Biography of Steve Jobs

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. One of the founders of Apple Corporation. At first, he went down in history as a person who had committed a revolution in desktop computers, inventing a PC with a graphic interface. Then he turned the music market, invented the iPod and the ITUNES musical application. Finally, thanks to the invention of the iPhone, and then the iPad, Apple's corporation became the leader in the mobile gadget market.

His parents are the Syrian Abdulfatta, John Jandali, a professor of political science, and German Joan Shible, who met at Wisconsin University. Joan's relatives were against this union and threatened to deprive the girl of the inheritance, so she decided to give the child to adopt. The foster mother worked in an accounting company, and his father worked as a mechanic in a company that made laser installations.

When Steve studied in the 7th grade, due to the increased criminogenic situation in the new area, his foster parents were forced to buy a house in a more prosperous Los Altos at the last means. There was only enough money for a modest three-rusty one-story house on Krista Drive Street. Now the building, in which Steve and gathered the first Macintosh, is part of popular tourist routes, and the city itself has become part of Silicon Valley, the most progressive area of ​​the world.

The house in which the childhood of Steve Jobs was held at school Steve was a restless bully, but thanks to the efforts of teacher Mrs. Hill Little Jobs, he began to demonstrate amazing indicators in his studies. So, from the fourth grade, he immediately moved to the sixth grade of secondary school Crithentden. In elementary school, Steve was a restless hooligan in high school, Steve became interested in electronics and made friendship with Bill Fernandez, a boy who separated his interests.

According to Bill, he found a common language with Steve, since he was "a hint, socially non -adapted, smart." Subsequently, Bill became the first Apple employee along with Jobs and Vozniak. In his youth, Steve spent a lot of time in Bill’s house, which his mother arranged in the style of Japanese minimalism. According to Fernandez, it was the design of his house that failed on Jobs's love to minimalism.

In the middle classes, he showed interest in electronics at the age of 13 Jobs called President Hewlett-Packard William Hughlett home. The boy collected an electrical appliance, and he needed some details. Hughlett spoke with the boy for 20 minutes, agreed to send everything he needed and offered to work in his company in the summer. Steve attended extracurricular lectures at the HP branch for a long time.

Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak Education and the first steps after school Jobs entered the college of Read Portland, Oregon, but soon abandoned him, as the training was too expensive. For a short time, Steve managed to get acquainted with Daniel Kotta, who became his best friend. He received an offer from Hewlett-Packard and accepted it. At work, Jobs met with the namesake of Steve Vozniak, with whom he entered his name in history.

In parallel, Jobs was fond of the art of calligraphy. There was no practical benefit from classes, Steve simply rested his soul, taking out neat letters with a pen. But 10 years later, calligraphy came in handy when Jobs created fonts for his first computer. It is believed that it was the fonts of the first macintosh that formed the basis of modern fonts for personal computers.

Steve Jobs in his youth in February returned to California, where his friend and technical genius Vozniak called Jobs to work as a technician at Atari, who engaged in the production of games, for example, the famous Pong Arcada. From the student of Stephen, the hippie subculture was interested in, and later his mind was captured by the concept of Zen Buddism, so after six months of work on Atari he went to India.

The journey was not easy: Jobs was ill with dysentery, lost 15 kilograms. Later, on a trip to him, Kotta joined him, and together they went in search of a guru and spiritual enlightenment. Years later, Steve admitted that he went to India to allow internal experiences caused by the fact that biological parents abandoned him. The legendary speech of Steve Jobs before the graduates of Stanford University in the year Jobs returned to Los-altos and Atari, as a shortest possible time to create an electric circuit for the Breakout video game.

Steve had to minimize the number of chips on the board, for the elimination of each of which was supposed to be a reward in dollars. Jobs convinced Wozniak that he could do work in 4 days, although such work usually took several months. As a result, Jobs coped, and Wozniak gave him a check for dollars, the council that Atari paid him instead of real received a large amount at that time, Jobs quit his job.

The creation of Apple Steve was 20 years old when Wozniak showed him a computer of his own production and convinced his friend to make computers for sale. It all started with the production of printed circuits, but in the end, young people came to assembly of computers.Stephen Wozniak convinced Steve Jobs to create a PC for sale in the year, he took engineer Bill Fernandez in the company, he left the company 18 months after considering it hopeless and the drawing of Ronald Wayne.

For starting capital, Jobs sold his minibus, and a wizard - a programmable calculator. In total it turned out dollars. Friends also were engaged in the fact that they sold equipment for hacking telephone networks to freezers, predecessors of computer hackers. For hacking, a sound source with the frequency of HZ was required. Using ordinary children's whistles, the former US Air Force radio operator John Draper invented a gadget, among the people, a “blue box”, which made the necessary sound and allowed to get a free intercity call.

Jobs and Wozniak went to the dripper and sold his invention, thereby earned an amount sufficient to create the first batch of computers, but Draper was not lucky - he was imprisoned. The first computer of Steve Jobs cost two Steve convinced the owner that their computer knew no equal: he knew how to display data at the same time as their entry, it was also assumed that he would supply in a fully assembled form, ready to work.

The technical genius of Wozniak and Jobs's oratory skills convinced the owner of the store to order 50 computers. The start of the purchase of details for such a large batch had no money. So Steve attracted all friends. In the garage of his parental house, he arranged a workshop where they sold, collected, staffed. According to eyewitnesses, Jobs proved himself as a strict leader. He never raised his voice only on Steve Vozniak.

A month later, in July, the first batch of computers called Apple I entered the store, each of which was worth Steve Jobs, John Scully and Stephen Wozniak the first mass computer in the world from IBM appeared in the same year when Wozniak completed work on Apple II, so Jobs ordered the beginning of the advertising campaign and the creation of beautiful packaging with the logo to the logo.

Go around competitors. The new Apple computers scattered around the world with a circulation of 5 million copies. As a result, at the age of 25, Steve Jobs became a millionaire. He immediately caught fire with the idea of ​​creating a PC with an interface that would allow the commands to give a cursor. Then the Lisa computer was developed, named after Steve Jobs's daughter.

The inventor was going to introduce all Xerox developments and head the project of an innovative computer, but his colleagues Mark Markulla, who invested more than thousands of dollars in Apple, and Scott Forstal reorganized the company and removed Jobs. In the year, Steve Jobs began work on the Macintosh project in the year of the computer interfaces specialist Jef Raskin and Jobs began work on a new project - a portable machine that was supposed to be folded into a miniature suitcase.

Raskin named the Macintosh project in honor of his favorite apple variety. Stephen Jobs was a demanding and tough boss, already then Stephen was a demanding and tough boss; working under his leadership was not easy. Numerous conflicts with Jeff have led to the fact that the latter was sent on vacation, and later dismissed. A little later, disagreements forced to leave the corporation and John Scully, and in the year - Wozniak.

Then Steve founded Next, which worked in the field of hardware. In the year, Jobs stood at the helm of the Pixar animation studio in the year, Jobs stood at the helm of the Pixar animation studio, which released many world -famous cartoons, for example, “Monster Corporation” and “The History of toys”. In the year, Steve sold his brainchild Walt Disney, but remained in the Council of Directors and became a shareholder of Disney with 7 percent of the shares.

So Steve returned to work after many years of detachment and became the manager of the company, entering the board of directors. In the year, Jobs got into the Guinness Book of Records as an executive director with the most modest wage - $ 1 a year. Presentation of the first iPhone. When the world has changed forever the revolution in the world of gadgets in the year Steve introduced the first Apple player called iPod.

Later, the sale of this product brought the company the main income, since the MP3 player became the fastest and most spacious player of that time. The very first ipod of the first ipod was, firstly, the sensory wheel of scrolling, which at that time was an extraordinary innovation, and secondly, the player was supplied with a 5 or 10 gigabyte memory. The slogan of the new product sounded: “A thousand songs in your pocket!

The evolution of the iPod has since been released every year, and with each generation the amount of memory has increased. In the year, the player had a color screen, and in the year he got the opportunity to lose the video. The new iPod Classic line was published, which has been distinguished by a particularly large amount of memory - a gigabyte of music, photo and video could be loaded into the most roomy iPod.

Not every personal computer could boast of such a hard drive.In parallel from the year, Apple released the iPod mini later transformed into the iPod Nano and the superportive IPod Shuffle, which lost the screen. In the year, the iPhone sensor mobile phone appeared on sale. It was far from the first phone with a touch screen. For example, Ericksson released his first phone with a sensor already a year, long before the merger with Sonya.

In the year, Philips released a model with a screen responding to a stylus. Three years before the first iPhone of Nokia, at that time the flagship in the market of mobile devices, introduced the traffic jam on the basis of Symbian OS. The first iPhone appeared in stores in the summer of the year iPhone, which was published in June and retroactively receiving the iphone 2G marking, had a very responsive sensor, the ability to connect to wireless networks, and not one of the competitive models could boast of the same thin and smooth design.

The iPhone had enough flaws, for example, he did not support the 3G networks, but there was a separate OS that allowed to pump applications from the App Store store. Steve Jobs subtly felt that the buyer of the iPhone 2G needed the beginning of the death of button phones and the world of smartphonomania. Since then, the new iPhone traditionally comes out every year, as a rule, in the fall and, despite the high cost compared to competitors, stably holds the sales bar.

And already in the year, Apple demonstrated the thinnest laptop on the planet MacBook Air. However, Stephen's ability to convince the buyer that he needs this product, the tablet was raised to 15 million copies a year. Subsequently, a reduced version of the iPad mini was released, and in the year, alas, already without Stephen Jobs, sales of the iPad Pro, a tablet with an increased diagonal of the screen began.

The developing market for mobile applications made an iPad full, and in many cases more convenient replacement of the laptop. Today on the iPad you can write music, make notes, draw, design and much more. Steve Jobs and his 10 rules of success, Jobs subtly felt what the buyer needed, so he sought to create a miniature machine that could satisfy any whim of a modern user.