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The Life of Steve Jobs and Apple at a Glance
Young Steven JobsBorn on February 24th, 1955 in
San Francisco, California
Put up for adoption a week after birth
Adoption was finalized under the condition that Steven would attend college
EducationSkipped 5th grade
Took his first electronics class in high school
After school, attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard company where he met Steve Wonzniak during work
Education (Cont.)Graduated high school in 1972
Enrolled in Reed College in Oregon
Dropped out after one semester
Slept on his friends dorm room floor and dropped in on classes of interest
The Beginning of A CareerReturned to California in 1974 and was
hired as a technician for Atari
Attended meetings at Wozniak’s “Homebrew Computer Club”
Steve convinced Wozniak to work with him in building computers
AppleBorn on April 1st, 1976
Apple I designed and prototype built
First single board computer with built-in video interface
Apple (Cont.)Apple II designed in the following year
Operating System loaded automatically
Smaller Components & built-in circuitry
In 1976, Jobs looked to hire a public relations agency to help advertise
Smooth SailingMost investors turned Apple
down
Retired Intel executive Mike Markkula decided to invest
Markkula became chairman of Apple in May 1977
Smooth Sailing (Cont.)Became publicly traded company in
1980
Launched LISA in 1983
First commercial computer to use GUI
Unpopular due to its few software programs and high price
Smooth Sailing (Cont.)Macintosh created to compete
with PC
Marketed for friendliness, not just a mindless machine
Very popular – sold approximately 70,000 Macs in the first 100 days
The DownfallSales began to plunge
Wozniak quit Apple in 1985
Board members of Apple met on May 28th, 1985 and each voted on the removal of Steve from the company
Still Looking UpAfter taking time off, Jobs wanted
to get back to Apple and his love for computers
Decided to start his own company
Founded NeXT Computer in 1989
Still Looking Up (Cont.)NeXT turned a profit for the first
time in 1992
NeXT software needed to be made more reliable and compatible for consumers
Company slowly starts going downhill
Still Looking Up (Cont.)Jobs was criticized for wasting
money that belonged to the company in 1993
Closed a NeXT factory in that February
Laid off half of the employees and stopped making computers
Still Looking Up (Cont.)Jobs had to make drastic
decisions
Microsoft purchased NeXT software
Microsoft came up with $150 million to stake in Apple
Saved a dying company.
Still Looking Up (Cont.)Jobs management style had
drastically changed
Relaxed and was open to suggestions
Employees commented that Jobs made experimenting with electronics fun
Still Looking Up (Cont.)Jobs began looking into
alternatives to Object Linking and Embedding
Created OpenDoc
Jobs was very serious about this
Still Looking Up (Cont.)NeXT STEP software was being
turned into Mac OS X
Under Jobs’ guidance the company increased sales
Introduced the iMac and other new products
Still Looking Up (Cont.)Jobs held the title of ICEO
Very influential impact on the Apple company
By the year 2000, he created even greater advances in new technology
The New Beginning
In early 2000, Pixar leads animated film industry
Later that month, Jobs announced his return to the CEO position
Insisted on keeping his $1 annual salary
The New Beginning (Cont.)Although his salary was low, the
company granted him ten million shares of Apple stock worth hundreds of millions
The New Beginning (Cont.)First project as CEO was the G4
Cube
Was too expensive and didn’t satisfy a certain market
Lasted only twelve months in Apple’s line-up
The New Beginning (Cont.)The next step for Steve was his
newest operating system, Mac OS X
The future of Apple
The New Beginning (Cont.)Apple wanted software to sync
up digital devices
Was turned down by most companies
Jobs took matters into his own hands and created iLife suite.
The New Beginning (Cont.) In 2001, Jobs opened Apple
retail stores so customers could:1. Try out computers2. Test software3. Meet with salespeople
This was a large risk but he knew that people would want to buy them
Portable Audio RevolutionLess than a year after iTunes was
released, Apple released the iPod
Originally only for Mac users
In July 2002, the new iPod was available for Windows users as well
Sales skyrocketed and 75% of MP3 players are iPods
Portable Audio Revolution (Cont.)In eight weeks, five million songs
were sold on iTunes
Took over 80% of the legal music downloading market
More Successful Changes
June 6th, 2005, Jobs announced switch from PowerPC chips to Intel chips.
This would conserve energy on PowerBook and iBook
More Successful Changes (Cont.)October 2005, 5th generation of iPod
was introduced
Could play music videos and TV shows
Jobs announced the opening of the iTunes video store
PixarPixar was Jobs’ second company
Swept the box office with its animated films
On January 24th, 2006, Disney bought out Pixar for $7.4 billion
ConclusionDespite a recent scare with
pancreatic cancer, Jobs is back in health and doing just fine
Jobs is an influential man who learned from
his failures and gained maturity from them
True role model
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