Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco on
February 24th 1955 his parents were
unmarried at the time
Steve's biological father was from Syria
and since Steve's mother's father did
not approve of his daughter marrying a
Syrian she put Steve up for adoption
Steve was adopted by Paul and Clara jobs
at the age of five Steve's family moved
to the Silicon Valley there his father
built from his own workbench and taught
him the basics of electronics how to
build things on his own later Steve met
his neighbor and electronics hobbyists
that introduced him to the Heath kits
they were unassembled basic electronic
devices that the user would construct
with the use of a manual as a guide as a
teenager Steve Cole called Bill Hewlett
a man that Steve looked up to he managed
to not only secure parts from HP but to
also acquire a summer job assembling
parts during the summer before Steve's
summer year he was introduced to Steve
Wozniak or woz as he was called walls
and Steve started off by building an
advanced digital blue box device that
allowed people to trick phones into
providing free servers by emitting
certain frequencies Stephen walls turned
the device into their first business by
selling to college students the cost for
each blue box was about $40 and they
were sold for 150 of course the blue box
of Isis were illegal and eventually
Steve decided they didn't want to risk
getting caught so we stopped production
in 1972 Steve enrolled in college and
then dropped out in the same year
according to him he didn't see the value
in it he didn't know what he wanted to
do with his life and he didn't see how
College was going to help him in college
was also consuming all this parents
savings Steve took a job as a technician
at Terry Inc working for $5 an hour
Steve saved up enough money to travel to
India he returns from India as a
Buddhist he spattered a shaved head and
was wearing additional Indian clothing
during this time Steve experimented with
LSD which he later credited as a major
reason for his success
Steven woz begin attending the humm brew
Computer Club which was started to get
people together to make confused
accessible for everyone it was because
of this they learned about the net Intel
and Motorola processor chips this
resulted in walls trying to design his
own machine around chip which then
turned into Steve and Hwa starting Apple
in 1976 Ronald Wayne was a third founder
of Apple and the person who came up with
the first Apple logo but he left early
on the Apple computers grew in
popularity very quickly by 1979 the
Apple 2 had made the company 139 million
dollars in sales
1981 they went pub
1983 Steve convinced the CEO of Pepsi
Cola John Sculley to leave and fill the
CEO position cutout 1984 Apple released
its famous 1984 Superbowl commercial
which introduced the Macintosh which
became the first commercially successful
small computer with a graphical user
interface an industry wide sales slumped
near the end of 1984 resulted in a
deterioration between the working
relationship of Steve Jobs and John
Sculley a power struggle ensued which
resulted in a Steve Jobs being removed
from his managerial duties and then him
resigning from Apple five months later
in 1985 after he left he found a next
computer in 1985 with 7 million a leader
attracted attention from Ross Perot
invested 20 million in the company
although the one many next computers
sold the company was not a failure and
parts of the operating system went on to
be used in iTunes and Mac OSX
in 1986 Steve purchased Pixar from
George Lucas for five million Pixar Jean
turned out is a high-end computer
hardware company the computers didn't
sell well to compensate for this Pixar
started creating animation for outside
companies Pixar made a deal with Walt
Disney to produce three computer
animated feature films first one being
Toy Story Steve considered selling Pixar
to Microsoft as late at 1994 after
having sunk over 60 million of his own
money to the company once Disney
confirmed the distribution deal on Toy
Story he decided to give another chance
the film ended up grossing over 350
million at Pixar went public in 1995
making Steve Jobs an instant billionaire
Apple acquired next for 430 million in
1996 and the year after Steve Jobs
returned to Apple as an advisor and
became chief executive again in 2000
Steve significantly increased sales by
introducing the iMac an entire computer
system contained in a CRT display Steve
bought Apple into the digital music
business by introducing iTunes and then
the iPod mp3 player On June 29 2007
Apple entered into the cellular phone
business by introducing the iPhone and
2003 Steve was diagnosed with the tumor
located in his pancreas instead of going
with a normal medical treatment he opted
to go with an alternative medicine died
before eventually going through a
procedure that appeared to successfully
remove the tumor in August of 2006 Steve
delivered the Apple keynote at WWDC his
gaunt appearance resulted in speculation
about his health despite an apple
spokesperson claiming the Steve's health
was our bust on August 28th 2008
Bloomberg mistakingly published an
obituary of Steve he responded by
quoting Mark Twain with reports of my
death are greatly exaggerated in April
2009 Steve underwent a liver transplant
and on January 17 2011 Apple on
that Steve Jobs a 10-grand and medical
leave and it Tim Cook would be running
apples day-to-day operations while Steve
would still be involved in major
decisions at the company Steve Jobs made
his last on stage Apple appearance at
the WWDC keynote version six that
introduced iCloud on August 24 2011
Steve Jobs stepped down from Apple
stating that he could no longer meet his
duties and expectations as Apple's CEO
Steve Jobs died in his California home
at age 56 on October 5th 2011 due to
complications from his relapse of his
previously treated pancreatic cancer the
announcement of his death resulted in a
massive response from the online media
world over 10,000 tweets per second were
sent discussing his death the biggest
online reaction of any event in history
he might not like Steve Jobs as a person
or care for his Apple products but
there's no denying the fact that he was
a visionary and that his ideas have
changed the world
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