Stephen Paul Jobs is an American entrepreneur, known as one of the founders of the Pixar film studio and Apple Corporation. In the late 70s of the last century, Steve Jobs, together with his friend, designed one of the first compact personal computers. Thanks to this man, millions of people around the world use iPhones, iPods, iPacs and Macs.
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Step 1
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955. His father, Syrian Adulfatt Jandali, and mother Joan Schible, born into a family of German immigrants, lived in a civil marriage. Joan gives birth to a son and decides to abandon the child. Her son ended up in the family of an Armenian American woman, Clara Jobs, and her husband, Paul. The boy was named Stephen. Before the adoption, Joan made a commitment from the couple to pay for the child's school and college tuition. Jobs considered Paul and Clara to be his real parents all his life, although he knew the history of their appearance in their family.
Step 2
Steve's father worked as a car mechanic and tried to instill in his son a love for this profession, but the teenager remained cold to the engines. However, Steve enthusiastically studied the basics of electronics and soon, under the guidance of his father, assembled and repaired televisions and radios.
Step 3
Steve made his first money delivering newspapers, and then he, a thirteen-year-old boy, was invited to work on the assembly line at Hewlett-Packard. At the age of 15, Jobs bought his first car, and a year later Steve became interested in the work of The Beatles and Bob Dylan, began to communicate with hippies, smoke marijuana and use LSD.
Step 4
Steve's classmate introduced him to Steven Wozniak. Despite 5 years of age difference, the guys quickly found a common language. Their first joint project was the production of "blue boxes" - digital devices that made it possible to break telephone codes and call anywhere in the world for free. Friends began to sell such boxes to students and neighbors. The business was illegal, and therefore the production of devices had to be curtailed.
Step 5
In 1972, Steve entered Reed College, which was famous for its excellent curriculum, high standards and very free morals. The guy became interested in spiritual practices, gave up food of animal origin, periodically practiced fasting. After six months, Jobs dropped out of college, but continued to attend creative classes.
Step 6
The first serious work of Steve Jobs can be considered the company Atari, which was engaged in the production of video games. Jobs was paid $ 5 an hour to tweak games. A year later, Steve becomes a member of the Homemade Computer Club. After the very first meeting, Jobs, along with his friend Wozniak, began designing a personal computer, which was later named Apple I.
Step 7
On April 1, 1976, Steve Jobs, with his friends Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne, register their own company and begin mass production of printed circuit boards. It was during this period that Jobs became a frutarian, went on an apple diet and proposed giving the new company the name Apple Computer.
Step 8
In the garage of Jobs' parental home, a group of electronics-enthusiastic friends assemble the first Apple I computers. Byte store owner Paul Terrell ordered the production of 50 personal machines at once. Moreover, he did not need boards, but fully assembled and ready-to-use computers. However, Apple I was very different from classic computers in the usual sense of the modern person. No one in the world produced similar goods at that time. In August 1976, Steve Wozniak completed work on the board for the Apple II. On the new computer, it was possible to work with color and sound, connect game controllers. The Apple II had an integrated keyboard, expansion slots, floppy drives, and a plastic case.
Step 9
The Apple Computer partnership became Apple, which now had its own office and stock. Steve Jobs chooses Apple's new six-color bitten apple logo. The founders of the company were constantly in conflict, but the Apple II was successfully sold in the United States and abroad. The Apple III was focused on helping businesses and working with spreadsheets. The project was handled personally by Jobs, who was listed as the company's vice president of research and development. The Apple III project failed for a number of reasons, especially since in 1983 the IBM PC became the sales leader on the market, which pushed Apple to second place. Jobs' toughness and adherence to principles led to the fact that at the age of 25 he became chairman of the board of directors without the right to interfere in technical issues.
Step 10
Steve Jobs holds presentations of new Apple developments, but the conflict situation in the company is becoming more serious. Jobs is fired by the board of directors. Steve founds NeXT Inc., which specializes in producing computers for scientists and students. Later NeXT Inc. begins developing software for large customers, and Jobs returns to Apple. Steve Jobs will soon launch the iMac G3 - a computer with a futuristic design, USB ports for connecting peripherals and an easy-to-use graphical interface.
Step 11
It was Jobs who came up with the idea to sell goods through an online store, as well as open points of sale as close to the consumer as possible, that is, in residential areas. Jobs dreamed that the computer would become a digital center in which photos, music, films would be stored, through which it would be possible to communicate with friends and make purchases. Apple releases related software (iMovie, iTunes). The founder of the company managed to realize another dream of his: to carry the entire collection of his favorite songs in his pocket. This is how the iPod was born. But the head of Apple understood perfectly well that sooner or later mobile phones would become so powerful that they would replace players, photo and video cameras, laptops, and therefore the famous iPhone smartphones were released on the market. In parallel, Steve oversaw the development of the iPad Internet tablet.
Step 12
In October 2003, Jobs learns that he has pancreatic cancer. He refuses surgical treatment, preferring herbal medicine, veganism and acupuncture, but then he still goes to the hospital. By that time, the tumor had metastasized. Neither surgery nor chemotherapy helped, and the time was hopelessly lost.
Step 13
On June 6, 2011, Steve Jobs makes his last presentation, introducing the iCloud service and the iOS 5 operating system, and then resigns. Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011. He is still called a visionary, condemned for his business methods, but his genius is recognized.
