Love For Electronic
•Jobs met Steve Wozniak shortly after they both left school while working for Hewlett-Packard(惠普） •“Woz” was an incredibly talented engineer, especially in electronic gadgets •While developing a “blue box” device, Jobs convinced Woz to sell it to Berkeley students.
After the failure of the Apple III and Lisa, Jobs built The Macintosh to compete with the IBM PC.
As sales of the Macintosh took off, CEO John Sculley thought that Jobs was hurting Apple’s success, and gradually forced Jobs to leave.
Marriages
Laurene Powell married Steve Jobs on March 18, 1991 .
Children/Family Life
•Jobs and his then girlfriend had a daughter. •three more children with his wife , Laurene. •Steve Jobs has a sister named Mona Simpson
Interesting Facts
• Jobs bought the first set of suit when he was 22 years old.
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The company was name apple in part because apples are his favorite fruit.
Education
•Graduated high school in 1972 •Enrolled in Reed College in Oregon, studied Poetry, Literature, and Physics •After one semester, Jobs dropped out of school •Slept on his friends dorm room floor and dropped in on classes of interest
Problems
Jobs continued to innovate in recent years even as he battled severe health problems that prompted leaves of absence from Apple. In 2004, he beat back an unusual form of pancreatic cancer, and in 2009 he was forced to get a liver transplant. After several years of failing health, Jobs announced on Aug. 24, 2011 that he was stepping down as Apple's chief executive
cancer
Accomplishments
• • • • In 1985, received a grant from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Medal of National Technology. In 2007,was the greatest businessman of the year Jobs IPad, IPod, ITunes store, IPhone, and many other wellknown digital products ......
Founded NeXT
• Apple did very poorly in the early and mid 90’s, brought on by poor leadership and stagnating computer design. • NeXT’s a great success with it beautiful design • The late Mac OX operating system is based on NeXT
Important People
Steve's father Paul helped turn him into a perfectionist
Bill Gates was Jobs's ultimate rival
Robert Noyce was a father figure early to Jobs as Apple was getting off the ground
The story of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs
Childhood Born in 1955 ,in San Francisco
•Put up for adoption a week after birth •Adoption was finalized under the condition that Steven would attend college
ExpeHewlettPackard In 1976, formed Apple computer Company In 1985, left Apple company and founded NeXT
Leave Apple
1981, IBM finally entered the personal computer market, and in just two years began to outsell Apple.