs announced the
opening of the iTunesvideo store
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Pixar was Jobs second company
Swept the box office withits animated films
On January 24th, 2006, Disney
bought out Pixar for $7.4 billion
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Despite a recent scare with pancreaticcancer, Jobs is back in health and doing
just fine
Jobs is an influential man who learnedfromhis failures and gainedmaturity from them
True role model