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Life of steve jobs

Prepared by Fatima Akhtar

Early life
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

Education
His skills became so apparent that he was allowed to skip 5th grade and go straight to middle school. When he became 11 years old he moved to Los Altos that distinguished by its great number of engineers garages. At Homestead High, he attended his first electronics class and befriended Bill Fernande Fernandez happened to know an electronics whiz whose name was Steve Wozniak.

Meeting between two Steves


Although they met in 1969, a real friendship between Steve and Woz started developing a couple of years later, when Woz became a renowned figure in the small world of phone phreaks. They started selling blue boxes that allowed to make AT&Ts international calls for free, until it started to become too illegal to be safe.

College and first job


After Steve finished High School, he attended Reed College in Oregon. His grades were extremely poor. After six months, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out, so I decided to drop out. It wasnt before 1974 that he got his first job at a young video game company called Atari.

Birth of Apple computer


At that time, Steve Wozniak was working in the design of what would be considered as the first PCs. Steves own interest in computer design was limited, but he understood that his friends current project was an amazing feat of engineering.
First Apple logo

Birth of Apple computer


He started to get involved and after a few months, he convinced Woz to found a company to sell his computer. So, on April 1, 1976, Apple was born. The name Apple Computer was chosen because they hadnt found anything better and because it was Steves favorite food
First Apple logo

Apple I
Though their initial plan was to sell just printed circuit boards, Jobs and Wozniak ended up creating a batch of completely assembled computers, and entered the personal computer business. The first PC Jobs and Wozniak introduced called the Apple I sold for $666.66

Apple II
In 1977, Woz started working on the design of the Apple II, which was a real breakthrough due to its color display, sound and expandability. More than two million were sold. At this time, Apple gave up its old logo and adopted its striped applewith-a-bite logo.

The Machintosh Project


Steve, who owned $7.5 million of Apple stocks, was worth $217.5 million by the end of the day. He became one of the richest self-made men in America. By early 1981, Steve took over the Macintosh project to be a PC as easy to use as a toaster. 1984 saw the introduction of the Macintosh, the first commercially successful computer with a graphical user interface.

neXT
After leaving Apple, Jobs founded another computer company, NeXT Computer. Like Apple's Lisa, the NeXT Cube (launched 1990) was technologically advanced, but was never able to break into the mainstream mainly owing to its high cost and compatibility problems.

NeXT
In January 1992, Steve decided to react to the Cubes miserable sales by licensing its operating system, but it failed too. On February 11, 1993, Steve Jobs officially confirmed he had given up and shut down NeXTs efforts in hardware.

New beginning
Steve took many measures in order to bring Apple back to its glory The first one was the Think different campaign. But the best was yet to come: the iMac. It was unveiled on May 6, 1998. Its revolutionary design made it a stunning success.

The iPod Revolution


In the early 21st century, a new age of computing began: that of the digital lifestyle. When the Napster phenomenon erupted in 2000, Steve asked the iTunes team to work on a new project, a portable digital music player. The iPod was introduced to the world on October 23, 2001 and could carry 1,000 songs in your pocket.

More successful change


June 6th, 2005, Jobs announced switch from PowerPC chips to Intel chips. This would conserve energy on PowerBook and iBook

More successful change


October 2005, 5th generation of iPod was introduced Could play music videos and TV shows Jobs announced the opening of the iTunes video store

Personal life
Jobs married Laurene Powell on March 18, 1991 and has had three children with her. One of the most difficult episode of Steves life occurred in the midst of the turnaround of his very busy career. On 2004, he was diagnosed with cancer. His doctors told him that it was incurable. Later, he had a biopsy where the doctors found it was a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.

Accomplishments
Steve is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "Lowest Paid Chief Executive Officer, with a salary of just $1. However, gifts like a $46 million jet and just under 30 million shares of restricted stock make him very well off to say the least Pixar, which Jobs bought in 1986, has been responsible for films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles.

Accomplishments
Relations with Disney were getting tough, though, and Jobs announced that they would find a new partner in 2004. But, when Eisner was replaced by Bob Iger in 2005, he improved relations, and Disney bought Pixar for $7.4 billion. This made Steve Jobs the largest single shareholder of the Walt Disney Company, with 7% of the stock

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 Indeed he was True role model

Who Came, saw and

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I came,I saw, I conquered!

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