How Steve Jobs Changed My Life

Zayd Sanders

Biography

• Born February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, Died October 5,2011.

• Best known as an inventor, entrepreneur, and CEO of Apple Inc.

• He attended Reed College for a semester and then dropped out.

Biography

• He returned to California and he was hired by Atari.

• Jobs took interest in his friend Woz’s new activities.

• They gained popularity after the Altair 8800 personal computer kit came out in 1975.

• Steve convinced his friend Wozniak to start a company, and Apple Computer was born on April 1, 1976.

Biography

• Apple went public and in December 1980, and Jobs’ net worth increased to over $200 million at the age of 25

• They attracted the attention of IBM (the only other company selling mainframe computers to large companies)

Macintosh

• Steve Jobs wanted to create a personal computer that was supposed to be cheap and easy to use.

• 1981 he became the head of the Macintosh project.

• It took 3 years to develop, and he formed a small group of dedicated, young engineers.

Biography

• Steve had high standards for his new NeXT machine. He wanted the best hardware, and the most advanced software possible. The system NeXTSTEP was based on UNIX.

• This came out October 1988, but it didn’t sel because it was late, and it was overpriced.

• Jobs had failed and he started focusing on his family

Pixar

• In early 1986, Jobs bought a small group of computer scientists, and incorporated it as Pixar.

• In the late 1970s the founders of Pixar had a vision of making films using computer animation only. They knew that no computer was powerful enough at the time.

• They had to wait a couple of decades before their dream could come true.

Pixar

• Pixar was a small company.

• In November 1995 Toy Story was released, and it was a huge success.

• His net worth grew to over $1.5 billion. That’s 5 times more money than apple has made in the 1980s.

Apple

• 2001 Jobs and his team started talking about OS X.

• In mid 2001 Apple stores opened.

• March 2001, Steve Jobs started a development program to develop Apple-branded MP3 player before that years holiday season.

• The iPod was born October 23, 2001.

iPod

• The iPod was the first digital music player that people loved, and was a commercial success from the day it came out.

• The iTunes Store was introduced in April 2003, before that people would pirate music, and burn their CDs

• iTunes was on Mac only, but it was introduced to windows six months later

How does this change my life?

When I was growing up in the 90s, I played tons of video games, watched cartoons, movies, listened to music. I did all of this without knowing about Steve Jobs. Of course I knew that someone had created these things, someone helped to make them better. I didn’t know that he helps with Pixar. One of my favorite childhood movies is Toy Story. I played Atari games. I still see games today that are made by Atari.

How does this change my life?

• I used to use CD players. I remember going to the music store and buying blank CDs. In the early 2000s I didn’t have the money for an iPod because I was only 8 or 9. so I used to ask my sisters and my mom to buy me Linkin Park, Papa Roach, and Hoobastank CDs. Now I can go on to iTunes and download any song I want.