Steve Jobs. Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) He was an American businessman and inventor widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer.

Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011)

• He 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 was co-founder and previously 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 and education• 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 (1922–1993) and Clara Jobs (1924–1986). 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%."

• The Jobs family moved from San Francisco to Mountain View, California when Steve was five years old. Paul and Clara later adopted a daughter, Patti. Paul Jobs, a machinist for a company that made lasers, taught his son rudimentary electronics and how to work with his hands. Clara was an accountant, who taught him to read before he went to school.

• Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Although he dropped out after only one semester, he continued auditing classes at Reed, while sleeping on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple. Jobs later said, "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."

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First Apple

• Jobs and Steve Wozniak met in 1971, when their mutual friend, Bill Fernandez, introduced 21-year-old Wozniak to 16-year-old Jobs. In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne founded Apple computer in the garage of Jobs's parents in order to sell it.

• Home of Paul and Clara Jobs, on Crist Drive in Los Altos, California. Steve Jobs formed Apple Computer in its garage with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne in 1976.

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Wealth

• Jobs earned only $1 a year as CEO of Apple, but held 5.426 million Apple shares, as well as 138 million shares in Disney (which he received in exchange for Disney's acquisition of Pixar). Forbes estimated his net wealth at $8.3 billion in 2010, making him the 42nd wealthiest American.

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• Most people know Steve Jobs, because he invented devices like:

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iPhone

• The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc.

iPhone

iPhone 3GS

iPhone 3GS

iPod

Shuffle Nano

Shuffle

Classic Touch

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iPad

The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc.

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Mac

The Macintosh or Mac, is a series of personal computers (PC) designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc.

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Jobs demonstrated the iPhone 4 to Dmitry Medvedev, president of Russia, on June 23, 2010.

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Health

• In October 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with cancer, and 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 announced his resignation as Apple's CEO on August 24, 2011. "Unfortunately, that day has come," wrote Jobs, for he could "no longer meet [his] duties and expectations as Apple's CEO". Jobs became chairman of the board and named Tim Cook his successor. Jobs had worked for Apple until the day before his death.

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• 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 neuroendocrine pancreatic cancer, resulting in respiratory arrest. He had lost consciousness the day before, and died with his wife, children and sister at his side.

• His death was announced by Apple in a statement which read:

• “We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts.”

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Honors and public recognition

• After Apple's founding, Jobs became a symbol of his company and industry. When Time named the computer as the 1982 "Machine of the Year", the magazine published a long profile of Jobs as "the most famous maestro of the micro".

• Jobs was awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, and a Jefferson Award for Public Service in the category "Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Under“ in 1987. On November 27, 2007, Jobs was named the most powerful person in business byFortune magazine.

• In September 2011, Jobs was ranked No.17 on Forbes: The World's Most Powerful People. In December 2010, the Financial Times named Jobs its person of the year for 2010.At the time of his resignation, and again after

his death, Jobs was widely described as a visionary, pioneer and genius—perhaps one of the foremost—in the field of business, innovation, and product design, and a man who had profoundly changed the face of the modern world. After his resignation as Apple's CEO, Jobs was characterized as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of his time.

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At Budapest, on December 21, 2011 Graphisoft company was presenting the world's first bronze

statue of Steve Jobs, calling him one of the greatest personalities of the modern age.

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Sources.

• Sources: ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervushin.com/Steve Jobs ceo applehomeenglish.ru/Articles Jobs htmozon.ru Walter Isaacson

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