Steven Jobs was the chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Company, CEO of Pixar and the founder of NeXT. Steve was the one who knew the world was going to change and the one who made it happen.
He was born in San Francisco to parents who had to put him up for adoption at birth; he was raised in the San Francisco during the 1960s. Jobs then attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out.Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. The visionaries gained fame and wealth a year later for the Apple II,one of the first highly successful mass-produced personal computers. This led to development of the unsuccessful Apple Lisa in 1983, followed by the breakthrough Macintosh in 1984. In addition to being the first mass-produced computer with a GUI, the Macintosh introduced the sudden rise of the desktop publishing industry in 1985 with the addition of the Apple LaserWriter, the first laser printer to feature vector graphics. Following a long power struggle, Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985.
After leaving Apple, Jobs started up NeXT,a computer platform development company that specialized in state-of-the-art computers for higher-education and business markets. Years later, his new company, Pixar, produced the first fully computer-animated film, Toy Story—an event made possible thanks to Disney and Jobs’ personal financial support.
In 1997, Apple merged with NeXT. Within a few months of the merger, Jobs became CEO of his former company; he revived Apple at the verge of bankruptcy. Beginning in 1997 with the "Think different" advertising campaign, Jobs worked closely with designer Jonathan Ive to develop a line of products that would have larger cultural ramifications: the iMac, iTunes and iTunes Store, Apple Store, iPod, iPhone, App Store, and the iPad. In 2001, the original Mac OS was replaced with a completely new Mac OS X, giving the OS a modern Unix-based foundation for the first time.
Jobs was diagnosed with cancer in 2003 and died on October 5, 2011, of respiratory arrest related to the tumor.
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