Steve+Jobs

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"Long Biography of Steve Jobs (Youth)." //All about Steve Jobs.com//. Web. 10 Oct. 2011. .


 * 1) Jobs built the Macintosh as his own project
 * 2) He felt the Apple II belonged to Wozniak
 * 3) The Macintosh had the capibilities of the "Lisa" but price of Apple II
 * 4) In February of 1982 Jobs was cover of TIME magazine
 * 5) TIME decided to name the personal computer as "machine of the year" instead of writing a "man of the year" article
 * 6) After being insulted by a colleague in TIME interview Jobs became more suspicious of the media
 * 7) Used the Unix operating system for Next Cube
 * 8) Created a new Next factory close to Mac factory
 * 9) After the disastrous first two years of Mac it boomed and led in market
 * 10) Next Cube was disaster on market
 * 11) Jobs created Mac OS X
 * 12) Mac OS X was revolutionary operating system
 * 13) Jobs and Apple were only ones that did not think internet would kill the PC
 * 14) IPod revolutionized music
 * 15) IPod distinguished itself because of ease of use and huge memory
 * 16) Memory could store 5 gigabytes or 1000 songs
 * 17) Firewire that connected IPod was 30 times faster than USB
 * 18) 5 million tracks were sold first 5 weeks of ITunes release
 * 19) Music labels agreed to Apple's price of $0.99 cents to stop Napster
 * 20) In October 2003 Steve Jobs was diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer

"Steve Jobs Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story - Biography.com." //Famous Biographies & TV Shows - Biography.com//. Web. 10 Oct. 2011. 

1. Born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, CA 2. Experimented with other job opportunities before meeting Steve Wozniak 3. Born to Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali 4. Both parents went to University of Wisconsin and gave baby up for adoption 5. Father was Syrian political science professor 6. Mother was speech therapist 7. Shortly after he was given up, parents married and had daughter 8. As an infant Steve was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs 9. Clara was an accountant and Paul was Coast Guard veteran and machinist 10. Worked with his father on electronics in garage 11. Dad showed him how to take apart and reconstruct electronics 12. Had problems in school with being a prankster 13. 4th grade teacher bribed Steve to study 14. Tested so well he was offered to skip to high school but parents declined 15. During free time in high school spent free time at Hewlett-Packard 16. At HP Jobs befriended computer guru Steve Wozniak 17. After high school he enrolled in Reed College in Portland, OR 18. Dropped out of college after 6 months 19. In 1974 took job as video game designer with Atari 20. Several months later he quit his job to find spiritual enlightenment in India

"The Apple Museum | Steve Jobs." //The Apple Museum | Home//. Web. 10 Oct. 2011. .

1. Was CEO and co-founder of Apple Computers 2. After dropping out of college he renewed friendship with Wozniak 3. The two designed games for Atari and a telephone “blue box” 4. Was more interested in the business opportunity of computers than building them 5. Used Wozniak’s engineering skills for building computers 6. Jobs sold his Volkswagen microbus and Wozniak sold his HP calculator to raise $1300 to start company 7. While working in a garage they made their first big sale of 50 computers to Byte Shop 8. This sale started the Apple Corporation 9. The name and logo were created after Jobs’ favorite fruit and the word byte 10. Apple was known for reducing giant size of computers and selling them to the masses 11. Development of Macintosh reintroduced the user friendly interface of the mouse 12. Macintosh used windows interface in which a user controls cursor on screen using mouse 13. After turmoil and struggle in the company, Jobs resigned as Apple chairman in 1985 14. After leaving Jobs’ focus shifted from hardware to software 15. Jobs started new computer company, Next, to put Apple to shame in 1989 16. In 1993 Next closed down its hardware division 17. Created NextStep software 18. Next software was sold to Apple in 1997 19. Co-founded Pixar an award winning computer animation studio in 1986 20. In 1995 Pixar released their first film Toy Story

"STEVE JOBS." //CS Dept. NSF-Supported Education Infrastructure Project / Ei.cs.vt.edu//. Web. 10 Oct. 2011. .

1. In 1974 Jobs and Wozniak attended Homebrew Computer Club meetings 2. Became multimillionaire before age 30 3. Hired Regis McKenna and Nolan Bushnell for marketing to have Apple II compete with IBM 4. Jobs introduced the Apple III in 1981 5. The model had to be recalled for flaws 6. Jobs tried to make Nextstep on desk of every college student 7. Nextstep's management decimated after introduction 8. Jobs released a PC version of Nextstep with an Intel processor 9. Nextstep relied on Japanese partnership for financing 10. Jobs believed that Next would survive because Apple and IBM would not partner up 11. Apple was famous for Superbowl commercial 12. For the commercial Jobs advocated a gladiator image for Mac 13. Jobs wanted the public view of the Mac to be an 80's version of 60's counter culture 14. This was the image of a young person that wore jeans and showed spirit of youth 15. Sculley felt this hurt the company 16. He persuaded the board to strip Jobs of power 17. Sculley added strict working to increase productivity 18. Jobs was forced to work in a separate corporate building 19. Jobs described this move as a punch to the gut 20. He approached Sculley and gave him a list of employees that were quitting along with him and he left Apple