Steven Paul Jobs (* 24 February 1955 in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is a managing director of Apple computer and one of the most well-known figures of the computer industry. Together with Steve Wozniak it created 1976 Apple and helped to make the concept of the home computer with Apple the II popular with the population. Job is beyond that managing director and former owner of the Pixar animation of Studios and thus after a fusion of largest shareholders of Walt Disney.

The recent years

Steve job was born as a son of Joanne Simpson and its Syrian father Abdulfattah ("John") Jandali as Steven Paulis in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Briefly after the birth it was adopted by Paul and Clara job from Mountain View, California. Its biological sister is an authoress Mona Simpson.

for 1972 it made its High School conclusion to the Homestead High School in Cupertino, California and wrote themselves at the Reed college in haven country, however already left it after the first term.

In the autumn 1974 jobs to California and participated in the meetings of the Homebrew computer club returned, where it became acquainted with Steve Wozniak under others also. It and Wozniak accepted both a job with Atari as play designers.

During this time it was discovered that one with a modified toy whistle, which was in each packing of Cap'n Crunch Cornflakes, which 2,600 Hertz clay/tone could produce, which was used with AT&T by the operators, in order to lead long-distance calls. Wozniak built thereupon a Blue box, which could produce this clay/tone. Both began 1974 to sell these boxes it the owner permitted to lead free long-distance calls.

1976 created jobs (21) and Wozniak (26) together with Wayne Apple computer company in jobs garage in Palo Alto, California. Their first, product applied with the apple with bite (byte), was the first home computer, Apple I, which was sold for 666.66 dollar. (The prototype consisted of a tinkered

1977 were introduced the Apple II, which became a large success and Apple made one of the important participants in the home computer market. This computer landed soon USA far on the desks of the small companies and self-employed persons. In December 1980 the transformation took place from Apple into a corporation, job became a successful personality and Apple introduced Apple the III, which became however no comparably large success.

Apple grew further and the enterprise looked for a talentierten manager, who should help to control growth meaningfully. 1983 enlisted jobs Pepsi the manager John Sculley for the post as a managing director with Apple, by provoking Sculley: "You want the world for the remainder of your life sugar water to sell or want you to really In the same year Apple Apple Lisa (designated after Steve job daughter) introduced, which was technologically a revolution, however in view of a selling price of 10,000 dollar during the introduction on the market no success became economical.

1984 were introduced the Macintosh, which represented a milestone in computer history. It was the first commercially successful computer with a graphic user surface. The development of the Macs began with Jef Raskin and its team, which were inspired by the technology, which in Xerox was developed the research center, but had been not commercially used. The success of the Macintosh brought Apple to give Apple the II up for the Macintosh line which is pursued until today.

The way course by Apple

While job a convincing and charismatischer EH gelist for Apple was, some critics draw the picture of a erratischen and stormy manager. After an internal struggle for power jobs 1985 by its task by Sculley and the company was relieved had to leave.

After Apple had left jobs, it created a further computer company on behalf of NEXT computers. As is the case for the Lisa was the NEXT workstation the other devices at the market technologically far ahead, became however never popular, except within the scientific research range. (Tim Berners Lee originally developed the World Wide Web at Swiss institute for CERN on a NEXT workstation.) NEXT one shone with progressive technologies like object-oriented programming, display PostScript and magnetooptic drive assemblies. Early versions of Mac OS X had a great many features of the NEXT operating system, and also today the NEXT roots are visible still in some places in Mac OS X.

The return to Apple

1996 bought Apple NEXT one for $ 402 million and brought jobs back into the enterprise, which he had based. It exercised from now to an advisory assistance. In August 1997 it became member of the executive committee shortly thereafter and, after the Rausschmiss of Gil Amelio in September, temporary managing director of the company.

With the purchase of NEXT one much technology of the company was integrated into the Apple products. Mainly NEXT steps, which in Mac OS X was renamed. Under jobs guidance was introduced 1998 iMac, which helped, to lead the fastened company back into the profit area. With the portable MP3-Playern iPod, the Jukebox software of iTunes and that iTunes Music net curtain the company up to then a existenten market for "digitally Lifestyle" created - products.

Jobs worked at Apple over several years for an annual salary of 1 dollar and thereby to the Guinness book of the records as schlechtestbezahlter managing directors one took up. Since Apple became again a profit yielding enterprise, the company removed in January 2001 "temporarily" from its title managing directors. Its present salary amounts to officially further 1 dollar per year, whereby it receives however some exclusive gifts from the management; for example a 90-Millionen-Dollar-Jet in the year '99, which he rents in the unused time Apple, as well as nearly 30 million portions Apple shares 2000-2002.

Pixar

1986 created jobs with Edwin Catmull the Pixar Inc., a Computerzeichentrickfilm Studio in Emeryville, California. It was originally part of the Lucasfilm Grafikabteilung, which bought jobs of the founder George Lucas for 10 million dollar (a third of the original price). Pixar became nearly one decade later famous and successfully with Toy story. Since then they produced large crawling (1998), Toy story 2 (1999), the monsters AG (2001), find Nemo! (2003), the unbelievable ones (2004), Cars - cars as we (2006)

For Nemo finds! and Pixar received the unbelievable ones the OSCAR for the best animated feature.

On 24 January 2006 the medium and Entertainment company communicated Walt Disney after US stock exchange conclusion that it the Pixar Inc. for 7,4 billion dollar will take over. As part of the Deals Pixar CEO Steve job was taken up to the board of Disney. Besides jobs with its portion of 6% of the shares of largest shareholders became with Disney.

Private life

Laurene Powell married jobs to 18. March 1991 and has three children with it. In addition it has an illegitimate daughter, Lisa job. Into the 70ern had it in addition a relationship with the Folk and protest singer Joan Baez.

On 31 July 2004 it underwent of an operation, with which a cancer tumor was removed from its pancreas. It did not have a very rare form of the pancreas cancer, the chemotherapy or radiotherapy made necessary. During its absence Tim Cook (Chief operating Officer) led the enterprise.

Validity

Steve job is considered as one of most influential humans of the IT-industry. His company Apple introduced some technologies into the market, which would enjoy otherwise today no so large popularity in the last years. In addition count the computer mouse, USB, WiFi, FireWire and DVD burner. Disputed is however its discord with Jef Raskin, to whose drafts some the innovative novelties of the Macintosh decrease/go back. Beside its sense of business and his inclination to bear no king beside itself jobs always put an unusual Kraft to the day, which later animated films, the world-wide most successful MP3-Players not only to the penetration of the Microcomputers in the commercial world and the graphic user surface with computers, but also to the creation first completely and to the introduction of the first successful on-line music service led.

Jobs one admires for the kind, as it can convince and to them somewhat sell others, so that one it a "Reality Distortion Field" (deu.: reality-changing field) after-said, it permits to convince people also from appearing paradoxical opinions to. One attributes likewise the popularity nearly bordering on Fanatismus, which he enjoys on the regular Keynotes of the Macworld Expos and the WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference, an annually taking place conference of developer of Apple to this "field"). However its decisions of everywhere far agreement enjoy of not all. The efforts of market of Apple in the 80's, which were exzellent from the technical point of view, alienated firm customers from Apple. These turned thereupon at IBM, with the result that Apple lost substantial market shares. Microsoft reduced of the far guidance of Apple by its graphic user surface Windows developed many later.

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