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Steve Jobs: Early Life and Apple History

Steve Jobs spent much of his early life in California, where he was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He developed an interest in electronics from a young age while working with his father in their garage. Jobs befriended Steve Wozniak in high school and they later co-founded Apple Computer in 1976. Some of Apple's most influential products under Jobs' leadership included the Apple II, Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. After being ousted from Apple, Jobs went on to found NeXT which was later acquired by Apple.

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Steve Jobs: Early Life and Apple History

Steve Jobs spent much of his early life in California, where he was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He developed an interest in electronics from a young age while working with his father in their garage. Jobs befriended Steve Wozniak in high school and they later co-founded Apple Computer in 1976. Some of Apple's most influential products under Jobs' leadership included the Apple II, Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. After being ousted from Apple, Jobs went on to found NeXT which was later acquired by Apple.

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Steve Jobs

One of Apple’s Founders


how his life was growing up
➔ Parents were Paul and Clara- adopted Jobs's sister Patricia in 1957 and the family moved to mountain view,
California in 1961

➔ During that time Paul built a workbench in his garage for his son in order to "pass along his love of
mechanics.”

➔ Jobs admired his father’s work: “he knew how to build anything”

➔ Steve wanted to spend time with his father, he would do that by working

with his dad

➔ By the time he was ten, Jobs was deeply involved in electronics and

befriended a lot of the engineers who lived in the neighborhood.

➔ with that said, it was hard for Jobs to make any other friends, he was

seen as a “loner”
Steve Jobs Early life
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● Born in California on February 24,1955-October 5,2011 K
● As a baby he was adopted
● Adopted parents were Clara and Paul Jobs
● Jobs spent most of his time messing with electronics when he
was younger
● Elementary was hard because he couldn’t focus
● Tested so well in elementary, administrators wanted to skip
him to high school.
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High School life &


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❖ Went to Homestead High School
❖ There he met his future partner Steve Wozniak (Founders of
Apple) who would later invent the first personal computer
together
❖ Known for trying to make things simple - this later comes up
in his contributions to the computing world
❖ It was hard for Steve Jobs to make friends
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Later on in life &


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● Attended Harvard but later dropped to continue business

● Some people describe Stevo as “ a dictator and rude”

● Steve Jobs biggest competition was Bill Gates

● Gates & Jobs got a lot of attention from this fight

● Jobs finds out who his biological parents were

● Died from pancreatic cancer -Cancer in the Pancreas- in 2011


● Experimented with psychedelic drugs
history of company
● They began their partnership when Wozniak, a talented, self-educated electronics
engineer, began constructing boxes which enabled one to make long-distance
phone calls at no cost, and sold several hundred models.
● After High School Jobs went to college…..for about six months and then dropped
out, he was a little “directionless”
● For 18 months Jobs got involved with creative classes where he realized he enjoyed
typography
● In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari
● At 21 years old Steve Jobs & Wozniak started Apple Computer inc.

● Apple started in a garage and progressed to a whole business


History of Apple Computers
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Apple created many computers and accessories, but the main


products are as follows:

-Apple I(1976) The first computer created by Apple, and Steve


Jobs’ first product… not a huge success (some major assembly
required)

-Apple II(1977) The next big innovation was the first real
success of the company as it appealed to hackers/coders, as well
as many schools and offices. (less major assembly required)

-Apple III(1981-1984)Apple Lisa(1983), Macintosh(1984),


History of Apple Computers 2
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-Next came… NeXT(1900) Steve was kicked out of the company,


started a different company called NeXT, which didn’t go so well…
Apple later bought NeXT so that Apple could use NeXT’s
software… and use Steve

-iMac(1998),

-iPod(2001),

-iPhone(2007)

-ipad(2010)
Contribution At First Sight
● Unseen to the public
● Needed external parts such as case
● First computer by Steve Jobs and Wozniak
● Contributed the first household computer
● This was the key to bigger and brighter things in apple’s
future

(Apple I)
Contribution To the Apple product 2
● When the company was established the two moved on from the
Apple one and created the Apple two
● A computer that instead of the older brother of it was
more convenient to the public due to the fact that
everything was included.
● Apple one users would have to purchase and connect things
like the keyboard separately.
● This wasn’t a big deal for the new apple II

(Apple II)
The Contribution To The Apple III
After the apple two, Apple made the... Apple 3 the next big
thing with technology at the time.

● The big difference between the two computers was that this one
had evolved differently.
● Instead of processing power it was all about looks which it
had on its side.

(Apple III)
Contribution to the Apple Macintosh
● The Computer that apple made after jobs returned to apple.
● large successor to the Apple II
● Raked in large amounts of money
● Ran the neXt software at a discounted price from the original.
● different to the original computers of apple
● The most important computer in the tech world due to the fact
that it was different to most computers at the time.
Mac os X
● This was apple's first software
● Only ran on their products
● Was a huge contribution to tech because the really main
software was microsoft
● Closest version was neXt
● GUI

550 × 413 - desura.com


Contribution to NeXT
● In 1985 Jobs sold his shares of Apple stock
● Later that year launched the NeXT Computer Co., which was made
in the goal of making a computer that could provide higher
research and education.
● In 1988 the NeXT computer included notably fast processing
speeds, exceptional graphics and an optical disk drive.
● At the price of $9,950 was too expensive for the customers to
buy the product.
How Steve jobs changed the world
-Steve Jobs helped create one of the first user friendly
desktop computers

-Steve Jobs created the iphone-a major change in cell phones

-Apple is one of the most profitable companies today

-As long as you’re in a room with at least 2 teenagers,


there’s going to be at least 3 Apple/Jobs products in that
room.
Citation
● "Steve Jobs: An Extraordinary Career." Entrepreneur. N.p., 08 Oct. 2008. Web. 05 Oct. 2015.

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● Geeks.com/macintosh

● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_III
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● Wikipedia.com/

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