Amaya Toman Steve Jobs is one of the personalities who managed to become an icon during his lifetime. Although he was not the only one who stood at the birth of the apple company, for many people he is the symbol of Apple. This year, Steve Jobs would have celebrated his sixty-third birthday. Let's recall some facts about the life of this extraordinary visionary.
There is no Apple without Jobs
The differences between Steve Jobs and John Sculley culminated in 1985 with the departure of Jobs from the Apple company. While Steve Jobs brought the revolutionary NeXT cube computer to the market under the banner of NeXT, Apple did not do very well. In 1996, Apple bought NeXT and Jobs triumphantly returned to its leadership.
The rise of Pixar
In 1986, Steve Jobs bought a division from Lucasfilm, which later became known as Pixar. Major animated films such as Toy Story, Up to the Clouds or Wall-E were later created under his wing.
One dollar a year
In 2009, Steve Jobs' salary at Apple was one dollar, while for many years Jobs did not collect a single cent from his shares. When he left Apple in 1985, he managed to sell about $14 million worth of Apple stock. He also had considerable wealth in the form of shares in the Walt Disney Company.
A perfectionist through and through
Google's Vic Gundotra once told a good story about how Steve Jobs called him one Sunday in January 2008 saying that the Google logo didn't look good on his iPhone. In particular, he was troubled by the shade of yellow in the second "O". The next day, the Apple co-founder sent an email to Google with the subject line "Icon Ambulance", containing instructions on how to fix the Google logo.
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No iPads
When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad in 2010, he described it as an amazing device for both entertainment and education. But he himself denied iPads to his children. "Actually, the iPad is banned in our house," he said in one of the interviews. "We think its impact may be too dangerous." Jobs saw the iPad's risk mainly in its addictive nature.
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The Devil's Price
The Apple I computer sold for $1976 in 666,66. But don't look for satanic symbolism or occult tendencies of the manufacturers in it. The reason was Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak's penchant for repeating numbers.
Brigade at HP
Steve Jobs was a technology enthusiast from a young age. When he was just twelve years old, Hewlett Packard founder Bill Hewlett offered him a summer job after Jobs called him for parts for his project.
Education as a condition
That Steve Jobs was adopted is a widely known fact. But what is less known is that his biological parents imposed on Jobs' adoptive parents Clara and Paul as one of the conditions that they would guarantee their son a university education. This was only partially achieved - Steve Jobs did not finish college.
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