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Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was born in 1955 in San Francisco and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He showed an early interest in electronics through experimenting in his father's garage. After dropping out of college, Jobs worked at Atari where he met Steve Wozniak. They co-founded Apple Computers in 1976 and launched the successful Apple I and Macintosh from Jobs' parents' garage. Despite successes, Jobs resigned from Apple in 1985 due to internal conflicts. He went on to found NeXT and Pixar, then returned to Apple in 1996 and launched revolutionary products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad that changed the technology industry. Jobs was a visionary leader but also had a temperamental management style.

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Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was born in 1955 in San Francisco and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He showed an early interest in electronics through experimenting in his father's garage. After dropping out of college, Jobs worked at Atari where he met Steve Wozniak. They co-founded Apple Computers in 1976 and launched the successful Apple I and Macintosh from Jobs' parents' garage. Despite successes, Jobs resigned from Apple in 1985 due to internal conflicts. He went on to found NeXT and Pixar, then returned to Apple in 1996 and launched revolutionary products like the iPod, iPhone and iPad that changed the technology industry. Jobs was a visionary leader but also had a temperamental management style.

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Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, 1955, to two university students Joanne
Schieble and Syrian-born John Jandali. They were both unmarried at the time,
and Steven was given up for adoption.
Steven was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, whom he always considered to be his
real parents. Steven’s father, Paul, encouraged him to experiment with
electronics in their garage. This led to a lifelong interest in electronics and design.
Jobs attended a local school in California and later enrolled at Reed College,
Portland, Oregon. His education was characterised by excellent test results and
potential. But, he struggled with formal education and his teachers reported he
was a handful to teach.
Job’s first real computer job came working for Atari computers. During his time
at Atari, Jobs came to know Steve Wozniak well. Jobs greatly admired this
computer technician, whom he had first met in 1971.
In 1976, Wozniak invented the first Apple I computer. Jobs, Wozniak and Ronald
Wayne then set up Apple computers. In the very beginning, Apple computers
were sold from Jobs parents’ garage.
Over the next few years, Apple computers expanded rapidly as the market for
home computers began to become increasingly significant.
In 1984, Jobs designed the first Macintosh. It was the first commercially
successful home computer to use a graphical user interface (based on Xerox
Parc’s mouse driver interface.) This was an important milestone in home
computing and the principle has become key in later home computers.
Despite the many innovative successes of Jobs at Apple, there was increased
friction between Jobs and other workers at Apple. In 1985, removed from his
managerial duties, Jobs resigned and left Apple. He later looked back on this
incident and said that getting fired from Apple was one of the best things that
happened to him – it helped him regain a sense of innovation and freedom, he
couldn’t find work in a large company.
On leaving Apple, Jobs founded NeXT computers. This was never particularly
successful, failing to gain mass sales. However, in the 1990s, NeXT software was
used as a framework in WebObjects used in Apple Store and iTunes store. In
1996, Apple bought NeXT for $429 million.
Much more successful was Job’s foray into Pixar – a computer graphic film
production company. Disney contracted Pixar to create films such as Toy Story, A
Bug’s Life and Finding Nemo. These animation movies were highly successful
and profitable – giving Jobs respect and success.
Jobs launched Apple in a new direction. With a certain degree of ruthlessness,
some projects were summarily ended. Instead, Jobs promoted the development
of a new wave of products which focused on accessibility, appealing design and
innovate features.
The iPod was a revolutionary product in that it built on existing portable music
devices and set the standard for portable digital music. In 2008, iTunes became
the second biggest music retailer in the US, with over six billion song downloads
and over 200 million iPods sold.
In 2007, Apple successfully entered the mobile phone market, with the iPhone.
This used features of the iPod to offer a multi-functional and touchscreen device
to become one of the best-selling electronic products. In 2010, he introduced the
iPad – a revolutionary new style of tablet computers.
Apple has been rated No.1 in America’s most admired companies. Jobs
management has been described as inspirational, although c-workers also state,
Jobs could be a hard taskmaster and was temperamental. NeXT Cofounder Dan’l
Lewin was quoted in Fortune as saying of that period, “The highs were
unbelievable … But the lows were unimaginable.”

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