Стив Джобс (24 февраля 1955 – 5 октября 2011) - американский предприниматель, получивший широкое признание в качестве пионера эры IT-технологий. Один из основателей, председатель совета директоров и CEO корпорацииApple. Один из основателей и CEO киностудии Pixar.
Стив Джобс и Стив Возняк
Еще с детства увлекался электроникой, собирая в гараже радиоприемники со своим приемным отцом. Будучи учеником школы Стив познакомился с парнем старше его на 5 лет по имени Стив Возняк и обрел лучшего друга. Вместе в недалеком будущем они создадут известную сейчас на весь мир компанию Apple.
Одной из первых работ молодых компаньонов были BlueBox или Голубая Коробочка. Изобретение позволяло звонить по телефону в любую точку Земли совершенно бесплатно. Коробка хорошо раскупалась, но занятие было не совсем законным. Именно тогда Джобс понял, что электроника может приносить не только удовольствие, но и деньги.
Пять лет спустя друзья и еще несколько вовлеченных в авантюру ребят основали компанию под названием Apple. В гараже родительского дома Стив Джобс со своей новоиспеченной командой собирали и в последствии продавали компьютеры. Так в обычном гараже дома Силиконовой Долины зарождалась революция в мире компьютерных технологий. В конце 70-х компанией Apple был создан первый коммерчески успешный персональный компьютер.
Стив с детства был неравнодушен к дизайну, он был перфекционист, стремился довести каждую деталь своих изобретений до идеала, хотя сам по себе был не опрятен. Чаще под руководством Джобса в компании ставился приоритет дизайнерской работы над инженерной. Не важно насколько мощный и современный компьютер, если он не красивый и не располагает к себе людей.
В 2000-х годах изобретатель Стив Джобс становится одним из основателей анимационной студии Pixar. Под его руководством студия выпускает известные фильмы, как «История Игрушек», «Пираты Карибского моря 2», «Корпорация монстров» и д.р. Forbes оценивал его чистые активы в размере 5,1 миллиарда долларов в 2009 году, что делает его 43-м в рейтинге самых богатых американцев.
Статуя Стива Джобса в Будапеште. Венгрия
В октябре 2003 года у Джобса был диагностирован рак поджелудочной железы. В середине 2004 года он объявил сотрудникам Apple о болезни. Прогноз развития этой формы рака, как правило, крайне неблагоприятен, однако у Джобса оказался очень редкий, поддающийся оперативному лечению тип заболевания, известный как нейроэндокринная опухоль островковой клетки. Джобс в течение девяти месяцев отказывался пройти операцию, так как не хотел, чтобы его тело вскрывали, о чём позже сожалел. Он пытался препятствовать болезни средствами нетрадиционной медицины: пробовал веганскую диету, иглоукалывание, траволечение, даже обращался к медиуму. В июле 2004 года Джобс согласился на операцию, в ходе которой опухоль была успешно удалена, но в то же время были выявлены метастазы в печени. Джобс объявил, что излечился от рака, а сам втайне начал проходить химиотерапию.
Постепенно состояние и внешний вид Джобса начали ухудшаться. 5 октября 2011 года в своём доме в Калифорнии Стив Джобс скончался из-за осложнений, которые привели к остановке дыхания. Он умер в окружении близких: жены, детей и сестры.
Jobs is a co-founder of Apple, the man behind the astonishing success of the computer animation firm Pixar - a billionaire regarded as a visionary in the industry. Born to an Egyptian father nd an American mother in Green Bay, Wisconsin, 49 years ago, Steven Paul was adopted soon after his birth by Paul and Clara Jobs, who lived in Mountain View in Santa Clara, California.
After completing high school in California, Jobs went north to Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but dropped out after one term. Back in California, he became a regular at the Homebrew Computer Club, along with another young man, five years his senior, with his own visions of the future - Steve Wozniak.
In 1976, when Jobs was 21, he and Wozniak started their own business, the Apple Computer Company, in Job"s family garage. With a mission to produce affordable personal computers, the pair went to the market with Apple 1 shortly afterwards. A local company ordered 25 of the prototype and the pair were on their way. The almost instant success of Apple 1 and its sister Apple 2 launched them. By the age of 25 Jobs was worth $165m.
Apple was the first landmark in Job"s career but by 1985 he was on his way out after John Sculley, who had joined the company from Pepsi-Cola decided it was time to drop the pilot. Four years later Jobs returned with another computer company, NextStep, which never achieved the success of Apple but reminded people he was far from finished.
What was later hailed as Job"s second coming started with the involvement with Pixar, the animation company he bought from the Star Wars director, George Lucas, and renamed. The hit movie Toy Story instantly established it as one of the key players in Hollywwod, a success only added to with the release of Finding Nemo. Pixar made Jobs a billionairre. His triumph there also reminded people of his ability to predict the technological future. Apple asked him to return. He came back in 1997 and within a year the ailing company was once more making handsome profits.
His latest venture may turn out to be the most influential . Since the emergence of high-speed Internet the music industry has complained that it"s being brought to its knees by the pirates of downloading. The dream of hundreds of companies has been a way to harness the desire for music on the Internet and turn it into profit. Jobs believes that iTunes is the answer. But then Jobs doesn"t believe in underselling his companies. "This will go down in history as the turning point for the music industry," he told Fortune magazine at the launch of iTunes in the US. Journalists who have been following Job"s career have also seen another side of his personality when he has walked out of interviews, irritated at the time of questioning and refusing intrusions into his personal life. He is not known for his patience.
"We can"t have a heroic figure without a fatal flaw, was the assessment of David Plotikoff, writing a profile earlier this year in local paper." Jobs exudes arrogance of a certain blastfurnace intensity that people find hard to overlook. With Jobs it was never enough to say"We"re right on this and they are wrong." No, it was always "We"re right on this and they are idiots." But Plotnikoff added: " There is simply no way the Mac could have been born without that supreme confidence."
If there has been a theme to Job"s success it has been his genius for finding other geniuses and promoting their brilliance.
Стив Джобс – американский бизнесмен, талантливый руководитель, сооснователь , ее идейный вдохновитель, директор и председатель совета директоров. До 2006 года был директором (СЕО) анимационной студии Pixar (Пиксар), именно Стив Джобс дал ей это название.
Краткая биография
Стив Джобс (полное имя – Стивен Пол Джобс ) родился 24 февраля 1955 года в Сан-Франциско, США, Калифорния. Его биологическая мать – Джоан Шибле . Биологический отец – Абдулфаттах Джандали .
Стивен родился у незарегистрированных в браке студентов. Отец Джоан был против их отношений и пригрозил лишить свою дочь наследства, если она не разорвет их. Именно поэтому будущая мать Стива уехала рожать в Сан-Франциско и отдала сына на усыновление.
Приемные родители
Джоан выставила условия для усыновления: приемные родители Стивена должны были быть обеспеченными и иметь высшее образование. Однако семья Джобсов, которая не могла иметь своих детей, не обладала вторым критерием. Поэтому будущие приемные родители дали письменное обязательство оплатить обучение мальчика в колледже .
Мальчик был усыновлён Полом Джобсом и Кларой Джобс , урождённой Агопян (американка армянского происхождения). Именно они дали ему имя Стивен Пол .
Джобс всегда считал Пола и Клару отцом и матерью, он очень раздражался, если кто-то называл их приёмными родителями:
«Они - мои настоящие родители на 100 %»
Согласно правилам официального усыновления, биологические родители ничего не знали о местонахождении сына, и Стивен Пол встретился с родной матерью и младшей сестрой только через 31 год .
Обучение в школе
Школьные занятия разочаровали Стива своим формализмом. Преподаватели начальной школы Мона-Лома характеризовали его как проказника, и только одна учительница, миссис Хилл , смогла увидеть в своём ученике незаурядные способности и найти к нему подход.
Когда Стив обучался в четвёртом классе, миссис Хилл давала ему за хорошую учёбу «взятки», в виде сладостей, денег и наборов «сделай сам», тем самым стимулируя его обучение.
Это быстро принесло плоды: вскоре Стив Пол начал прилежно учиться без всякого подкрепления, а в конце учебного года настолько блистательно сдал экзамены, что директор предложил перевести его из четвёртого класса сразу в седьмой . В результате по решению родителей Джобс был зачислен в шестой класс, то есть в среднюю школу.
Дальнейшее обучение
Оканчивая школу, Стив Джобс принял решение подать документы в колледж Рид в Портленде, штат Орегон. Обучение в таком престижном колледже, специализирующемся на гуманитарных науках, было безумно дорогим. Но когда-то родители Стивена обещали молодой женщине, родившей их сына, что ребенок получит хорошее образование.
Родители согласились оплатить учебу, однако стремления Стивена приобщиться к студенческой мажорной жизни хватило ровно на семестр. Парень оставил колледж и углубился в поиски своего предназначения . Этот этап жизни Джобса прошел под влиянием свободных идей хиппи и мистических учений Востока.
Рождение Apple
Стивен Пол подружился со своим одноклассником Биллом Фернандесом, который тоже интересовался электроникой. Фернандес познакомил Джобса с увлекавшимся компьютерами выпускником, Стивеном Возняком (“Воз”) , старшим его на пять лет.
Два Стивена – два друга
В 1969 году Воз с Фернандесом начали собирать небольшой компьютер, который они прозвали «крем-содовым» и показали Джобсу. Так Стив Джобс и Стив Возняк стали лучшими друзьями.
“Мы долго сидели с ним на тротуаре перед домом Билла и делились историями - мы рассказывали друг другу про свои розыгрыши и про разработанные нами устройства. Я чувствовал, что у нас много общего. Мне обычно тяжело объяснять людям все тонкости электротехнических устройств, которые я собирал, но Стив хватал все на лету. Мне он сразу понравился. ”
Из воспоминаний Стива Джобса
Apple Computer
Стив вместе с Возом начал работу над платами для компьютеров. Возняк в то время был членом кружка компьютерщиков-любителей «Homebrew Computer Club» . Именно там его посетила мысль о создании собственного компьютера. Для осуществления идеи ему понадобилась лишь одна плата.
Джобс быстро понял, что разработка товарища является лакомым кусочком для покупателей. На свет появилась компания Apple Computer . Apple начинала свое восхождение в гараже у Джобса.
Apple II
Компьютер Apple II стал первым массовым продуктом компании Apple, созданной по инициативе Стива Джобса. Это случилось в конце 1970-х годов. Позже Джобс увидел коммерческий потенциал графического интерфейса, управляемого мышью, что привело к появлению компьютеров Apple Lisa и, год спустя, Macintosh (Mac) .
Уход из Apple – новый виток успеха
Проиграв борьбу за власть с советом директоров в 1985 году , Джобс покинул Apple и основал NeXT - компанию, разрабатывавшую компьютерную платформу для вузов и бизнеса. В 1986 году он приобрёл подразделение компьютерной графики кинокомпании Lucasfilm, превратив его в .
Он оставался CEO Pixar и основным акционером, пока студия не была приобретена в 2006 году, что сделало Стивена Пола крупнейшим частным акционером и членом совета директоров Disney.
«Реанимация» Apple
В 1996 году компания Apple купила NeXT . Это было сделано для использования ОС NeXTSTEP в качестве основы для Mac OS X. В рамках сделки Стив Джобс получил должность советника Apple. К 1997 году Джобс вернул контроль над Apple , возглавив корпорацию.
Стремительное развитие
Под руководством Стива Пола Джобса компания была спасена от банкротства и через год стала приносить прибыль. В течение следующего десятилетия Джобс руководил разработкой iMac , iTunes , iPod , iPhone и iPad , а также развитием Apple Store , iTunes Store , App Store и iBookstore .
Успех этих продуктов и услуг, обеспечивший несколько лет стабильной финансовой прибыли, позволил Apple стать в 2011 году самой дорогой публичной компанией в мире.
Многие называют возрождение Apple одним из величайших свершений в истории бизнеса. В то же время, Джобса критиковали за жесткий стиль управления, агрессивные действия по отношению к конкурентам, стремление к тотальному контролю за продукцией даже после её реализации покупателю.
Заслуги Стива Джобса
Стив Джобс получил общественное признание и ряд наград за оказанное влияние на индустрию технологий и музыки. Его часто называют «визионером» и даже «отцом цифровой революции» . Джобс был блестящим оратором и вывел презентации инновационных продуктов на новый уровень, превратив их в увлекательные шоу. Его легко узнаваемая фигура в чёрной водолазке, потёртых джинсах и кроссовках окружена своеобразным культом.
5 октября 2011 года , после восьми лет борьбы с раком поджелудочной железы, Стив Джобс скончался в Пал-Альто в возрасте 56 лет .
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“It"s better to be a pirate than join the Navy.”
“I like to believe there"s an afterlife. I like to believe the accumulated wisdom doesn"t just disappear when you die, but somehow it endures. But maybe it"s just like an on/off switch and click-and you"re gone. Maybe that"s why I didn"t like putting on/off switches on Apple devices.”
“In my perspective...science and computer science is a liberal art, it"s something everyone should know how to use, at least, and harness in their life.”
“It"s in Apple"s DNA that technology alone is not enough. It"s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing.”
“You can"t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they"ll want something new.”
“I think humans are basically tool builders, and the computer is the most remarkable tool we"ve ever built.”
“You just make the best product you can, and you don"t put it out until you feel it"s right.”
“Things don"t have to change the world to be important.”
“I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.”
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you"ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.”
“With iPod, listening to music will never be the same again.”
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn"t matter to me. ... Going to bed at night saying we"ve done something wonderful-that"s what matters to me.”
Steve Jobs Biography
Inventor (1955-2011)
Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak. Under Jobs" guidance, the company pioneered a series of revolutionary technologies, including the iPhone and iPad.
Who Was Steve Jobs?
Steven Paul Jobs was an American inventor, designer and entrepreneur who was the co-founder, chief executive and chairman of Apple Computer. Apple"s revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology. Born in 1955 to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption, Jobs was smart but directionless, dropping out of college and experimenting with different pursuits before co-founding Apple with in 1976. Jobs left the company in 1985, launching Pixar Animation Studios, then returned to Apple more than a decade later. Jobs died in 2011 following a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Net Worth
In 2011, Forbes estimated the majority of Steve Jobs’ net worth at around $6.5 billion to $7 billion from his sale of Pixar to the Walt Disney Company in 2006. However if Jobs had not sold his Apple shares in 1985, when he left the company he founded and helmed for over a decade, his net worth would have been a staggering $36 billion.
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Steve Jobs: Movies and Books
Several movies inspired by the computer icon"s life have been released as well — namely the critically panned Jobs (2013), starring , and Steve Jobs (2015), starring and directed by .
A number of books have also been written on Jobs" life and career, including an authorized 2011 general biography by Walter Isaacson. The book was critiqued for the depiction of its main subject by Apple"s chief executive , who succeeded Jobs. Karen Blumenthal also wrote a 2012 young adult biography, and Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli wrote 2015"s Becoming Steve Jobs .
Steve Jobs" Death
Steve Jobs died in Palo Alto on October 5, 2011, after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly a decade. He was 56 years old.
Last Words
In Mona Simpson’s eulogy for Steve Jobs, his sister said Steve Jobs looked at his sister Patty, kids and wife, then said his last words: “OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.”
Wife and Children
Steve Jobs and Laurene Powell married on March 18, 1991. The pair met in the early 1990s at Stanford business school, where Powell was an MBA student. They lived together in Palo Alto, California, with their three children.
Daughter
Although he remained a private man who rarely disclosed information about his family, it is known that Jobs fathered a daughter, Lisa, with girlfriend Chrisann Brennan when he was 23. He denied paternity of his daughter in court documents, claiming he was sterile. Chrisann struggled financially for much of her life, and Jobs did not initiate a relationship with his daughter until she was seven years old. When she was a teenager, Lisa came to live with her father.
When and Where Was Steve Jobs Born?
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California.
Young Steve Jobs
Joanne Schieble (later Joanne Simpson) and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, two University of Wisconsin graduate students, gave up their unnamed son, Steve Jobs, for adoption. Jobs’ father, Jandali, was a Syrian political science professor, and his mother, Schieble, worked as a speech therapist. Shortly after Steve was placed for adoption, his biological parents married and had another child, Mona Simpson. It was not until Jobs was 27 that he was able to uncover information on his biological parents.
As an infant, Jobs was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs. Clara worked as an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist. The family lived in Mountain View, California, within the area that would later become known as Silicon Valley. As a boy, Jobs and his father worked on electronics in the family garage. Paul showed his son how to take apart and reconstruct electronics, a hobby that instilled confidence, tenacity and mechanical prowess in young Jobs.
Education
While Jobs was always an intelligent and innovative thinker, his youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. Jobs was a prankster in elementary school due to boredom, and his fourth-grade teacher needed to bribe him to study. Jobs tested so well, however, that administrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school — a proposal that his parents declined.
After high school, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Lacking direction, he dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes at the school. 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 the company to find spiritual enlightenment in India, traveling further and experimenting with psychedelic drugs.
Steve Wozniak
Back when Jobs was enrolled at Homestead High School, he was introduced to his future partner and co-founder of Apple Computer, Steve Wozniak, who was attending the University of California, Berkeley.
In a 2007 interview with PC World , Wozniak spoke about why he and Jobs clicked so well: "We both loved electronics and the way we used to hook up digital chips," Wozniak said. "Very few people, especially back then, had any idea what chips were, how they worked and what they could do. I had designed many computers, so I was way ahead of him in electronics and computer design, but we still had common interests. We both had pretty much sort of an independent attitude about things in the world.”
Apple Computer
In 1976, when Jobs was just 21, he and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer in the Jobs’ family garage. They funded their entrepreneurial venture by Jobs selling his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak selling his beloved scientific calculator. Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry with Apple by democratizing the technology and making machines smaller, cheaper, intuitive and accessible to everyday consumers.
Wozniak conceived of a series of user-friendly personal computers, and — with Jobs in charge of marketing — Apple initially marketed the computers for $666.66 each. The Apple I earned the corporation around $774,000. Three years after the release of Apple"s second model, the Apple II, the company"s sales increased by 700 percent to $139 million.
In 1980, Apple Computer became a publicly traded company, with a market value of $1.2 billion by the end of its very first day of trading. Jobs looked to marketing expert of Pepsi-Cola to take over the role of CEO for Apple.
The next several products from Apple suffered significant design flaws, however, resulting in recalls and consumer disappointment. IBM suddenly surpassed Apple in sales, 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 counterculture lifestyle: romantic, youthful, creative. But despite positive sales and performance superior to IBM"s PCs, the Macintosh was still not IBM-compatible. Sculley believed Jobs was hurting Apple, and the company"s executives began to phase him out. Not actually having had an official title with the company he co-founded, Jobs was pushed into a more marginalized position and thus left Apple in 1985.
Pixar
In 1986, Jobs purchased an animation company from , which later became Pixar Animation Studios. Believing in Pixar"s potential, Jobs initially invested $50 million of his own money in the company. The studio went on to produce wildly popular movies such as Toy Story , Finding Nemo and The Incredibles; Pixar"s films have collectively netted $4 billion. The studio merged with Walt Disney in 2006, making Steve Jobs Disney"s largest shareholder.
Steve Jobs Essay, Research Paper
Steve Jobs was born on February 25, 1955. He was soon adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, CA. Steve wasn t happy at school in Mountain View so the family moved to Palo Alto, CA. Steve attended Homestead High School. His electronics teacher recalled that he was something of a loner and always had a different way of looking at things.
After school, Steve attended lectures at Hewlett Packard Electronics firm in Palo Alto, CA. There he was hired as a summer employee. Another employee at Hewlett-Packard was Steven Wozniak, a recent drop-out from the University of California, Berkeley. Woz was an engineering whiz with a passion for inventing electric gadgets. He worked on perfecting an illegal gadget called blue Box that allowed them to get free long distance calls from pay phones. Jobs helped Woz to sell a number of blue boxes.
In 1972 Steve graduated from high school and registered at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. After dropping out of Reed after one semester he hung around the campus for a year taking classes in philosophy and immersing himself in the counter culture.
In 1974, Steve Jobs took a job as a video game designer at Atari, Inc., a pioneer in electronic arcade recreation. After a few months he saved enough money to go to India where he traveled in search of spiritual enlightenment with Dan Kottke, a friend from Reed College.
In the autumn of 1974, Jobs returned to California and started attending meetings of Woz s Homebrew Computer Club. Woz like most of the clubs members, was happy with the creation of electronics. Steve wasn t nearly the engineer as Woz and persuaded him to start work on a home computer.
Woz and Jobs designed the Apple I in Steve s bedroom and built the first prototype in Steve s parents garage. Apple I was a hit. Steve sold his Volkswagen microbus and Woz sold his Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator to make enough money to build more machines. Jobs named the company Apple because of a happy summer working in an orchard in Oregon.
Jobs and Woz built the first real machine called the Apple I. They marketed it at a price of $666.00 in 1976. The Apple I was the first computer with one board. It had a built in video interface, on board ROM-which told the machine hold to load programs from an external source. Jobs and Wozniak managed $774,000.00 in sales from the Apple I. Soon after they started working on the Apple II. The Apple II supported built in circuitry allowing it to connect to a color video monitor. Jobs encouraged programmers to write code and the result was some 16,000 programs for the Apple II.
In 1977, Apple hired the most successful PR men in Silicon Valley, Regis McKenna and Nolan Bushnell. They were both very good marketers and public relation men on Apple s board of directors.
In the first seven years of Apple s existence, Steve Jobs had created a strong productive company with growth rates of over 150% a year. Then IBM muscled its way into the PC market. In two years, IBM PC s had taken over as the top selling computer in the PC industry.
Steven countered the PC movement by introducing the Macintosh. The Mac was radical, it was all driven by a mouse and had a graphical display. When the machine was introduced during the Super Bowl in 1984, Steve Jobs described it as kind of like watching a gladiator going to the arena and saying here it is. .
The commercial had a young woman athlete going into the arena chased by faceless storm troopers and hurled a sledge hammer into the image of a menacing voice. A translucent blast…then a calm cultivated speaker assured the astonished multitudes that 1984 would not be like 1984.
Jobs innovation of the gladiator was not incidental here. Throughout the development of the Mac, it has come up in projects in all it s glory. Apple exiled Steve for his work on the Mac saying it was hurting the Apple platform, not helping it. .
Steve sold over $20 million in Apple shares. He spent days along the beach, went to Europe. One day inspiration came to Steve. He wanted a company to call his own. He left Apple for good and founded NeXTStep with five key Apple employees. Jobs new ideas weren t in the hardware industry but in the software industry. He developed NeXTOS and in mid 1989 NeXT came out with a $7,000 monochrome system. It had no floppy, virtually no useful software, and a slow magneto-optical disk. In the end only 50,000 NeXTStep machines were ever built.
Jobs and a new member to NeXT, Peter Van Cuylenburg, age 44, planned on releasing NeXTStep to run on the mainstream as an operating system in the fall of 1993.
Jobs has been criticized as one of America s roughest, toughest, most intimidating bosses. Ever since Steve founded Apple computer when he was 21, the meditating computer mogul was known as the terrible infant of Silicon Valley.
Steve Jobs helped out Apple as an adviser for a few years when he was working in Pixar, a computer animation company based in California. Pixar made such movies as Toy Story and is hoping to release more.
Steve Jobs went back to Apple as an interim CEO last August. He has made many changes to the company. People that he has worked with are afraid of being Steved if they don t work hard enough; that means fired by Steve.
In conclusion, Steve Jobs who was a college dropout, experimented with drugs and Eastern religions before turning to computers, is a very strange man. He continues to lead Apple and his sub companies into the 21st century by carrying the lead in computers. Competing with Windows is hard. If anyone can do it, it s Steve.