Steve jobs
The people who are really crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Here's a time line of Steve Jobs's life:
- 1955 - Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco, the son of Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble. He is quickly adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs.
- 1969 - Steve Jobs meets Steve Wozniak, 5 years older, through a mutual friend. Woz and Steve share a love of electronics, Bob Dylan, and pranks.
- Mar 1976 - Woz and Steve show the early Apple I board at the Homebrew Computer Club.
- Aug 1976 - Steve Jobs and Woz show off the Apple I at the Personal Computing Festival in Atlantic City, with help from Dan Kottke.
- 1978 - At Apple, work starts on the Apple III and the Lisa, while Jef Raskin begins The Book of Macintosh.
- 1980 - Apple launches the Apple III, which will prove a disastrous flop.
- Jan 1983 - Launch of the Lisa computer. The Lisa team later merges with the Mac team under Steve Jobs's leadership.
- Apr 1983 - PepsiCo CEO John Sculley becomes Apple's CEO after having been wooed by Steve Jobs for several months.
- 1985 - Steve Jobs resigns from Apple and starts NeXT with five other refugees from Apple. Apple announces it will sue NeXT.
- 1996 - Apple, which was desperately looking for a modern operating system to buy, eventually buys NeXT for $400 million. Steve Jobs is named "informal adviser" to Apple CEO Gil Amelio.
- 1998 - Steve Jobs introduces Apple's revolutionary iMac at the Flint Center auditorium in Cupertino, 14 years after he had introduced the Macintosh at that same place.
- 1999 - Introduction of the iMac DVs and of iMovie, the first of Apple's first Digital Hub app.
- 2003 - Introduction of the iMac DVs and of iMovie, the first of Apple's first Digital Hub app.
- 2008 - At Macworld 2008, Steve Jobs introduces MacBook Air, with the tagline 'the world's thinnest notebook'. Three years later, it will come to redefine all of Apple's notebook product line.
- Aug 2011 - Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple, with the words '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.' Tim Cook becomes Apple CEO.
- Oct 2011 - Steve Jobs dies at home, surrounded by his family.
"Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough
to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the
world, and talented enough to do it."
---USA Former President Barack Obama
---USA Former President Barack Obama