Farewell to a Genius

Farewell To A Genius A LOOK BACK ON THE LIFE AND TIMES OF STEVE JOBS, THE MAN WHO STRIVVED TO MAKE A DENT IN THE UNIVERSE. His Life Jobs was born in San Francisco and was 1955 adopted by the family of Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California. Jobs enrolled at Reed College in 1972 Portland, Oregon. CC IfI had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. 2 Jobs returned to California and began 1974 attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve Wozniak. He took a job as a technician at Atari, with the primary intent of saving money for a spiritual retreat to India. Legacy His Work 1976 Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry by democratizing the technology and making the machines smaller, cheaper, WHEN JOBS WAS JUST 21, HE AND WOZNIAK STARTED APPLE COMPUTERS. The duo started in the Jobs family garage, after Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak sold his beloved scientific calculator. intuitive, and accessible to everyday consumers. $774,000 APPAR Earned by their first model, the Apple I. COMPUTR 1979 $139 Million Apple Il sales. Created by Rob Janoff 1983 Jobs looked to marketing expert John Sculley, CEO of Pepsi-Cola, to help fill the role of Apple's CEO. IBM IBM suddenly surpassed Apple sales, and Apple had to compete with an IBM/PC dominated business world. 1984 Apple released the Macintosh, marketing the computer as a piece of a counter culture lifestyle: romantic, youthful, creative. MACINTOSH 128K Initial Price $2,495 The Macintosh was still not IBM compatible. Sculley believed Jobs was hurting Apple, and executives began to phase him out. 1985 Jobs resigned as Apple's CEO to begin a new hardware and software company called NeXT, Inc. PIXA R Believing in Pixar's potential, Jobs initially invested $5 million of his own money into the company. The studio merged with Walt Disney in 2006, making Steve Jobs Disney's largest shareholder. 1986 Eve Jobs purchased an animation company from George Lucas, which later became Pixar System Software Animation Studios for $10 million. 2.01 Erin Reed 1991 Despite Pixar's success, NeXT, Inc. floundered in its attempts to sell its specialized operating system to mainstream America. Sienna Paul Jobs married Laurene Powell on March 18, and lived together in Palo Alto, California, with their three children. Steven Laurene Paul Apple buys NeXT Inc. for 1997 $429 Million Lisa Brennan Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Chrisann Brennan. Jobs returned to his Mac Os post as Apple's CEO. 7.6 The Return Mac Os 8.0 With a new management team, altered stock options, and a self-imposed annual salary of $1 a year, Jobs put Apple back on track. His ingenious products such as the iMac, effective branding campaigns, and stylish designs caught the attention of consumers once again. İMAC (BONDI BLUE) 1998 Was Apple's computer for the new millennium. Aimed at the low-end consumer market and designed with the internet in mind, the iMac was positioned by Apple as the most original new computer since the original Mac in 1984, and came in a stylish new case design, with translucent "Bondi Blue" plastics. 000 Simplified logotype İMAC 5 FLAVORS 1999 Came in 5 dazzling new colors: Blueberry, Strawberry, Lime, Tangerine and Grape. İBOOK (FIREWIRE) It introduced an innovative new 2000 Mac Os POWER MACINTOSH G3 (BLUE AND WHITE) Sporting an all new translucent "easy-open" case design (code named "El-Capitan"), the new G3 was the first Apple model to support FireWire, Apple's new high-speed serial standard. 9.0 combination video/audio out port which allowed consumers to watch their DVDS on their TV. 2001 APPLE RELEASES: Mac Os X (Cheetah) Powerbook G4 IPOD WITH SCROLL WHEEL Was a hard disk based digital music player that was smaller than most portable tape decks. The iPod could compete with both flash-based and hard disk based players: By using a 1.8" hard disk. 2002 iTunes APPLE RELEASES: iMac Flat panel iPod with touch wheel Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver) Power Mac G4 (Mirrored drive doors) Mac Os X (Jaguar) Jobs discovered he had a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare but operable form of pancreatic cancer. APPLE RELEASES: 2003 Instead of immediately opting for surgery, Jobs chose to alter his pescovegetarian diet while weighing Eastern treatment options. Power Mac G5 Jobs had a successful surgery to remove the pancreatic tumor. True to form, in subsequent years Jobs disclosed little about his health. 2004 During Jobs' absence, Timothy D. Cook, head of worldwide sales and operations at Apple, ran the company. APPLE RELEASES: iPod Photo iMac G5 2005 Mac Os X (Tiger) Mac Os X (Leopard) APPLE RELEASES: iPod Shuffle iPod Nano Mac Mini IPHONE IPOD TOUCH 2007 The genesis of the iPhone was Jobs' direction that Was launched on Apple engineers investigate touch-screens. September 5, through an event called "The Beat Goes On" 2008 APPLE RELEASES: Mac Book Air THE REPORTS OF MY DEATH ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED. Time Capsule iPhone 3G iPod Nano 4th generation iPod Classic (official revised version) Mac Book Mac Book Pro was the thinnest Apple laptop yet released. It was positioned as a high-end ultra- portable system. Steve Jobs at Apple's Keynote "Let's Rock" Apple announced that Tim Cook would run day-to-day operations and that Jobs would continue to be involved in major strategic decisions at the company. Mạc Os X (Snow Leopard) 2009 2010 IPAD (Wifi) The product was announced at an Apple press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The device's imminent release had been rumored for several months with iSlate and iTablet among speculated names. 2011 Mac Os X (Lion) According to social media CC Thave always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come. 2) monitoring firm SR7 the online reaction reached 10,000 tweets per second! Job's Resignation Letter, August 24 ON OCTOBER 5, 2011, APPLE INC. ANNOUNCED THAT CO-FOUNDER STEVE JOBS HAD DIED. HE WAS 56 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH. Apple inc. Market cap (in billion $US) $306 BILLION 15 Billion songs $223 billion 54 Million have been sold $219 billion $212 billion through iTunes active Mac users 40 Million 14 Billion apps 18 Billion songs 69% iPhones were sold Apple has in their total iTunes Store Library in 2009 Have been downloaded in less than 3 years of Apple's revenues are from product categories 110, 000 -- 1.27 that Apple has invented in the past 10 years. 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