STEVE JOBS BY WALTER ISAACSON Dear all dignitaries and peers present here‚ Welcome to this hall‚ where we are all presented with the rarest opportunity on hearing about various respected and popular members of this world. On given an opportunity‚ I wondered what should be the theme of my speech. Should I go for the Nobel laureates or the most popular figurines or people who changed this world? Nobel laureates are historic‚ and popular people as noted are already quite popular. So‚ let’s hear about
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Steve Jobs: The Powerful Engine of America Xiao Xin Mrs. Bly English 11 Research Paper 24 Apr. 2013 Xin Steve Jobs: The Powerful Engine of America In 1976‚ a young man and his friend‚ both of whom were not wealthy‚ started a computer company called “Apple” in a small garage in California. Ten years later‚ the young man was expelled from the company which he created; he then started a new business named “Pixar”‚ which attempted to make animation movies by using computer technology. After over
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released a highly stable operating system in 1999‚ and updates following 1999. Apple had one of its critical points in history in 1999 when it introduced the iBook. This completed their “product matrix”‚ a simplified product mix strategy formulated by Jobs. This move allowed Apple to have a desktop and a portable computer in both the professional and the consumer segments. The matrix is as follows: | Professional Segment | Consumer Segment | Desktop | G3 | iMac | Portable | PowerBook | iBook
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Article Summary 2 Alex Tuluka MGT 305 Article : “ The lost Steve Jobs Tapes” Summary Mr. Schlender starts by saying : “If Steve Jobs’s life were staged as an opera‚ it would be a tragedy in three acts. And the titles would go something like this: Act I--The Founding of Apple Computer and the Invention of the PC Industry; Act II--The Wilderness Years; and Act III--A Triumphant Return and Tragic Demise.” Steve Jobs was fired from Apple in 1985‚ After a couple of days he sold all but one of his
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Family background Steve Jobs was born on February 24‚ 1955‚ in the city of San Francisco. His biological mother was an unwed graduate student (and his biological father is said to be a political science or mathematics professor‚ maybe of Middle-Western descent -but this has never been confirmed). Back in the 50s‚ it was unconceivable for such a young woman to raise a child on her own‚ so she decided to put her little baby boy up for adoption. But she insisted that the adoptive parents had to
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“Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” In an effective team everyone collaborates to become successful. Joshua Davis the author of “La Vida Robot” and Walter Isaacson‚ author of an excerpt from Steve Jobs share similar views on what makes an effective team. Both authors believe an effective team consists of individuals who have distinctive and noteworthy skills that lead the team to success. In “La Vida Robot‚” Davis describes the different skills
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Steve Jobs lived a life unparalleled by the common man. Raising some of the most successful corporations from the ground up‚ being at the forefront of the technological revolution‚ and battling pancreatic cancer for a number of years were all things that he succeeded in accomplishing throughout his 56 years of life. He also happened to deliver a brilliant commencement address to one of the finest academic institutions in the world. Any college graduate in the audience that sunny afternoon at Stanford
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Chronological Biography of Steve Jobs 1955 - Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs was born. -he was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993) and Clara Jobs (1924–1986) 1960 - Jobs family moved from San Francisco to Mountain View‚ California 1972 -Graduated from high school at Homestead High School in Cupertino‚ California -Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland‚ Oregon - dropped out of college after six months -Given a job as a technician at Atari‚ Inc. in Los Gatos‚ California mid-1974 -Travelled
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that not another company has ever manage to design and make. But the person behind this is even more unimaginable‚ and he is Steve Jobs: the great nonconformist who listen to no one disobey anyone he disagree with and the great visionary who knew what the customers want before the customer know what they want and also the innovator. Before I get on with why Steve Jobs is a great nonconformist I will be defining what is a great nonconformist. A nonconformist an unconventional person‚ which mean
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more. Steve Jobs was the CEO for 14 years‚ and this was probably the most important 14 years of Apple Inc.’s rise. He didn’t design the products but what he did was just as important. The principles Steve Job’s held have benefited the company and are currently shared by Apple Inc. employees. These products mentioned might not have come to pass had it not been for Apple Inc.’s constant need to innovate. That’s an attitude driven by Jobs‚ during flush times‚ as well as when the tech business was flagging
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