Steve Jobs

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Birth and Adoption

Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California A week after birth he was put up for adoption He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs who gave him the name of Steven Paul Jobs.

Childhood and Teenage years

Since he was a boy, his skills became so apparent that he was allowed to skip 5th grade and go straight to middle school. At Homestead High, he attended his first electronics class. Fernandez happened to know an electronics whiz whose name was Steve Wozniak.
14-year old Steven Paul Jobs

Friendship between the 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&T s international calls for free, until it started to become too illegal to be safe.

Steve Jobs (left) and Wozniak (right) with a blue box

College and his 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 wasn t before 1974 that he got his first job at a young video game company called Atari.

The Birth of Apple Computer

At that time, Steve Wozniak was working in the design of what would be considered as the first PCs. Steve s own interest in computer design was limited, but he understood that his friend s current project was an amazing feat of engineering. 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 hadn t found anything better and because it was Steve s favorite food.
Apple s first logo

The 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 The first personal computer Jobs and Wozniak introduced was called the Apple I. The Apple I sold for $666.66

The 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.

Apple became the company of personal computers.

The Macintosh Project

Steve, who owned $7.5 million of Apple stocks, was worth $217.5 million by the end of the day. However, Steve wanted to be involved in the development of Apple s future products. By early 1981, Steve took over the Macintosh project. 1984 saw the introduction of the Macintosh, the first commercially successful computer with a graphical user interface.

Departure from Apple

The first figures of Mac sales looked very promising. It all came to an end on Tuesday, May 28, 1985. Despite his attempts to convince board members, every single board member voted his removal. This was the beginning of one of the darkest period in Steve s life. He didn t know what would become of him.

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. In January 1992, Steve decided to react to the Cube s miserable sales by licensing its operating system, but it failed too.

The Return to Apple

During Steve s absence, Bill Gates used his privileged relationship with Apple to steal some of its latest technology and develop a GUI of its own, Windows; and soon became the most popular OS. Apple s marketshare fell down to around 4%, making it an almost small player in the market it had created. They decided to purchase NeXT on December 20, 1996, bringing Jobs back to the company he founded. On August 6, 1997, at MacWorld Expo, an announcement was made: Apple was going to partner with its archrival, Microsoft.

New Beginnings
Steve took many measures in order to bring Apple back to its glory and cut the number of projects from 350 to a dozen. 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. That design was also used on the iBook with the same success. More importantly, it is in January 2000 that Steve showed the first glimpses of Apple s next generation operating system, Mac OS X.

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 .

Personal Life
Jobs married Laurene Powell on March 18, 1991 and has had three children with her. He also had a daughter named Lisa Brennan-Jobs with Chris Brennan, whom he did not marry. One of the most difficult episode of Steve s 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.

Steve talking about his personal experience with death

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