Steven Paul Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, United States, February 24, 1955 was the leader of Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak and the main character in the computer industry. As co-founder (with Steve Wozniak) Apple Computer in 1976, he popularized the concept of computers in households with the Apple II. Later, he was one of those who first realized the potential to commercialize a graphical user interface (graphical user interface) and mouse being developed at the Palo Alto Research Center Xerox company, and then the application of this technology into the Apple Macintosh.


  
Jobs also led the Pixar Animation Studios, a leading company in the world of computer animated big screen. has become a multi-millionaire before the age of 30 years. Starting with the NeXT company to make the education system at an affordable cost, finding that selling software is better than just selling hardware.

  
Born in San Francisco by his mother Joanne Simpson, and her father Abdulfattah Jandali guest student from Syria who later became professor of political science. From infancy he was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California. Adoptive parents that gave the name of Steven Jobs. Biological parents later married and gave her younger sister named Mona Simpson is the now famous as a novelist.

  
He passed the junior high and high school in Curpetino, Califonia, often after school hours to teach at Hewlett Packard Company in Palo Alto, California. So no wonder that soon after he and Steve Wozniak soon became a part-time workers in this company. In 1972, Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California and was accepted at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but out / drop out after one semester. But he immediately signed up to Reed College, one of the things learned here calligraphy. "If I was never out of place to study only one semester of the current Mac probably will not have multiple typefaces or fonts are proportional," he said. 
In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and began attending meetings of "Homebrew Computer Club" with Steve Wozniak. He and Wozniak worked together at Atari Inc.., A manufacturer of the famous computer game, with a position as designer of the game. The motivation then was to raise money for a spiritual journey to India.

Jobs spiritual enlightenment then travel to India with his friend at Reed College, Daniel Kottke, who later became the first Apple employee. Returned from India he became a Buddhist with a hair shaved / shaven and wearing traditional Indian clothing (monks). During this period he practiced psychedelics (a kind of meditation, then Jobs are often considered weird, because walking barefoot over the snow-consciousness is a kind of meditation). This is a two or three most important things in life that he has ever done in his life.

  
In 1976, Jobs, then 21, and Wozniak, 26, founded Apple Computer Co.. in the Jobs family garage. Personal computer Jobs and Wozniak introduced the Apple I. The name given The computer was sold for U.S. $ 666.66, as a reference to the phone number of Wozniak's Dial-A-Joke machine, which ended in -6666.
  
In 1977, Jobs and Wozniak introduced the Apple II, which became a huge success in the home market and give Apple a big influence on the personal computer industry is still young. In 1980, Apple Computer became a publicly traded corporation, and a successful IPO, Jobs added. Year, removing Apple Computer Apple III, although success is not as good as before.





  
Along with the development of Apple Computer, the company began looking for new leadership to help manage the development of the company. In 1983, Jobs lured John Sculley from Pepsi-Cola company, to lead Apple Computer, with a challenge, "Do you want to sell carbonated drinks in your life, or will you change the world?" (Do you want to just sell sugared water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world?) That same year, Apple also released the Apple Lisa that the technology was ahead of its time but failed to reach the buyers in the market share .
  
1984 saw the introduction of the Macintosh, the first computer which successfully sold into the market by presenting a graphical user interface feature. Mac development triggered by Jef Raskin and the team uses technology that has been developed not by Apple, as in Xerox's PARC, but have not been commercialized. The success of the Macintosh made by Apple abandoned the Apple II to develop the production of the Mac, which stands to this day.

  
Although very persuasive and charismatic Jobs for Apple, Many consider him as a leader who easily changed his mind and beremosi high. In 1985, after an internal leadership within Apple, Sculley Jobs dismiss from office and expelled from Apple.
  
Once out of Apple, Jobs founded another computer company, NeXT Computer, which like Lisa, NeXT was ahead in terms of technology, but never became popular, except in the scope of scientific research. (Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web system at CERN using a NeXT workstation.), But NeXT help advance technologies such as object-oriented programming, PostScript, and themagneto-optical.
  
In 1996, Apple bought NeXT for U.S. $ 402 million, and brought Jobs back to the company he founded. In 1997 he became Apple's interim following the departure of Gil Amelio.

  
With the purchase of NeXT, much of the technology from NeXT applied to the Apple products, especially NeXTSTEP, which evolved into Mac OS X. Jobs under the guidance of the company boost its sales after introducing the iMac. iMac is the first computer sold with emphasis on their appearance (although the iMac is also much use of advanced technology in it). Since then, the appearance of an attractive and well-known brand that has paid dividends for Apple.

  
Recently, Apple began to expand. With the introduction of the iPod portable music devices, iTunes software and iTunes Music Store, the company is doing a breakthrough in the field of personal electronic devices and online music. While stimulating innovation, Jobs also reminds his subordinates that, "a true artist to fruition," (real artists ship) that the intention is, producing works in a timely manner is as important as product innovation and telling.

Jobs worked at Apple for several years with a salary of U.S. $ 1/tahun. Hence he recorded in the book Guinness World Records as the "leader of the company with the lowest wages" (Lowest Paid Chief Executive Officer). After Apple began selling profit return, the company is releasing his title as interim leader. Current income in the U.S. Apple is $ 219 million, according to an article written on the Bloomberg site in 2003.


  
Jobs is admired for his skills to convince people and a superior salesman, who is often called the reality distortion field, and this was evident when he gave the keynote speeches at Apple expos. However, persistence has also been invited unlucky. The violence of his head may have caused Apple to lose a golden opportunity to become a leader in the field of personal computers. Keenganannya to let other companies make compatible with Macintosh computers that Apple had to swallow defeat resulted in the capture of existing computer users. Hardware and software company finally decided to adopt the IBM PC platform using Microsoft's operating system. Microsoft then also catch up with Apple to develop a graphical user interface of their own making, Microsoft Windows.

  
In 1986, Jobs founded (with Edwin Catmull) Pixar, a computer animation studio in Emeryville, California. The Company was incorporated from what was formerly Lucasfilm's computer graphics division, which Jobs bought from its founder, George Lucas, amounting to U.S. $ 10 million. A decade later, Pixar developed into a popular and successful with his breakthrough movie Toy Story. Since then Pixar has produced films that won the Academy Award Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Because of his leadership at Pixar and also kemapanannya at Apple, Jobs is considered by many observers of the entertainment industry one candidate Michael Eisner's successor as leader of The Walt Disney Company, which distributes and finance films made by Pixar.

On 25 August 2011, Founder and President (CEO) of Apple Inc., Steven Paul Jobs was officially decided to resign. But he is still remembered by the world community because of the work - his work. Beginning in 1976 he issued Apples l. The work - his work continues to grow until 2010 he issued last year that had horrendous iPad world.

  
Steve Jobs died at the age of 56 years. After struggling with pancreatic cancer who had been biting his body for several years. News' Steve Jobs died "was announced by Apple on Wednesday night led October 5, 2011. Silicon Valley icon is remembered for his services to entertain the world with the iPod iPhone and the last is the iPad. Last August, he had just handed the CEO position to Tim Cook. Steve Jobs himself at Apple is known as a legend maestro even arguably the most innovative technologies of this century. Slamat way the maestro

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