Amaya Toman Today is exactly sixty-five years since Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs was born. During his time at Apple, Jobs was at the birth of countless revolutionary and game-changing products, and his work continues to inspire many people around the world across various fields.
Steve Jobs was born as Steven Paul Jobs on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California. He grew up in the care of adoptive parents in the San Francisco Bay Area and entered Reed College in the early XNUMXs, from which he was almost immediately expelled. He spent the following years traveling around India and studying Zen Buddhism, among other things. He also dabbled with hallucinogens at the time, and later described the experience as "one of the two or three most important things he's ever done in his life."
In 1976, Jobs founded the Apple company with Steve Wozniak, which produced the Apple I computer, followed a year later by the Apple II model. In the 1984s, Jobs began to promote a graphical user interface and control using a mouse, which was unconventional at the time for personal computers. While the Lisa computer did not meet with much mass market acceptance, the first Macintosh from XNUMX was already a more significant success. A year after the release of the first Macintosh, however, Jobs left the company after disagreements with the then CEO of Apple, John Sculley.
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He started his own company called NeXT and bought the Pixar division (originally Graphics Group) from LucasFilm. Apple didn't do very well without Jobs. In 1997, the company bought Jobs' NeXT, and before long Jobs became Apple's first interim, then "permanent" director. In the "postNeXT" era, for example, the colorful iMac G3, iBook and other products emerged from Apple's workshop, services such as iTunes and the App Store were also born under Jobs' leadership. Gradually, the Mac OS X operating system (the successor to the original Mac OS) saw the light of day, which drew on the NeXTSTEP platform from NeXT, and a number of innovative products, such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod, were also born.
Among other things, Steve Jobs was also famous for his peculiar speech. The lay and professional public still remember Apple Keynotes delivered by him, but the speech that Steve Jobs delivered in 2005 at Stanford University also entered history.
Among other things, Steve Jobs was the recipient of the National Medal of Technology in 1985, four years later he was Inc. magazine. declared entrepreneur of the decade. In 2007, Fortune magazine named him the most influential person in business. However, Jobs received honors and awards even after his death - in 2012 he received the in memoriam Grammy Trustees award, in 2013 he was named a Disney legend.
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Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer in 2011, but according to his successor, Tim Cook, his legacy remains firmly rooted in Apple's philosophy.
Please, February is always written with a comma and not a circle.
Hi, thanks for the heads up, fixed. In this case, it was really a mistake on the keyboard, not ignorance.