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Explore the remarkable journey of Steve Jobs from his humble beginnings to co-founding Apple and revolutionizing the tech industry with iconic products like the Macintosh and iPhone.
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Steve jobs THE GENIUS BEHIND APPLE
The beginning of STEVE JOBS • STEVE JOBS was born on December 24th, 1995 in San Francisco, California, USA, and was adopted by Paul and Clara jobs. When Steve jobs was two, he was joined by an adopted sister Patrica, seeking more space for their growing family. In 1961 Steve jobs and his family moved to mountain view, California. This area was becoming the center for electronics. At that time people also call this area as “Silicon Valley”. This is because a substance silicon is used for the manufacturing of electronics part. As child jobs always like to do thing by himself. When he was a child he never showed interest in playing or any other group activities while he gets more early interest in electronics part. He attended his middle school at Cupertino and high school in homestead in Cupertino. He spent a lot of time in working with garage workshop of a neighbor who worked at Hewlett-Packard, an electronic manufacturer. While in high school jobs also attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard plant. Later job was hired to work for Hewlett-Packard company with Steve Woznick as a summer employee, later they founded apple computer co as a partnership on april1 ,1976. • After graduating from high school in 1972, job attended reed college in Portland, for two-year program.
HISTORY OF APPLE: • The company apple has an interesting history that make everyone think how this company grown so big and popular. We all know that two person has the important role in making the company so famous, we don’t know that apple may not be famous where a man named Ronald Wayne as a friend of the two technological giants jobs and wozniak. • The meeting of this two giants is through a friend of jobs bill Fernandez, who is one of the earliest employees in apple.jobs and Woz become friend so fast that they had no time talk about their family, they like share their knowledge on tech. Blue boxes is the first thing that was made by this two, this tech made long distance calls free. Atari arcade game is the game created by this two.jobs had made help to reduce the size of the game that is created by the wozniak.jobs managed to get a good bonus for the work on breakout, of which he gave a small account to Woz. From their own words the new era of apple has started.
Contribution to the world APPLE I • Apple computer company’s first product is Apple 1, designed and hand-built by MR. Steve Wozniak and introduced before public at Homebrew computer club. The Apple 1 went sale on July 1976 and cost $666.66. It was sold as a motherboard which was less than what is considered as a complete computer.
Apple ii • The Apple II was introduced in 1977 which was a major technological advancement for the company. It was also invented by Wozniak. It was entirely different from its major rivals. The TSR-80 and commodore PET, because of its character cell-based color graphics and open architecture. While early Apple II models used ordinary cassette tapes as storage devices, they were superseded by the introduction of a 5 1⁄4-inch floppy disks drive and interface called the Disk II. The Apple II was chosen to be a desktop for the first “killer app” of VisiCalc, a spreadsheet program. VisiCalc created a business market for the Apple II and gave home users an additional reason to buy an Apple II: compatibility with the office.
MACINTOSH • The Macintosh, released in 1984, was the first mass-market personal computer that featured an integral graphical user interface and mouse. Apple launched the Macintosh as the first personal computer to be sold without a programming language. It initially sold well, but follow-up sales were not strong because of its high price and limited range of software titles. However, its fortunes changed with the introduction of the LaserWriter, the first postscript laser printer, and PageMaker. The Macintosh was particularly powerful in the desktop publishing market due to its advanced graphics capabilities, which had necessarily been built in to create the intuitive Macintosh GUI.
PENLITE • Penlite was apple’s first tablet computer, made in 1992, this project was to bring the Mac OS to a tablet. Apple also experimented several other products like digital cameras, portable CD, speakers… Unfortunately, none of these products help them to get rid of from their problems. But the penlite help them to step to the next level which gave them a better result.
MACINTOSH 128K • Apple introduced a new all-in -one computer reminiscent of the Macintosh 128k: iMac. The iMac design team was led by Ive, who would later design the iPod and the iPhone. The iMac featured modern technology and a unique design and sold almost 800,000 units in its first five months. The Macintosh 128k was introduced on August 15, 1998. • The MacBook pro Apple’s first laptop with an intel microprocessor, introduced in 2006. The new MacBook pro and the iMac became the first apple computers to use intel’s Core Duo CPU. Now MacBook is one of the best laptops in the world which provide contain good quality and brand.
iPod • On October 23, 2001, Apple introduced the iPod digital music player. Several updated models have since been introduced, and the iPod brand is now the market leader in portable music players by a significant margin.
iPhone • the first generation of iPhone, 3G,4,5,5C. these products increase the profit of Apple company. At macworld conference & expo in January 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the long-anticipated iPhone, a convergence of an Internet-enabled smartphone and iPod. The first-generation iPhone was released on June 29, 2007, for $499 (4 GB) and $599 (8 GB) with an AT&T contract. On February 5, 2008, it was updated to have 16 GB of memory, in addition to the 8 GB and 4 GB models.
ipad • On January 27, 2010, Apple introduced their much-anticipated media tablet, the iPad. It offers multi-touch interaction with multimedia formats including newspapers, e-books, photos, videos, music, word processing documents, video games, and most existing iPhone apps using a 9.7-inch screen. It also includes a mobile version of safari for web browsing, as well as access to the App Store, iTunes Library, iBook store, Contacts, and Notes. Content is downloadable via wi-fi and optional 3G service or synced through the user's computer. AT&T was initially the sole U.S. provider of 3G wireless access for the iPad.
Apple watch • The original Apple Watch smartwatch was announced by Tim Cook on September 9, 2014, being introduced as a product with health and fitness-tracking. It was released on April 24, 2015. • The second generation of Apple Watch, Apple watch series 2 was released in September 2016, featuring greater water resistance, a faster processor, and brighter display.
Apple tv • At the 2007 Macworld conference, Jobs demonstrated the Apple TV a set-top video device intended to bridge the sale of content from iTunes with high-definition televisions. • In September 2009, Apple discontinued the original 40 GB Apple TV and now continues to produce and sell the 160 GB Apple TV. On September 1, 2010, Apple released a completely redesigned Apple TV. The new device is 1/4 the size, runs quieter, and replaces the need for a hard drive with media streaming from any iTunes library on the network along with 8 GB of flash memory to cache media downloaded. Like the iPad and the iPhone, Apple TV runs on an A4 processor. The memory included in the device is half of that in the iPhone 4 at 256 MB; the same as the iPad, iPhone 3GS, third and fourth-generation iPod Touch.
Home pod • Apple's first smart speaker, the Home pod was released on February 9th, 2018 after being delayed from its initial December 2017 release. It also features 7 tweeters in the base, a four-inch woofer in the top, and six microphones for voice control and acoustic optimization.
Quality's of Steve jobs • He is not doing it for money. Being let go from apple in 1985 and he had rejoined the company in 1997 and has a salary of $1. even though Steve is known for his wealth, he has invested a huge amount of money in apple and Disney. he has a famous quote saying that “I never did it for money. according to securities and exchange commission filings Steve has a total compensation of $1 in a 2010. • He always been an inspiration to other. He has always inspired a lot of student from their younger ages. his company has always been a great place for opportunities for the upcoming generations to look the jobs. His company has always been the right platform for the other companies to grow their business and has always helped them in their way
Being a visionary. He and his research team has always been there other large multinational companies who work the same field has always tried to defeated Steve’s works. The main reason behind is that when he tries to do a job he will focus on that work until it is crystal clear like glass and it should not be copied by the other companies. lots of people says that Steve has a sixth sense to know what is needed for the upcoming years and he will start to develop that technology before its needed.Steve has always boosted the employment. according to SEC filling in 1997 apple has a worldwide of 8437 as the regular employees and has a part time worker of 1739. As apple record of workers Now it has gradually increased to 46000 full time employers and 2800-part time employers.This is what that makes Steve that he is known and famous. he likes to live simple and free from tension. he like to give high technological knowledge to others where they can use them and for the society. He has always been a great teacher and an inventor.
conclusion • Steve jobs the greatest mastermind behind the development of apple and as always been a inspiration to the young students who is looking forward to his famous works