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The Life of Steve Jobs
Zachary Fromartz
Childhood
• Born 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
Education• Skipped 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
• 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
Apple• Born on April 1st, 1976
• Apple I designed and prototype built
• First single board computer with built-in video interface• 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 Sailing
• Most 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
Why Apple so great with Graphics?
• Most important was it was easy to learn at the time compared to other computers
• First commercial computer to use GUI• Macintosh created to compete with PC• Very popular – sold approximately 70,000
Macs in the first 100 days
Presenting Products
• Jobs was extremely enticing when he was presenting his products
• Created a story to tell his audience• He is famous for his product demonstrationsnot just for his work
Portable Audio Revolution• Less 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
Pixar
• Pixar was Jobs’ second company• Jobs became a major shareholder in1986• Swept the box office with its animated films• On January 24th, 2006, Disney bought out Pixar for $7.4 billion
Conclusion
• Due to pancreatic cancer, he past away 1955-2011
• Jobs is an influential man who learned from his failures and gained maturity from them
• True role model
The new I…..
• What I think apple will be trying to get into is the gaming console market
• Only Sony and Microsoft are in the running• Since gaming consoles sync with phones and
other devices, this is right up Apple’s alleyway