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In the memorial of Steve Jobs...
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We are remembering Steve Jobs, a man who will always live in our hearts, an inspiration for many around the world. People always remember Steve in his modest attire, a black turtleneck and blue jeans.
May his soul rest in peace. |
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Early Life
Steven Paul Jobs (Steve Jobs) was born on February 24, 1955. As an infant, Steven was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs. As a boy, Jobs and his father would work on electronics in the family garage. While Jobs has always been an intelligent and innovative thinker, his youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. After he did enroll in high school, Jobs spent his free time at Hewlett-Packard (HP). It was there that he befriended computer club guru Steve Wozniak. Wozniak was a brilliant computer engineer. |
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After high school, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Lacking directions, he dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes. Jobs later recounted how one course in calligraphy developed his love of typography.
In 1974, Jobs took a position as a video game designer with Atari. Several months later he left Atari to find spiritual enlightenment in India. In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Wozniak started Apple Computers. The duo started in the Jobs family garage, and funded their entrepreneurial venture. |
| Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry by democratizing the technology and making the machine smaller, cheaper, intuitive, and accessible by everyday consumers. The two conceived a series of user-friendly personal computers that they initially marketed for $666.66 each. Their first model, the Apple I, earned them 774,000. Three years after the release of their second model, the Apple II, sales increased 700 percent to $139 million dollars. In 1980, Apple Computer became a publically traded company with a market value of $12 billion on et very first day of trading. |
| Departure from Apple |
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However, the next several products from Apple suffered significant design flaws resulting in recalls and consumer disappointment, and Apple had to compete with an IBM/PC dominated business world. In 1984, Apple released the Macintosh, marketing the computer as a piece of a counter culture lifestyle: romantic, youthful, creative. But despite positive sales and performance superior to IBM’s PC, the Macintosh was still not IBM compatible.
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| In 1985, Jobs resigned as Apple’s CEO to begin a new hardware and software company called NeXT, Inc. The following year Jobs purchased an animation company, which later became Pixar Animation Studios. Pixar Studios went on to produce wildly popular films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. The studio merged with Walt Disney in 2006, making Steve Jobs Disney’s largest shareholder. |
Reinventing Apple
Despite Pixar’s success, NeXT, Inc. floundered in its attempts to sell its specialized operating system to mainstream America. Apple eventually bought the company in 1997 for $429 million. That same year, Jobs returned to his post as Apple’s CEO.
Jobs put Apple back on track. His ingenious products such as the iMac, effective branding campaigns, and stylish designs caught the attention of consumers once again.
Pancreatic Cancer
In 2003, Jobs discovered he had a neuroendocrine tumor, a rare but operable form of pancreatic cancer. In 2004, he had a successful surgery to remove the pancreatic tumor. |
| Personal Life |
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In respect to his personal life, Steve jobs remained a private man who rarely discloses information about his family. What is known is Jobs fathered a daughter with girlfriend Chrisann Brennan when he was 23. Jobs denied paternity of his daughter Lisa in court documents, claiming he was sterile. Jobs did not initiate a relationship with his daughter until she was 7 but, when she was a teenager, she came to live with her father. |
In the early 1990’s Jobs met Laurence Powell at Stanford business school, where Powell was as MBA student. They married on March 18, 1991, and live together in Palo Alto, California, with their three children. |
Some of Steve Jobs ideas and inventions: |
1. Apple I
2. Apple II
3. Apple Lisa
4. Apple Macintosh
5. Apple Mac Plus
6. Mac G4
7. Apple iBook
8. NeXT Computer
9. Pixar Animations
10. iTunes
11. iPod
12. MacBook Pro
13. iPhone
14. MacBook Air
15. iPad |
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Some Inspirational Sayings & Quotes by Steve Jobs. |
- Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
- Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone’s else life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions down out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
- Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
- All external expectation, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know t avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. Your already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Anyone can give up. It’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.
- Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
- If you only do what you know you can do - you never do very much.
- There are no failure - just experiences and your reactions to them.
- I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as making “life”.
- Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” |
Final Years |
| On October 5, 2011, Apple Inc. announced that co-founder Steve Jobs had died. He was 56 years old at the time of his death. |
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| Walid Aridi|Sales Executive |
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