2. INTRODUCTION
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs ( February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)
was an American information technology entrepreneur and inventor. He
was the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer (CEO)
of Apple Inc.; CEO and largest shareholder of Pixar Animation Studios;
a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following
its acquisition of Pixar; and founder, chairman, and CEO of Next Inc.
Adopted at birth in San Francisco, and raised in the San Francisco Bay
Area during the 1960s, Jobs's counter cultural lifestyle was a product
of his time.
Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal
computer. The duo gained fame and wealth a year later for the Apple
II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers.
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4. CHILDHOOD
Steven Jobs spent his childhood in Silicon Valley.
He was the type of child who liked to stick to himself. He only did
competitive swimming, and no team sports. He was interested in
electronics and gadgets, because he would spend a lot of time in his
neighbour's garage, who worked at Hewlett-Packard Company.
He joined the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Club, where he saw his first
computer at the age of 12. He was impressed with the computer and
knew he wanted to work with computers.
The class that interested him was a calligraphy class, because after he
dropped out, he continued taking calligraphy classes at Reed College.
When Steve joined the Homebrew Computer Club group, he was
surprised by the small computer Steve Wozniak was trying to build.
Steve was excited about all the components of a computer.
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6. (1972-1985)
PRE-APPLE
o In 1973, Steve Wozniak designed his
own version of the classic video
game Pong.
o In mid-1972, Jobs moved back to
the San Francisco Bay Area and was
renting his own apartment.
o Jobs traveled to India in mid-1974
to visit Neem Karoli Baba at his
Kainchi ashram with his Reed friend.
o in a 1994 interview, recalled that
it took six months for him and
Wozniak to figure out how to build
the blue boxes. Jobs said that if
not for the blue boxes, there would
have been no Apple.
APPLE
o Jobs began attending meetings of the Homebrew
Computer Club with Wozniak in 1975.
o In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer.
o By the early 1977, she and Jobs would spend time
together at her home at Duveneck Ranch in Los
Altos, which served as a hostel and environmental
education center.
o In 1977, Jobs and Wozniak introduced the Apple
II at the West Coast Computer Faire.
o In 1977, with the success of Apple now a part of
their relationship, Brennan,Daniel Kottke, and Jobs
moved into a house near to the Apple office
in Cupertino.
o In 1978, Apple recruited Mike Scott from National
Semiconductor to serve as CEO for what turned
out to be several turbulent years.
7. (1985-1997)
NeXT COMPUTERS
o Jobs founded NeXT Inc. in 1985 after his resignation from Apple with
$7 million.
o NeXT workstations were first released in 1990, priced at US$9,999. The
NeXT workstation was known for its technical strengths, chief among them
its object-oriented software development system.
o The revised, second generation NeXT cube was released in 1990, also. Jobs
touted it as the first "interpersonal" computer that would replace the
personal computer.
o In 1996, NeXT Software, Inc. released Web Objects, a framework for Web
application development.
o After NeXT was acquired by Apple Inc. in 1997, WebObjects was used to
build and run the Apple Store, Mobile Me services, and the iTunes Store.
8. PIXAR AND DISNEY
In 1986, Jobs funded the spinout of The Graphics Group (later
renamed Pixar) from Lucas film's computer graphics division.
Over the next 15 years, under Pixar's creative chief John Lasseter, the
company produced box-office hits:
o A Bug's Life (1998)
o Toy Story 2 (1999)
o Monsters, Inc. (2001)
o Finding Nemo (2003)
o The Incredibles (2004)
o Cars (2006)
o Ratatouille (2007)
o WALL-E (2008)
o Up (2009)
o Toy Story 3 (2010)
In October 2005, Bob Iger replaced Eisner at Disney, and Iger quickly
worked to mend relations with Jobs and Pixar. The Walt Disney Company's
largest single shareholder with approximately seven percent of the
company's stock
9. RETURN TO APPLE
(1997-2011)
• In 1996, Apple announced that it would
buy NeXT for $427 million.
• The deal was finalized in February 1997.
• In March 1998, to concentrate Apple's efforts on
returning to profitability, Jobs terminated a number
of projects, such as Newton, Cyberdog, and OpenDoc.
• In 2001, Jobs was granted stock options in the
amount of 7.5 million shares of Apple with an
exercise price of $18.30.
• Jobs was perceived as a demanding perfectionist.
• In a 2011 interview with biographer Walter Isaacson,
Jobs revealed that he had met with U.S.
President Barack Obama, complained about the
nation's shortage of software engineers
11. RESIGNATION
On August 24, 2011, Jobs
announced his resignation as
Apple's CEO, writing to the
board:-
"I have always said if there ever
came a day when I could no longer
meet my duties and expectations
as Apple's CEO, I would be the
first to let you know.
Unfortunately, that day has
come.“
Jobs became chairman of the
board and named Tim Cook as his
successor as CEO.
DEATH
Jobs died at his Palo Alto,
California, home around 3 p.m.
on October 5, 2011, because of
complications from a relapse of
his previously treated islet-cell
neuroendocrine pancreatic
cancer, resulting in respiratory
arrest.
He had lost consciousness the
day before and died with his
wife, children, and sisters at his
side.
