The Life of Steve Jobs

Zachary Fromartz

Childhood

• Born on February 24th, 1955 in San Francisco, California

• Put up for adoption a week after birth

• Adoption was finalized under the condition that Steven would attend college

Education• Skipped 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

• Graduated high school in 1972

• Enrolled in Reed College in Oregon

• Dropped out after one semester

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

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

• Most investors turned Apple down

• Retired Intel executive Mike Markkula decided to invest

• Markkula became chairman of Apple in May 1977

Smooth Sailing (Cont.)• 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

Why Apple so great with Graphics?

• Most important was it was easy to learn at the time compared to other computers

• First commercial computer to use GUI• Macintosh created to compete with PC• Very popular – sold approximately 70,000

Macs in the first 100 days

Presenting Products

• Jobs was extremely enticing when he was presenting his products

• Created a story to tell his audience• He is famous for his product demonstrationsnot just for his work

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

Pixar

• Pixar was Jobs’ second company• Jobs became a major shareholder in1986• Swept the box office with its animated films• On January 24th, 2006, Disney bought out Pixar for $7.4 billion

Conclusion

• Due to pancreatic cancer, he past away 1955-2011

• Jobs is an influential man who learned from his failures and gained maturity from them

• True role model

The new I…..

• What I think apple will be trying to get into is the gaming console market

• Only Sony and Microsoft are in the running• Since gaming consoles sync with phones and

other devices, this is right up Apple’s alleyway