Steve Jobs American businessman

Steve Jobs

American businessman

Why is Steve Jobs significant?

Steve Jobs, in full Steven Paul Jobs, (born February 24, 1955, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died October 5, 2011, Palo Alto, California), cofounder of Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.), and a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer era.

What was Steve Jobs’s early life like?

Steve Jobs, in full Steven Paul Jobs, (born February 24, 1955, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died October 5, 2011, Palo Alto, California), cofounder of Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.), and a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer era.

How did Steve Jobs die?

Steve Jobs, in full Steven Paul Jobs, (born February 24, 1955, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died October 5, 2011, Palo Alto, California), cofounder of Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.), and a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer era.

Founding of Apple

Apple Jobs' founding parents reared him in Cupertino, California, a city that is now a part of Silicon Valley. He had a variety of youthful interests in addition to his interest in engineering. In early 1974, he accepted a position as a video game designer at Atari Corporation in Portland, Oregon, dropped out of Reed College, and used his savings to fund a trip to India to practise Buddhism.

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Jobs met with Stephen Wozniak, an old high school classmate who was working for the Hewlett-Packard Company, when he returned to Silicon Valley in the fall of 1974. Jobs offered that Wozniak and he form a partnership after Wozniak informed Jobs of his progress in creating his own computer logic board. This was done after Hewlett-Packard was officially established.

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Jobs was in charge of the most significant project in the company's history at the time. He took a small group of Apple engineers to the Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1979 to view a technology demonstration to see how the graphical user interface may make computers more user-friendly and productive. Soon after, Jobs quit the technical team working on the Lisa business computer to lead a smaller team developing a less expensive model. Both computers underwent redesigns to better utilise and implement PARC concepts, but Jobs made it clear that he preferred the Macintosh, or Mac, as the new device came to be called. Jobs treated his engineers like artists and gave them special treatment, yet his style was rigid;

Pixar and NeXT

NeXT Inc., which Jobs swiftly founded, creates powerful workstation computers for the educational sector. Ross Perot, a businessman from Texas, and Canon Inc., a Japanese electronics corporation, were among his financiers. Despite the NeXT computer being renowned for its technical design, less expensive models from rival companies like Sun Microsystems, Inc. overshadowed it. Early in the 1990s, Jobs centred the business around its ground-breaking software platform, NEXTSTEP.

Meanwhile, in 1986 Jobs purchased a majority stake in Pixar, a computer graphics company that was originally established as a part of Lucasfilm Ltd., the Hollywood film director George Lucas' production company. In the ensuing ten years, Jobs transformed Pixar into a significant animation firm that, among other things, created the first feature-length film.

Apple's rescue

iMac in Steve Jobs' hands

Gilbert Amelio, a semiconductor executive, was appointed as Apple's new CEO in late 1996, when the company was suffering from severe financial losses and on the verge of bankruptcy. Amelio chose NEXTSTEP, purchasing Jobs's firm for more than $400 million—and bringing Jobs back to Apple as a consultant—when he found that the company had failed to build an adequate replacement for the ageing operating system (OS) of the Macintosh. In June 1997, Apple's prodigal cofounder was asked to take over as CEO after the board of directors became frustrated with Amelio's inability to improve the company's financial situation. Jobs soon established a partnership with Apple's former rival, the Microsoft Corporation, and cancelled

Remaking Apple

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Jobs began reimagining Apple for the twenty-first century in 2001. In that year, Apple released iTunes, a software application that allows users to play music and convert it to the small MP3 digital format, which is widely used in computers and other digital devices. Later that year, Apple started selling the iPod, a little MP3 player that immediately dominated its market. In 2003, Apple started offering MP3 downloads of popular music from major record labels online. Through Apple's online iTunes Store, more than one billion songs and videos have been sold by the year 2006. On January 1, 2010, Jobs formally changed the company's name to Apple Inc. to reflect the expanding business move.

Health problems

iPad in Steve Jobs' hands

Jobs received a rare kind of pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 2003. He postponed surgery for roughly nine months as he experimented with other treatments. He underwent a significant reconstructive procedure known as the Whipple operation in 2004. The pancreas, bile duct, gallbladder, and duodenum were removed as part of the treatment, and the remaining pancreatic, bile duct, and intestine were then reconnected to send digestive fluids back into the stomach. Jobs quickly recovered and resumed leading Apple.

Jobs lost a lot of weight throughout 2008, which sparked a lot of rumours that his disease had returned. (The typical rate of survival for