Steve Jobs is best known of making Apple computers and I-pods. Steve Jobs was born in 1955(he’s pretty old) to unwed parents. Steve was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. Later in his life he tracked down his biological parents. When Steve found his biological parents he found out that he had an sister. But, later in life he found out he had a thirst of education. Steve graduated form Santa Clara’s Homestead High School in 1972. Steve went to Reed College in Portland, Oregon. After college he went to work for Atari as a video game designer. In the summer of 1974 he traveled to India. In India Steve embraced Eastern Culture and religion. Steve fell ill with dysentery (diarrhea) in the fall of that year and had to come home. In 1975, Steve began keeping company with a group calling themselves the Homebrew Computer Club. The first Apple computer went on sale in 1976 and the price was $700.In 1977 Steve came out with his second computer the “Apple 2”. The Apple 2 sales were $2.7 million that first year, and in three years, growth had surged to $200 million in sales. As of 1980, other competition had sprung up form IMB, Radio Shack, and commodore. In 1980 the new Apple 3 was introduced. Apple ceased selling it for a time in order to rework it, but it never sold well. A new model, Lisa, was offered in 1983 for business people with few computer skills, but it could not complete with lower priced machines from IMB. Seeking to regain its prominence, Apple developed the “Macintosh” model in 1984 to be even more user-friendly, but Steve made a fatal mistake by not putting a hard drive disk.:( .Since Steve didn’t put the hard drive disk in customers avoided it and market share continued to do down. Steve was forced to departure. In an highly publicized blowout, the company CEO, John Sculley whom Steve handpicked for the post, made it clear that Apple did not want its founder to lead them anymore. Steve did however remain chair of the board of director. After leaving Apple, Steve invested $7 million. Steve started a new computer company. Steve was working with ex-Apple employees; he developed a faster microcomputer with excellent graphics and sound that went to market in 1989. In addition to Steve’s failure to build a project that would see the same success as the apple 2. It was widely reported that he could be a difficult boss. In 1986 he purchased Pixar Animation Studios for $10 million from filmmaker George Lucas. Steve over the years invested another $40 to $50 million of his own funds in the project and by 1995, was seen as a pioneer once again when released “Toy Story”. Steve was still running next, and by 1993 it had scaled back only offer customizable software for programmers, specifically those creating web sites, called Next Step. Jobs decided to sell NeXT, and in December of 1996, Apple announced that it was buying the film for more then $400 million. The company that once kicked him out now wanted him back in hopes that he could breathe new life into it’s sagging sales and increases their market share. When Steve joined Apple again he made it clear that Pixar would remain his focus. By July of 1997, Apple board of director asked Steve to consider the post of CEO, but he said do. Steve was indeed rejoining Apple as an interim CEO. Steve salary was only $1 a year for many years. By May of 1998, Steve unveiled the new innovation as the iMac. Steve brought out a movie making application call iMovie that allowed non-expert to make their own home videos. In 2001 the iPod, a portable digital music player that could hold hundreds to thousands of songs. In 2003 iTunes came out. Steve later married Laurene, a graduate student whom he met around 1990 at Stanford’s business school when he was there to give a speech. They have 3 childern and live in a English-style country home in Palo Alto. Steve got cancer in 2004.:(. After related surgeries, Steve took a month off from his posts to recover from cancer. In January 2007 Steve announced he was going to create the “iPhone”. Steve’s iPhone price was high it came up to $499 to $599. By September 2007, sales of the iPhone increased when Apple reduced the price form $599 to $399. In 2008, Steve created a new iPhone called the “iPhone 3G” which was only $199. In January 2009, Steve announced that he had a testable hormone imbalance. Because of Steve’s health problems he took six-months off. Steve was getting a liver transplant in April. Steve is still alive todayJ but, still have health problemsL.
