Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955. He was the biological son of a Syrian political science professor and a speech therapist. They gave him up for adoption and Steve was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs. As a child, Steve and his father would work on electronics in the garage. They would take a part and rebuild electronics and mechanical things building confidence and drive in Steve. Steve did not like school that much so he dropped out of college. In 1974, he worked with Atari, but did not stay at the company long. He took a trip to India to find spiritual enlightenment. In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple. Apple is a company that designs and creates Macintosh laptops and desktop computers that have the OS X operating system. At Apple, Jobs and Wozniak invented revolutionary products such as the iPad, iPhone, iPod, and iTunes. The first products were assembled in a garage.…
Steve Jobs was one of the giants of the information age, and his influence will be felt for decades to come. Jobs introduced us to multiple products that have changed the lives of many. Job’s was born in 1955 in San Francisco, California. He was a US electrical engineer and computer inventor. In 1976 along with Steve Wozniak they formed Apple Computers (Hefner 2005)…
Thanks to a never-ending campaign by Apple’s powerful public relations machine to protect the myths surrounding the company’s origin, almost everyone believes that Apple was started in a garage by “the two Steves,” Stephen Gary Wozniak, 25, and Steven Paul Jobs, 21. Actually, the operation began in a bedroom at 11161 Crist Drive in Los Altos (the house number changed to 2066 when the land was annexed from the county to the city in late 1983), where Jobs—after having dropped out of Reed College in Portland, Oregon—was living with his adoptive parents, Paul R. (a machinist at Spectra Physics) and Clara (a payroll clerk at Varian). That mere semantic distinction can be forgiven. When the bedroom became too crowded, the operation did indeed move to the garage.…
Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco and was adopted before birth by Paul Jobs and his wife Clara Jobs on February 24, 1995. Steve Jobs was the CEO of the well-known company: Apple. But becoming the CEO wasn’t not easy at all, he had to made many unconventional decision, and also do many unconventional things. This is want make people famous, by being a great nonconformist, and this is exactly what Steve Jobs has achieve.…
Steve Jobs was a very influencial, successful entrepreneur. He was the adopted son of a Mountain View, Calif., machinist. He showed early interest in electronics and gadgetry. Steve Jobs didn't finish the college, taking a part-time job in order to finance a trip to India to study Eastern culture. When he returned to the U.S., he convinced a friend, Wozniak, to go into business with him. They set up shops in Jobs' parents' garage, and began working on pototype of Apple I. To generate the $1350 in capital they used to start Apple, Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen microbus, and Steve Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard calculator. Although the Apple I sold mainly to hobbyists, it generated enough cash to enable Jobs and Wozniak to improve and refine their design. That is the way the business grew. Increasing competition caused the company to lose nearly half its market to IMB. Faced with declining sales, Jobs introduced the Apple Macintoch and the Mac as a home computer, but it was too expensive for the consumer market. Apple faced a period of decline and Jobs resigned in 1985. After more than a decade, he came back to…
Steve’s life had many challenges, but he faced every single one of them. Santa Clara County was a growing place for computers. After the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik in 1957, the country engaged billions of dollars to technology companies. So, as Steve grew up in Los Altos he became more interested in electronics. When Steve went to high school he enrolled in a electronics class. He also had a summer job at HP. Steve and his friend Woz managed to build “ blue boxes “ Which allowed you to make calls for free. Steve got a job at Atari, which was a clear inspiration to start Apple.…
Steve Jobs, a man who’s known for his contributions in the personal computer industry, is a model to many successful entrepreneurs. His intelligence created many technological advances that serve as a foundation to our modern computer systems and media devices. Apple Inc. is the essence of many years of Jobs’ assiduous work, where he and his crew developed the Apple 1, Apple II, Mac, and many more. His perfectionist attitude towards his works is what made his product superior to the products of other companies. Jobs’ journey began on February 24, 1955.…
In 1974, Steve started his first job as a video game maker in Atari. He then left the company to go to India to get things straight with his college friend. After he came back from India in 1976, him and his partner Steve Wozniak started working on the apple computer. They started to build the computer in Steve’s garage and, to get all the money to build the computer Jobs sold his only transportation his volkswagon. Wozniak sold his Scientific…
When Jobs saw how his parents were spending their whole life savings for him to go to college he knew that dropping out of college was the right thing to do. After Jobs dropped out of College he began to work on Apple in his garage with his friend Steve Wozniak, and by the age of twenty Apple was established and it would soon blowup to make billions. After several years, Steve Jobs was fired from the company he came to create because of differences with the C.E.O and the board. During the brief period that Jobs was fired from Apple he founded Pixar, which was huge deal especially since it created the first computer animated film. And then he created NeXT. Eventually he was rehired by Apple after they bought NeXT from him and then he became the C.E.O of the company finally and he revolutionized the technology industry. (Isaacson, W, 2011)…
Without Steve Jobs great mind and hands in the technologic revolution we would have never had the opportunity to see technology the way we do today and how much of an impact he has made for our future to come. Many of you sitting down today have used some type of technology today whether it was using your cell phones to make a call, text, get on the internet, or simply just to look at the time, many others used a computer to prepare for today’s speech and have used some type of technology whether it was your desktop, laptop, or even tablet to obtain resources and information. None of these belongings would even be around if it was not for Steve Jobs making the first bold move to innovate the world and form it to how we know it today.…
Steve Jobs is the co-founder of Apple Computers, the makers of well-designed, well-coordinated, and good-looking personal home computers.…
He invented many life changing things. He was a very smart and successful man. He invented many things such as the Imac or the Macbook, and the Iphone. Apple still continues to put out new products and dominate other tech companies. Steve Jobs’s life started on February 24, 1955.…
He was adopted as a small baby by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California. Jobs grew in a ranch-style house with his parents and younger sister, Patricia (Brashares). It takes one man to make a considerable difference in the world, for one may not know the talent that stands within. Steve Jobs has made the Apple Company a success through his innovative products for every man. There are different kind of companies that…
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He dropped out of that college after one semester to try to create his own companies. He took a trip to India to learn about Eastern Culture and Religious. When he returned he teamed up with people to help create a few of his companies. He created Apple in his garage which eventually grew and created the Apple 2. The Apple 2 was the first computer to have color graphics and a keyboard. The Apple 2 was a huge success by making $3,000,000 the first year it came out. After two years the Apple 2 had already made $200,000,000 from sales (“Steve Jobs: An Extraordinary Career”).…