STEVE JOBS

1955-2011
By
Walker Sorrell
11/10/11
 Early Life
 Steve Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955,
to Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali
“john” two university Wisconsin graduate
students they put him up for adoption. Shortly
after his biological parents got married and had
another child Mona Simpson. After being
placed up for adoption he was adopted by
Clara and Steve Jobs. Clara was an accountant
and Steve was a coast guard veteran.
 http://www.biography.com/people/steve-job
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 Timeline pt 1

1955: Stephen Paul Jobs is born on Feb. 24.
 1976: Apple Computer is formed on April Fools' Day, shortly after
Wozniak and Jobs create a new computer circuit board in a Silicon
Valley garage. The Apple I computer goes on sale by the summer
for $666.66.
 1977: Apple is incorporated by its founders and a group of
venture capitalists. It unveils Apple II, the first personal computer
to generate color graphics. Sales soar to the rate of $1 million a
year.
 1980: Apple goes public, raising $110 million in one of the biggest
initial public offerings to date.
 1985: Jobs and Sculley clash, leading to Jobs' resignation. Wozniak
also resigns from Apple.
 Timeline pt 2
 1986: Jobs founds Next Inc., a new computer company making
high-end machines for universities. He also buys Pixar from "Star
Wars" creator George Lucas for $10 million.
 1994: Apple introduces Power Macintosh computers based on the
PowerPC chip it developed with IBM and Motorola. Apple
decides to license its operating software, allowing other
companies to clone the Mac.
 1996: Apple buys Next for $430 million, for the operating system
Jobs' team developed. Gil Amelio replaces Spindler as CEO.
 1997: Steve Jobs returns to Apple as an adviser, then "de facto
head" of company; Amelio is pushed out. Jobs puts an end to Mac
clones.
 2000: Jobs is named CEO of Apple.
 Timeline pt 3
 2003: Apple launches the iTunes music store with 200,000 songs at
99 cents each, giving people a convenient way to buy music
legally online. It sells 1 million songs in the first week.
 Aug. 24, 2011: Apple announces that Jobs is resigning as CEO.
Cook takes the CEO title, and Apple names Jobs chairman.
 Oct. 5, 2011: Jobs dies at 56. Apple announces his death without
giving a specific cause.
 Contributions
 Jobs's contribution? More than anyone else, he brought digital
technology to the masses. As a visionary, he saw that computers
could be much more than drab productivity tools. Instead, they
could help unleash human creativity and sheer enjoyment. A
marketing genius
 Steve Jobs was more than just a computer designer he was a true
visionary ever since he and Steve Wozniak started apple they
have been putting out the best of computers
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APPLE Apple
 Apple 1
 Priced at $666.66, Apple's first computer was little
more than a circuit board. Once you bought one, you
still had to hook up your own keyboard, monitor and
power supply. As such, the Apple appealed mostly to
the DIY hardware hackers of the day
 Macintosh
 The Macintosh arrived in 1984, and it was the first
computer to successfully integrate two things that are
now commonplace: a graphical user interface and a
mouse. Little pictures of folders, the piece of paper
denoting a file, the trash can.
 NeXT Boxes
 Though it was pricey, it was fast and especially adept
at math functions, and it had a built-in Ethernet port in
an age when most computers still needed a network
interface card. Because of these high-end features,
NeXT boxes were ignored by the mass market, but
quickly snatched up by academics and programmers.
 iMac
 After NeXT failed to gain traction, Jobs sold the
company to Apple and came back into the fold in 1996.
Two years later, the company released a complete
rewrite of the desktop PC — the candy-colored iMac. It
kicked the boring beige PC box to the curb.
 Graph
Retail music player sales in 2007
 iTunes
 Because it was directly plugged into the iPods
everyone already owned, the iTunes Store was a huge
hit. With it came the era of the digital single, easily
downloadable for $0.99 and offering instant
satisfaction. Apple was selling 5 million songs a day.