Steven Paul Jobs (Steve Jobs) was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California, America. He co-founded Apple Computer Inc. (Now Apple Inc.), NeXT, and Pixar. As an Entrepreneur and Inventor, he has made many devices, and films, including the first computer with Graphical User Interface (GUI). Because of his products, people’s lives are easier, more efficient, and more convenient. He achieved that by
Steve Jobs was an enthusiastic child who was curious about electronics. As a baby, he was put up for adoption by Abdulfattah “John” Jandali and Joanne Carole. His adopted parents were Paul Reinhold and Clara Jobs, who lived in Silicon Valley. Clara taught Steve how to read before starting Monta Loma Elementary School. Paul also taught Steve electronics in the family garage, which may have influenced him to like Technology.
In his adolescence, Steve continued to be enthusiastic about Technology. In 1971 he attended both Cupertino Junior High School and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. In High School he met his neighbour Bill Fernandez, who then introduced him to Steve Wozniak (Woz). Then in 1969 Bill and Woz made a circuit board together which they called “The Cream Soda Computer” because they drank Cream Soda a lot while making it. When they showed it to Steve Jobs, he decided to join them because he was interested and wanted to try and sell it himself. Jobs graduated from High School at age 17, and started at Reed College in Portland, Oregon studying Technology, and taking calligraphy and creative courses.
Jobs made lots of companies, devices, friendships, and enemies as an adult. Six Months after he started College, he started dropping in on creative classes after begging the Headmaster to let him. One of his many famous quotes were “If I had never done that Calligraphy course in College, the Macs would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts”. In 1974, Jobs was hired as a technician at Atari Corporation Inc. in Los Gatos, California. He and Woz decided to start selling logic boards, and after Hewlett-Packard turned down their design in 1976, they founded Apple Computer Inc. in the Jobs' family garage. Their first logic board was called the Apple I. They also made a programming language called Macintosh for the logic boards. One year later, they released an improved version which was cased in coloured plastic, had a built-in keyboard, also had ‘Macintosh’ as the programming language, and was generally more appeasing to the eye.
At age 23, Jobs visited a Technology Research Centre and saw a model of a computer with Graphical User Interface (GUI). In the same year, his girlfriend, Laurene Powell had a baby called Lisa. He brought the idea of GUI to Apple, and that became the “Lisa”, which was one of the first personal computers you didn’t have to assemble yourself.
In 1981, Woz’s Plane crashed. He didn’t die but he quit his job at Apple. In 1984, an improved version of the Lisa called the Macintosh, or Mac, came out. Jobs convinced John Sculley of the Pepsi-Cola company to join Apple by saying “Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life or do you want to change the world?”. After an argument with Sculley in 1985, Sculley convinced the Board of Directors that Jobs had to go because.
After Jobs left Apple, at age 31, he bought the Graphics Group (which later became Pixar) from Lucasfilm. Pixar started making Toy Story, which was a fully animated childrens film. Five years later, he officially married Laurene Powell, and they had a baby called Reed Paul Jobs. In 1993, Jobs’ adoptive father died. Then at age 40, Jobs had another child, Erin Sienna Jobs. He started NeXT Computer Inc..which made fancy computers and planned to sell to schools. Unfortunately, Schools wanted cheap products, and NeXT was very expensive. Meanwhile, Apple was failing, as they had not made another device since the Mac. Jobs persuaded the Board of Directors and John Sculley to buy NeXT, with one condition -- he becomes CEO of Apple again. In 1997, the plan worked - Apple bought NeXT and Steve Jobs was back in his beloved company.
At age 43, Jobs became a father again, this time to Eve Jobs. Apple finally created something up-to-date -- the I-Mac (Internet Macintosh) which had the newly created World-Wide Web integrated inside, which meant people could now enjoy the Internet on Apple Devices, a big jump from outdated to newest. It led to people starting to use Apple again. The I-Mac helped Apple financially because it’s sales were very benefitting. Three years later came the I-Pod Classic, a device that could store up-to 100 songs, the first MP3 Music Player of that type. After getting Apple a lot of money, Jobs had also managed to changed the Technology Industry by forcing other companies to compete. Then Apple started to experience problems in 2003, as Jobs discovers he had Pancreatic Cancer. Two years later, the I-Pod Nano, the I-Pod Shuffle and the I