Steve Jobs

If anyone wants to know about the success of Apple as the largest company in the world then you have to know who the previous figure behind the company. He is Steve Jobs, the most famous personalities behind the stand and the success of Apple. He is known as a pioneer or founder of Apple Computer. Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, United States, February 24, 1955 is CEO of Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak and a leading figure in the computer industry. As founder (with Steve Wozniak) of Apple Computer in 1976, he helped popularize the concept of a computer in a household with the Apple II. Later, he was one of the first to realize the potential for commercializing the graphical user interface (graphical user interface) and mouse developed at Palo Alto Research Center Xerox company, and then the implementation of this technology into the Apple Macintosh.

Jobs also led Pixar, a computer animation company the world's leading big screen. has become a multi-millionaire before the age of 30 years. Starting with the company NeXT

to make the education system at an affordable price, finding that sell software better than just selling hardware.

Life of Steve Jobs

Born in San Francisco by his mother Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali guest student from Syria who became a political science professor. Since baby he adopted Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, Santa Clara County California. Adoptive parents is what gives the name of Steven Jobs. Biological parents later married and gave her sister Mona Simpson is 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 soon after that he and Steve Wozniak soon become 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 released / dropped out after one semester. But he immediately signed to Reed College, one of the things learned here calligraphy. "If I had never taken out of the study is only one half of the current Mac probably would not have had 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 joined together at Atari Inc., a maker of the famous computer game, with a position as a game designer. The motivation then was to collect money for a spiritual retreat to India.

Steve Jobs then traveled to India for spiritual enlightenment with his friend at Reed College, Daniel Kottke, who would later become the first Apple employee. Back from India he became a Buddhist with hair shaved / bald and wearing traditional Indian clothing (monk?). During this time he practiced psychedelics (a kind of meditation in which Jobs are often considered odd, because walking barefoot over this Salju- sort of meditative consciousness). These are the two or three most important things in life he'd ever done in his life.

Start Establishing Apple Computer Company

In 1976, Jobs, then 21, and Wozniak, 26, founded Apple Computer Co. in the Jobs family garage. The first personal computer Jobs and Wozniak introduced the Apple I computer was given the name it is sold at a price of US $ 666.66, as a reference to the phone number of Wozniak's Dial-A-Joke machine, which ends with -6666. In 1977, Jobs and Wozniak introduced the Apple II, which became a huge success in the home market and give Apple a major influence in the personal computer industry is still young. In 1980, Apple Computer became a publicly traded corporation, and with the successful IPO, Jobs' stature rose. Later that year, Apple Computer Apple III release, although success is not as good as before.

Along with the development of Apple Computer, the company began looking for a new leadership to help regulate the development of the company. In 1983, Jobs lured John Sculley from Pepsi-Cola company, to lead Apple Computer, with the challenge, "Do you want to sell carbonated drinks for the rest of your life, or would 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?) Later that year, Apple also issued Apple Lisa whose technology was ahead at that point but failed to win buyers in the market share , 1984 saw the introduction of the Macintosh, the first computer successfully sold into the market by presenting a graphical user interface. Mac development initiated by Jef Raskin and the team has used the technology that has been developed not by Apple, such as at Xerox's PARC, but have not been commercialized. The success of the Macintosh led Apple to abandon the Apple II in favor of the Mac product line, which continues to this day.

Steve Jobs out of Apple Computer Dna Back Again To Apple Computer

Although Jobs was a persuasive and charismatic for Apple, Many consider him as a leader who easily changes his mind and high emotion. In 1985, after an internal leadership problems within Apple, Sculley Jobs dismiss from his post and expelled from Apple.

Once out of Apple, Jobs founded a computer company anymore, NeXT Computer, like Lisa, NeXT was ahead in terms of technology, but never became famous, but 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 magneto-optical devices. In 1996, Apple bought NeXT for US $ 402 million, and brought Jobs back to the company he founded. In 1997 he became Apple's interim CEO after the departure of Gil Amelio.

With the purchase of NeXT, much of the technology from NeXT implemented into Apple products, notably NeXTSTEP, which evolved into Mac OS X. Under Jobs' guidance the company increased sales after the introduction of the iMac. iMac is the first computer sold with emphasis on appearance (although iMac too much use of advanced technologies in it). Since then, an attractive appearance and well-known brands that have benefited Apple.

Lately, Apple began to spread their wings. With the introduction of the iPod portable music instruments, software iTunes, and the iTunes Music Store, the company made a breakthrough in the field of personal electronics and online music. While stimulating innovation, Jobs also reminds his officers that, "genuine artist to fruition," (real artists ship) that intention is, to produce works in a timely manner is as important as product innovation and telling.

Jobs worked at Apple for several years with a salary of US $ 1 / year. Therefore, he was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as "the leader of the company with the lowest salaries" (Lowest Paid Chief Executive Officer). After Apple began to profit resale, the company is releasing his title as interim leader. Apple is currently in the income was US $ 219 million, according to an article written on the Bloomberg site in 2003.

Jobs was greatly admired for his ability to convince people and be a superior salesman, who is often called the reality distortion field and this is evident when he gave keynote speeches at Apple expos. However, his persistence has also been invited unlucky. Violence head may have caused Apple to lose the golden opportunity to become a leader in the field of personal computers. Keenganannya to let other companies make computers compatible with Apple Macintosh must defeat resulted in the capture of existing computer users. Hardware and software company finally decided to adopt the IBM PC platform that uses Microsoft's operating system. Microsoft then also to catch up with Apple by developing 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 founded on what was formerly Lucasfilm's computer graphics division, which Jobs bought from its founder, George Lucas, amounting to US $ 10 million. A decade later, Pixar developed into a well-known and successful with breakthrough movie Toy Story. Since then Pixar had produced films that won the Academy Award that Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. Because of his leadership at Pixar and also kemapanannya at Apple, Jobs is considered by many observers to the entertainment industry one replacement candidate Michael Eisner as head 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 for the work - his work. Starting in 1976 he issued Apples l. Works - his work continues to develop until the last in 2010 he issued iPads had horrendous world.

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