Steeve Jobs (February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011), cofounder of Apple Computer, Inc, and a pioneer of the personal computer era
Biography
Early childhood
Steeve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francicso, California, US and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.He attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out that same year, and traveled through India in 1974 seeking enlightenment and studying Zen Buddhism.
Steeve Jobs at the age of 22(1977)
Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. Together the duo gained fame and wealth a year later with the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers. Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto in 1979, which was mouse-driven and had a graphical user interface (GUI). This led to the development of the unsuccessful Apple Lisa in 1983, followed by the breakthrough Macintosh in 1984, the first mass-produced computer with a GUI.
The foundation of Apple
Getting fired from Apple
Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985 after a long power struggle with the company's board and its then-CEO John Sculley. That same year, Jobs took a few of Apple's members with him to found NeXT, a computer platform development company that specialized in computers for higher-education and business markets. In addition, he helped to develop the visual effects industry when he funded the computer graphics division of George Lucas's Lucasfilm in 1986. The new company was Pixar, which produced the first 3D computer animated feature film Toy Story (1995).
Steeve Jobs shows off his company's new NeXTstation after an introduction to the public in San Francisco (1990)
Famous logo 'Think different' (1997)
Apple acquired NeXT in 1997, and Jobs became CEO of his former company within a few months. He was largely responsible for helping revive Apple, which had been on the verge of bankruptcy. He worked closely with designer Jony Ive to develop a line of products that had larger cultural ramifications, beginning in 1997 with the "Think different" advertising campaign and leading to the iMac, iTunes, iTunes Store, Apple Store, iPod, iPhone, App Store, and the iPad. In 2001, the original Mac OS was replaced with a completely new Mac OS X (now known as macOS), based on NeXT's NeXTSTEP platform, giving the OS a modern Unix-based foundation for the first time.
Apple...again
Illnese
Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003.
- January 24, 1984 Macintosh 128K - the first member of the Macintosh family of personal computers.
- August 15, 1998 - iMac G3 (1st gen iMac)
- October 23, 2001 - iPad (1st gen)
- April 24, 2006 - MacBook Pro (1st gen)
- June 28, 2006 - MacBook Pro (1st gen)
- June 29, 2007 - iPhone (1st gen)
- April 3, 2010 iPad (1st gen)
Iconic Apple products launched during Job's tenure
Steeve Jobs died of respiratory arrest related to the tumor at age 56 on October 5, 2011. The last iPhone to be designed by Steeve Jobs is iPhone 5 which was released in 2012.
Quotes
“I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.”
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
“Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
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