Steve Jobs - Famous Pioneer of the PC Revolution

Steve Paul Jobs - Famous Pioneer of the PC Revolution

Name           :   Steve Paul Jobs

   

 

Country        : U.S.A.

Period           :  Born :  24th February 1955                    

                      :  Died  :  5th October 2011 

Cause of death  : Cancer

Age               :  56  years

Adoptive Parents :

Mother         : Mrs. Clara Jobs

Father          :  Mr. Paul Jobs

Biological Parents :

Mother         : Mrs. Joanne Schieble Simpson

Father          : Mr. Abdulfattah Jandali

Spouce(s)     :  Chrisann Brennan and Laurene Powell

Occupation : Cofounder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.                        Funded Pixar                        Founder and CEO of NeXT Inc Known for Pioneer of the personal computer revolution with Steve Wozniak

Steve Paul Jobs was born on 24th February 1955.  Adopted at birth in San Francisco and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1960s.  As a senior at Homestead High School, in Cupertino, California, his two closest friends were the older engineering student (and Homestead High alumnus) Steve Wozniak and his countercultural girlfriend, the artistically inclined Homestead High junior Chrisann Brennan. Jobs briefly attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out, deciding to travel through India in 1974, and study Buddhism. He co-founded Apple in 1976 in his parent's Los Altos home on Crist Drive in order to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. "Jobs and Woz" gained fame and wealth a year later for the Apple II.  The Apple II dominated the personal computer market until it was destabilized by the introduction of the IBM-PC in 1981.  The Macintosh also instigated 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. Jobs did changes for number of times during the period of 1985-1996. After leaving Apple, he took a few of its members with him to found NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in state of the art, higher end computers for higher-education and business markets.   A few years later in 1990, Tim Berners-Lee would use a NeXT Computer to create the first browser for the World Wide Web. In addition to NeXT, Jobs helped to instigate the development of the visual effects industry when he purchased the computer graphics division of George Lucas' company Lucasfilm in February 1986. The new company, renamed Pixar, would eventually produce the first fully computer-generated animated film, Toy Story, an event made possible in part due to Jobs' financial support.   Paul and Clara adopted Jobs' sister Patricia in 1957 and the family moved to Mountain View, California in 1961. It was during this time that Paul built a workbench in his garage for his son in order to "pass along his love of mechanics." Jobs meanwhile admired his father's craftsmanship “because he knew how to build anything. Jobs traveled to India in mid-1974 to visit Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi ashram with his Reed friend (and later Apple employee) Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment. When they got to the Neem Karoli ashram, it was almost deserted because Neem Karoli Baba had died in September 1973. Then they made a long trek up a dry riverbed to an ashram of Haidakhan Babaji. In India, they spent a lot of time on bus rides from Delhi to Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh.  After staying for seven months, Jobs left India[24] and returned to the US ahead of Daniel Kottke.  During this time period, both Jobs and Brennan became practitioners of Zen Buddhism through the Zen master Kobun.   His vision is the entrepreneurial creation myth writ large: Steve Jobs cofounded Apple in his parents’ garage in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned to rescue it from near bankruptcy in 1997, and by the time he died, in October 2011, had built it into the world’s most valuable company.  Along the way he helped to transform seven industries:              1. Personal Computing             2. Animated movies             3. Music             4. Phones             5. Tablet Computing             6. Retail Stores and              7. Digital Publishing.  He thus belongs in the pantheon of America’s great innovators, along with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Walt Disney. None of these men was a saint, but long after their personalities are forgotten, history will remember how they applied imagination to technology and business.   Jobs aimed for the simplicity that comes from conquering, rather than merely ignoring, complexity. Achieving this depth of simplicity, he realized, would produce a machine that felt as if it deferred to users in a friendly way, rather than challenging them. “It takes a lot of hard work,” he said, “to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions.” Jobs was worth a million dollars when he was 23 (1978), 10 million when he was 24, and over 100 million when he was 25. He was also one of the youngest "people ever to make the Forbes list of the nation's richest people - and one of only a handful to have done it themselves, without inherited wealth." The first film produced by the partnership, Toy Story (1995), with Jobs credited as executive producer, brought fame and critical acclaim to the studio when it was released. Over the next 15 years, under Pixar's creative chief John Lasseter, the company produced box-office hits A Bug's Life (1998); Toy Story 2 (1999); Monsters, Inc. (2001); Finding Nemo (2003); The Incredibles (2004); Cars (2006); Ratatouille (2007); WALL-E (2008); Up (2009); and Toy Story 3 (2010). Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up and Toy Story 3 each received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, an award introduced in 2001. In 2005, Jobs responded to criticism of Apple's poor recycling programs for e-waste in the US by lashing out at environmental and other advocates at Apple's Annual Meeting in Cupertino in April. A few weeks later, Apple announced it would take back iPods for free at its retail stores. The Computer TakeBack Campaign responded by flying a banner from a plane over the Stanford University graduation at which Jobs was the commencement speaker. The banner read "Steve, don't be a mini-player—recycle all e-waste." In October 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with cancer. In mid-2004, he announced to his employees that he had a cancerous tumor in his pancreas. The prognosis for pancreatic cancer is usually very poor; Jobs stated that he had a rare, much less aggressive type, known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor.  On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation as Apple's CEO, writing to the board, "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come."  Jobs became chairman of the board and named Tim Cook as his successor as CEO. Jobs continued to work for Apple until the day before his death six weeks later. Jobs died at his Palo Alto, California, home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated islet-cell neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer, resulting in respiratory arrest. He had lost consciousness the day before, and died with his wife, children, and sisters at his side. His sister, Mona Simpson, described his death thus: "Steve’s final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times. Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life’s partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them. Steve’s final words were: OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW." He then lost consciousness and died several hours later. A small private funeral was held on October 7, 2011, of which details were not revealed out of respect to Jobs's family. At the time of his death, his biological mother, Joanne Schieble Simpson, was living in a nursing home and suffering from dementia. She was not told that he died. Governor Jerry Brown of California declared Sunday, October 16, 2011 to be "Steve Jobs Day." Honors and Awards Statue of Jobs at Graphisoft Park, Budapest.     2013: Posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend.     2012: Grammy Trustees Award, an award for those who have influenced the music                industry  in areas unrelated to performance.     2007: Jobs was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California               Museum for History, Women and the Arts.     2007: Jobs was named the most powerful person in business by Fortune magazine.     1989: ’’Entrepreneur of the Decade’’ by Inc. magazine.     1987: Jefferson Award for Public Service.     1985: National Medal of Technology (with Steve Wozniak).