All about Steve jobs
Steve Jobs (1955-2011):
Steve Jobs was an adopted child of Paul and Clara Jobs and was born on 24th Feb 1955. He was brought up with one sister, Patty. Paul Jobs was a machinist and also fixed cars as hobby Steve was very much impressed with his father as he always works with his hands.
In the year 1961, the family shifted to Mountain View California which was known as center of electronics.He always prefered to do his work from his own. Steve was much interested in electronics and also spent his hours and hours in working at garage of Hewlett Packard who was an electronic producer. Jobs have enrolled himself in the Hewlett Packard Explorer Club. He was quite interested in working with computers. Steve also attended high school lectures at Hewlett Packard and after getting impressed from his performance he was offered summer internship with the company..
Apple Era:
Jobs has then recognized that there is the huge gap in the computer market. At those earlier times almost all the computers were working on Mainframes. Those Mainframes systems were very large that it can easily fill one room and very costly which cannot be afforded by common man. When Steve and Wozniak seen all these they decieded to redesigned their computer with an objective to sell the system to common individual. In 1977, when Apple II was introduced in market it had an shown an immense sale of $2.7 milliion from which company has grown up $200 million dollar in 3 years.
The Macintosh:
It was 1984, when a revolutionary product was founded by Apple called as Macintosh. For using this computer, a new device was also introduced which was called as Mouse which has made Macintosh very easy to use.. Some of the special charecterestics as other personal charecterestics like working with high quality printers.
NeXT:
As Macintosh failed to impress the computer users, Jobs then decieded to hire some new candidates to work with him to begin his new computer industry NeXT. In 1998, the NeXT computer has introduced at large Gala event at San Francisco which aimed at educational market. NeXT was made with the aim to keep it quite user friendly with great graphics, fast processing speed with outstanding music quality.
Recent Innovations:
Apple has then announced the revolutionary products like Macbook Air, iPod, and iPhone which have dictated the modern technology evolution. In the year 2007, Apple has declared its statistics which was quite impressive and was record breaking $199.99. iTunes was then released in 2008 which was a super hit in America market next to Wal-Mart. Half of the revenue was earned by iTunes and iPod sale with 200 million iPod sold for worth 200 million and 6 billion songs downloaded. For all such achievements Apple had been the ruling in United States and was also one of the most looked up companies, along with this has also been listed in Fortune 500 organizations for the return of shareholders.
Death of Legend:
Steve on Oct 5th 2011; he was suffering from incurable pancreas cancer.
Honors and Public Recognition:
Steve Jobs: Position as Co- Founder at Apple
Steve Jobs: Founder of NeXT
Steve Jobs: Founder of Pixar
Lastly, Steve was also cited amongst one of the Time’s Magazine top 25 most influential people on Web in 2008.
In August 2009, Steve was also selected as one of the most admired entrepreneur among teenagers in a survey by Junior Achievement.
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