I am doing my research essay on a founding father of technology, innovation, business, and good old fashion creativity. The co-founder, CEO, and chairman of Apple inc. Steve Jobs. The Steve Jobs that introduced us to the iPod in 2001 that later developed into the phone that a little under twenty percent of the population has in their pocket at the very moment you're reading this. Although better known by its make and model, the IPhone is one of the best selling smartphones on the market. Like another founding father of technology, Bill Gates, Steve never finished college.
In 1976 Steve and a few of his friends, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, in his parents garage. After a very short time, Ronald Wayne left Apple, leaving Jobs and Wozniak
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On October 22nd, 2014, the machine sold for $905,000. This was Apple's first major succession. The Apple II was designed in 1977 once again by Steve Wozniak. This is the machine that inspired most everything you use today from modern cell phones to desktop computers. The Apple II was a self contained unit with built in keyboard, power supply and permanent memory which was a major stepping stone in technology at the time. After the Apple II, Jobs moved Apple moved to Cupertino, California, not very far away from the current office today. In 1985 after many years of success Jobs was booted from the company, he lost all connections and ownership with apple. During this time he settled down with his recently discovered child Lisa Brennan-Jobs, and even started his own company, NeXT, and in 1996 bought Apple and regained his position of CEO. While Jobs was gone, Apple had released one of their biggest hits, the Macintosh, which cost around $2000 at the time. Slightly after Jobs return Apple went downhill. Microsoft released Windows 3.0 which featured the exact same GUI (look and control) that Apple was working on at the time. In 1994 Apple sued Microsoft for stealing the “Look and feel of the Lisa and Macintosh operating systems”. They lost the supreme court case on the ruling that Apple had stolen the operating system of the once popular company …show more content…
The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. While some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." “Jobs's Zen-like ability to focus was accompanied by the related instinct to simplify things by zeroing in on their essence and eliminating unnecessary components. "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication," declared Apple's first marketing brochure. To see what that means, compare any Apple software with, say, Microsoft Word, which keeps getting uglier and more cluttered with non intuitive navigational ribbons and intrusive features. It is a reminder of the glory of Apple's quest for simplicity.” The article shines through Apple to stops on its founder. Although we easily lose topic from Jobs achievements to Apples achievements this article did well. It told the story of starting from selling home-brewed motherboards and ending with his death in 2011. It told the story of his odd ad campaigns and his well known for quotes. But the article studied on how Jobs kept everything together and was still known for his amazing leadership. Settling for only the best and nothing else was his key. Although most executives couldn't keep their employees attention for long enough to put this through their thick skulls, Jobs did it and did it
The introduction of Apple’s Macintosh in 1984 revolutionized the personal computer industry (North, 2011). Although Jobs did not invent the
Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple computers, was influenced by the very same transcendental ideas expressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson, namely self-reliance and determination. Rather than conforming to the accepted path of success, Steve Jobs chose to do things his own way, with determination. He dropped out of college and began only taking classes he found interesting, then he starte...
In 1984 Jobs would introduce the Macintosh at the company 's annual shareholders meeting. They launched the Macintosh and for the first few months it was successful. A year later sales was dropping and Jobs was in denial and would continue to behave as if he had saved Apple. Steve Jobs and John Sculley was not talking to one another.
In 1976, Apple was just an idea being made in a garage by Steve Wozniak and the well-known owner of Apple, Steven Jobs. The two were college drop-outs and were looked at as outcasts. The first invention that Apple introduced was the Apple I. On April 1, 1976 Apple computer was made a reality (Glen). The company did not take off until 1977, when Apple introduced the Apple II. The Apple II was the first personal computer to have plastic casing and color graphics (Glen). Then in early 1978, the Apple Disk II was invented. It was Apple’s most inexpensive product of the time and had easy to use floppy disk (Glen). By 1980, the Apple III had been invented and the sales were increasing and so was the company. Apple had several of thousand employees and managers and had developed many investors. Fast forward twenty-one years to 2001, when Apple made the iPod. From there Apple grew like wildfire, with the invention of the iPhone in 2007 and many version...
In 1976 college dropouts Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, assisted by Ron Wayne embarked on a path to start a tech company that would create new innovative products by connecting people all over the world. This company came to be known as Apple Computers which has become a global leader in Technology and cultural innovation. The rise of Apple computers did not come easy and along with the major success obtained their failures have not gone without notice. Yet, through the joy of success and the agony of defeat, Apple has continued to reinvent its brand over four decades.
From the first Apple computer to the iWatch, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started out in the business of kit computers with the Apple I. This initial production run, although popular as a collectible now, will mainly be remembered for helping the company get enough capital to build the Apple II in 1977 - the same year Apple officially incorporated. Steve Wozniak primarily built both these computers and Steve Jobs handled the marketing side. The Apple II drove the company’s revenue until the mid-1980s despite the hardware remaining the same. Apple attempted updates like the Apple III and the Apple Lisa, but these failed to catch on commercially. Although the Apple II was still selling, Apple as a company was in trouble when the 80s began. The 1984 release of the Macintosh was a leap forward for Apple, but in the intervening years between the Apple II and the Macintosh, IBM had caught up. Disappointing revenues from the Macintosh and internal struggles for control led to Apple’s board dismissing Steve Jobs in favor of John Sculley. Steve Inc. Under Sculley, Apple started growing its product lines. John Sculley served as Apple’s CEO
Steve’s work made him outrageously famous in popularity and fame. He emerged into the spotlight very quickly due to the co-founding of Apple Co. His popularity and fame increased over the years that he kept introducing new products for consumers to buy. Many people like to call him “once in a generation genius”. (“Steve Jobs” pg.1) In 1982 Time Magazine earlier named his apple computer as the “Machine of the Year” aside with a long profile of Jobs and then got famous for it. (Riggertj pg 1) Later he was awarded the “national Medal of Technology” by President Ronald Reagan in the category “Greatest Public Service by an individual 35 years or under”.(Riggertj pg 1) In 1989 Jobs was named “Entrepreneur of the Decade” by Inc. Magazine. On November 2007, Jobs was named the most powerful and intriguing person in business by Fortune Magazine. Two films of Disney’s “John Carter” and Pixar’s “Brave” were dedicated to Steve Jobs. (The Life and Legacy of Steve Jobs” pg.1) Jobs later was chosen a
Steve Jobs (CEO and chairman of Apple Inc.) was an American entrepreneur and inventor. He was born in February 24, 1955 and founded Apple Inc. with his high school buddy Steve Wozniak in 1976. But later in 1976, when Apple was about to bankrupt he returned to it as advisor and Interim CEO. He made Apple profitable from near bankruptcy by 1998 (Walter Isaacson, 2013). From (1996-2011), he proved himself as one of the best engineering leaders of the world and made Apple the most innovative company of the world.
After the years, Jobs then reconnected with Wozniak, which later had been working on to build a small computer. To Wozniak it was just a hobby, but Jobs had seen potential, and indoctrinated Wozniak to go into business. In 1975, he and Wozniak set up shop in Jobs' parents' garage, entitled the venture Apple, and began working on the prototype of the Apple I. Originally they had hoped to sell the PC to other members in the Homebrew Computer Club, but were turned down, Since then, Jobs insisted on producing the Apple I on their own. Jobs sold his old Volkswagen Bus and Wozniak sold his programmable HP calculator and together they accumulated around $1,250. They then began to produce the f...
...e CEO of Apple Incorporations. “Jobs' constant innovations led Business 2.0 to name him the fifth most important leader in business in 2006. It called him "easily the greatest marketer since P.T. Barnum" and a muse for innovators” (“Steve Paul Jobs”). A man this powerful and intelligent will never be forgotten. That extraordinary phone called the iPhone that almost everyone in the world has is only here because of Steve Jobs. Thanks to him there are barely any more of those somewhat embarrassing flip phones.
It was Steve Jobs who made Apple leave the garage and make leaps and bounds in the world of technology. Steve Wozniak made the first prototype, but it was Jobs who “saw the potential” in his computer and persuaded Wozniak to sell it (Peterson 106). Even though that first computer saw very little success, Jobs knew that Apple had potential and so released the Apple II. From the beginning Jobs knew what the consumers wanted, and where computers were going to take the world; he had a vision of the opportunities in technology and saw that Apple needed to move in a different direction. In 1984, one year before he left, Jobs finished the Macintosh computer system. He was pushed from his original computer design project, “the Lisa”, and then raced to release the Mac first, but the Lisa was released to the public first. Although the Lisa came out first, the Mac “[became] synonymous with Apple, mark[ing] a…revolution in…personal computing,” (Peterson 106).
The history of Apple began thirty years ago, when the two friends, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak decided to found their own company for the production and release of computers.
In almost every part of the world Apple and at least one of their products is known. The Apple brand started in the 1970s. Three men founded the organization in 1976, to produce a computer that every citizen could use personally (Sohail, 2010). The first item released was the Apple 1 personal computer kit made by Steve Wozniak (Sohail, 2010). Through the 70s, Apple concentrated on developing storing technologies such as the floppy disk and the use of color, graphics, and spreadsheets used for business (Sohail, 2010). Apple was about to have their first major product release with a million dollar ad campaign. This was the release of the Macintosh personal computer, which also led to Apple’s great reputation (Sohail, 2010).
The Apple II earned the company handsome revenue until the mid 1980s though the hardware remained largely the same. Later Apple attempted Apple III and the Apple Lisa which failed.
In 1976, Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer with his friend Wozniak in the garage of Job’s parents. In 1984, Jobs introduced the Macintosh to the world. It was a very innovative and good product but sales were not strong. Apple’s board wanted to Jobs to step down from his position. In 1985, Steve Jobs founded NeXT Inc. Steve was able to create technologically advanced product but the cost was too high to be successful. Company made first profit after 10 years of operation. In 1997, NeXT Inc was acquired by Apple Inc. In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group. In 1995, the first film, Toy Story, came out. It was a big success and Pixar became one of the biggest animations producing company in the market. Jobs had opportunity to return to Apple, after Apple decided to purchase NeXT Inc. After Jobs returned to Apple, He started to invent new product. iMac was introduced to market and Jobs became permanent CEO of Apple. Apple started to expand their expertise under Jobs guidance. Apple started to introduce digital appliances like iPod, portable music player. In 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone, the very first multi-touch display cellphone. iPod and iPhone completely changed world. These inventions were not only a better product but also new way...