Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne together founded the Apple Computers in the 1970s.
Steve Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC’s mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa. On January 24, 1984 he introduced the Macintosh to an enthusiastic audience.
However, due to his ”erratic and temperamental” behavior as described by employees at the time, he often faced problems at Apple Computers. He also apparently kept meetings running past midnight and then called new meetings at 7:00 am. On May 24, 1985, Apple’s board removed Jobs from his managerial duties as head of the Macintosh division.
Jobs founded NeXT Computer in 1985, with $7 million. In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm’s computer graphics division for the price of $10 million. The first film produced by the partnership, Toy Story, with Jobs credited as executive producer.
In 1996, Apple announced that it would buy NeXT for $427 million, thus welcoming Steve Jobs back to the company. In 2005 Jobs admitted that being fired from Apple was the best thing that happened to him.
Personal Struggles
Steve Jobs was married to an unmarried couple who gave him up for adoption. He was then adopted by Paul Reinhold Jobs and Clara Jobs. Jobs’ biological parents married and had another baby girl, Mona Simpson. Steve Jobs found out about his blood sister from his biological mother and met Mona Simpson in 1985. They apparently became close friends later on.
Steve Jobs is also known to have visited India after he dropped out from Reed College. He visited the Neem Karoli Baba in search of spiritual enlightenment. He also apparently spent and lot of time in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh.
Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. The visionaries gained fame and wealth a year later for the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers. In 1979, after a tour of PARC, Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto, which was mouse-driven and had a graphical user interface (GUI). This led to development of the unsuccessful Apple Lisa in 1983, followed by the breakthrough Macintosh in 1984. In addition to being the first mass-produced computer with a GUI, the Macintosh introduced the sudden rise of the desktop publishing industry in 1985 with the addition of the Apple LaserWriter, the first laser printer to feature vector graphics. Following a long power struggle, Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985.[8]
After leaving Apple, Jobs took a few of its members with him to found NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in state-of-the-art computers for higher-education and business markets. In addition, Jobs helped to initiate the development of the visual effects industry when he funded the spinout of the computer graphics division of George Lucas's Lucasfilm in 1986.[9] The new company, Pixar, would eventually produce the first fully computer-animated film, Toy Story—an event made possible in part because of Jobs's financial support.
In 1997, Apple merged with NeXT. Within a few months of the merger, Jobs became CEO of his former company, reviving Apple at the verge of bankruptcy. Beginning in 1997 with the "Think different" advertising campaign, Jobs worked closely with designer Jonathan Ive to develop a line of products that would have larger cultural ramifications: the iMac, iTunes and iTunes Store, Apple Store, iPod, iPhone, App Store, and the iPad. Mac OS was also revamped into OS X (renamed "macOS" in 2016), based on NeXT's NeXTSTEP platform.
Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003 and died on October 5, 2011, of respiratory arrest related to the tumor.
Steve Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC’s mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa. On January 24, 1984 he introduced the Macintosh to an enthusiastic audience.
However, due to his ”erratic and temperamental” behavior as described by employees at the time, he often faced problems at Apple Computers. He also apparently kept meetings running past midnight and then called new meetings at 7:00 am. On May 24, 1985, Apple’s board removed Jobs from his managerial duties as head of the Macintosh division.
Jobs founded NeXT Computer in 1985, with $7 million. In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm’s computer graphics division for the price of $10 million. The first film produced by the partnership, Toy Story, with Jobs credited as executive producer.
In 1996, Apple announced that it would buy NeXT for $427 million, thus welcoming Steve Jobs back to the company. In 2005 Jobs admitted that being fired from Apple was the best thing that happened to him.
Personal Struggles
Steve Jobs was married to an unmarried couple who gave him up for adoption. He was then adopted by Paul Reinhold Jobs and Clara Jobs. Jobs’ biological parents married and had another baby girl, Mona Simpson. Steve Jobs found out about his blood sister from his biological mother and met Mona Simpson in 1985. They apparently became close friends later on.
Steve Jobs is also known to have visited India after he dropped out from Reed College. He visited the Neem Karoli Baba in search of spiritual enlightenment. He also apparently spent and lot of time in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh.
Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. The visionaries gained fame and wealth a year later for the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers. In 1979, after a tour of PARC, Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto, which was mouse-driven and had a graphical user interface (GUI). This led to development of the unsuccessful Apple Lisa in 1983, followed by the breakthrough Macintosh in 1984. In addition to being the first mass-produced computer with a GUI, the Macintosh introduced the sudden rise of the desktop publishing industry in 1985 with the addition of the Apple LaserWriter, the first laser printer to feature vector graphics. Following a long power struggle, Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985.[8]
After leaving Apple, Jobs took a few of its members with him to found NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in state-of-the-art computers for higher-education and business markets. In addition, Jobs helped to initiate the development of the visual effects industry when he funded the spinout of the computer graphics division of George Lucas's Lucasfilm in 1986.[9] The new company, Pixar, would eventually produce the first fully computer-animated film, Toy Story—an event made possible in part because of Jobs's financial support.
In 1997, Apple merged with NeXT. Within a few months of the merger, Jobs became CEO of his former company, reviving Apple at the verge of bankruptcy. Beginning in 1997 with the "Think different" advertising campaign, Jobs worked closely with designer Jonathan Ive to develop a line of products that would have larger cultural ramifications: the iMac, iTunes and iTunes Store, Apple Store, iPod, iPhone, App Store, and the iPad. Mac OS was also revamped into OS X (renamed "macOS" in 2016), based on NeXT's NeXTSTEP platform.
Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003 and died on October 5, 2011, of respiratory arrest related to the tumor.
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