Steve jobs

The magician of modern technology

AMRITA BISWAS

A presentation by

Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)was an American businessman and inventor widely 

recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of 

Pixar by Disney.

Early Life

Picture of Steve Jobs and his father

Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco on 24 February 1955, to two

university students, Joanne Carole Schieble

and Syrian born Abdulfattah "John" Jandali who were both unmarried

at the time.He was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs and Clara Jobs.When asked about his "adoptive parents,"

Jobs replied emphatically that Paul and Clara Jobs "were my parents."He

later stated in his authorized biography that

they "were my parents 1,000%."[

EducationSkipped 5th grade

Took his first electronics class in high school

After school, attended lectures at the Hewlett-Packard company where he met Steve Wonzniak during work

The Beginning of A Career Graduated high school in 1972

Enrolled in Reed College in Oregon.

Slept on his friends dorm room floor and dropped in on classes of interest

Returned to California in 1974

Attended meetings at

Wozniak’s “Homebrew

Computer Club”

Steve convinced Wozniak to work with him in building computers

After their tinkering resulted in the Apple I desktop computer in 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found themselves at the forefront of an industry on the verge of an explosion. Their fledgling enterprise, the California-based Apple Computer, Inc.,quickly set the standard for personal computers and made the duo millionaires while still in their 20s.In the late 1970s, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak engineered one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. Jobs directed its aesthetic design and marketing along with A.C. "Mike" Markkula, Jr. and others. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa (engineered by Ken Rothmuller and John Couch) and, one year later, creation of Apple employee Jef Raskin’s Macintosh.

Apple Born on April 1st, 1976

Apple I designed and prototype built

First single board computer with built-in video interface

Apple II designed in the following year

Operating System loaded automatically

Smaller Components & built-in circuitry

In 1976, Jobs looked to hire a public relations agency to help advertise

Smooth….. Sailing APPLE Became publicly traded company in 1980

Launched LISA in 1983

First commercial computer to use GUI

Unpopular due to its few software programs and high price

  Sales began to plunge

  Wozniak quit Apple in 1985

  Board members of Apple met on May   28th, 1985 and      each voted on the removal of Steve from the  company

The Downfall

Still Looking UpAfter taking time off, Jobs wanted

to get back to Apple and his love for computers

Decided to start his own company

Founded NeXT Computer in 1989

The New Beginning

• In early 2000, Pixar leads animated film industry

• Later that month, Jobs announced his return to the CEO position

• Insisted on keeping his $1 annual salary

Portable Audio Revolution• Less than a year after iTunes was released, Apple 

released the iPod

• Originally only for Mac users

• In July 2002, the new iPod was available for Windows users as well

• Sales skyrocketed and 75% of MP3 players are iPods

Portable Audio Revolution (Cont.)

In eight weeks, five million songs were sold on iTunes

Took over 80% of the legal music downloading market

Think different!!June 6th, 2005, Jobs announced switch

from PowerPC chips to Intel chips.

This would conserve energy on PowerBook and iBook

Think different!!

• October 2005, 5th generation of iPod was introduced

• Could play music videos and TV shows

• Jobs announced the opening of the iTunes video store

Calligraphy

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"If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the

Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally

spaced fonts."

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45

17.4

38.2

8.5

17.5

9.1

9.4

Which one should I choose???

Percentage

Mac is light years ahead of Windows

Jobs died at his California home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, due to

complications from a relapse of his previously

treated islet-cell pancreatic cancer

resulting in respiratory arrest.

He had lost consciousness the day before, and died

with his wife, children and sister at his side.

Death…

Steve Jobs’ speech at Stanford University

“Your time is limited. So don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuitions. They somehow already know, WHAT YOU TRULY WANT TO BECOME! Everything else, is secondary.”

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSI would like to thank the following people for their help and support 

without which I couldn’t have completed this presentation.

MY TEACHERMr. Sandipan Nag

MY PARENTSMr. Amitabha BiswasMrs. Shima Biswas

And my fellow classmates who helped me in this presentation

Thank You