Youth Apple s Early Years Macintosh The Next Years Comeback Apple back on track The iPod Revolution

lution Apple Inc. Conclusion

YOUTH OF STEVEN JOBS (1955-1975)

y Steven Paul was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955 y His biological parents where unwed college graduates Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali y Steve Paul was adopted by lower middle class couple named Paul and Clara jobs. y He grew up in a valley of apricot which was later known as famous Silicon Valley. y He met a computer whiz kid named Stephen Wozniak. y Steve Jobs reached college age and decided he would go to REED college in Oregon. y He dropped out college after one semester.

APPLES EARLY YEARS (1975-1981)

THE IDEA OF THE APPLE

Steve was focused on Woz work on

Computer board. It was the Hombrew Club where he got the idea of designing his own computer. Apples first year in business consisted of assembling the boards in Steves garage and driving to local computer stores to try and sell them. Woz worked on a new much improved computer, the Apple II which was a breakthrough computer,much more advanced than anything in market.

BIRTH OF THE APPLE COMPANY

Steve made a deal with Mike

Markulla, an enthusiastic former Intel executive who invested $250000 in their business and assured them their company would enter the Fortune 500 list in less than two years. The Apple II soon became the symbol of personal computing revolution worldwide. The Company grew at very fast rate and went public after just four years of existence, in December 1980.

BIRTH OF THE APPLE COMPANY

y Steve Jobs net worth passed the $200 million

mark on that day- he was just 25. dayy Apples success was threatened by industry giant IBM . y Apple had to fight back, their Apple III computer had already bombed on the market. y He had named it after his ex-girlfriends daughter exnamed Lisa. y Apple was the first company to bring GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE COMPUTER in the market.

ELECTRONICS 1 CLASS, STEVE JOBS WAS VERY WELL KNOWN

MACINTOSH (1981-1985)
y Steve Jobs was soon thrown out of the LISA project thrown because he was considered too temperamental as a manager. y Deeply angry he took revenge by taking over a small project called MACINTOSH. y Macintosh was in development since 1979 and its concept was a COMPUTER AS EASY TO USE AS A TOASTER y He recruited brilliant young engineers in his MAC team. y MAC project was controversial as it threatened both Apple II and LISA. y Apples third flop will make it out of business,atlast the CEO John Sculley whom Steve Jobs recruited decided to make Steve Jobs as a chairman of board and did not allloted him any of the managerial duties.

MACINTOSH
Steve was stunned by

this. Apple was his life and he was kicked out of it. He started travelling where he met a brilliant computer graphics experts. He started a company for $10 million in 1986 incorporating it as PIXAR.

THE NEXT YEARS (1985-1995)

y In September 1985, Steve Jobs announced to the Apple board that he was going to found a new company called NeXT, to build an advanced computer for higher education and scientific research. y He was going to take with him some of the best engineers and salesmen from the Mac team. y Apple disapproved and threatened to sue him. It was at that point that Steve left his company for good and sold almost all of his stock in disgust. y NeXt started work on its computer in early 1986,after Apple dropped its lawsuit. y Steve aimed at the highest possible standards for his new machine:he wanted the best hardware, built in the worlds most automated factory.

THE NEXT YEARS

y The NeXt Cube didnt sell. It was overpriced and missing useful software. y NeXt struggled for years to sell it. The Company was bleeding money and all its co-founders left one after other. coy Steve was devasted. In addition, his investment in Pixar also seemed to lead nowhere. y The small company had tried to sell advanced graphic workstations since it had been founded without any success. y Hope was brought by a contract with Disney to make a full feature film with computer in 1991. But by the end of 1993,the contract was canceled by Burbank. y Steve had reached the nadir of his career.

STEVE JOBS WITH HIS DAUGHTER LISA

COMEBACK OF STEVE JOBS

Fortunately as John Lasseter came back to Disney with an improved script for the feature film called TOY STORY,the project got back on track. The movie was to be released for Thanksgiving 1995. Steve Jobs realized what an incredible power the Disney brand was. He decided Pixar would go public the week after the release of Toy Story.

TOY STORY
Toy Storys box office

success was only surpassed by the Pixar stocks success on Wall Street. Steve Jobs, who owned 80% of the company, saw his net worth rise to over $1.5 billion- five times the billionmoney he had ever made at Apple in the 1980s!

APPLES BAD CONDITION

Speaking of Apple, the fruit company was in the midst of his worst year. Steve Jobs was away and Apple started losing market share at an alarming rate. Apple paid $400 million to acquire NeXt and Steve was back to the company that had thrown him out. Apples losses of $700 million for the first quarter of 1997.

APPLES BAD CONDITION

Steve Jobs organized a

board and started an extensive review of the whole company, cutting the number of projects. He also made shocking announcement that Apple would be teaming up with archarchrival Microsoft.

APPLE BACK ON TRACK (1998-2001)

APPLE BACK ON TRACK

y Steve Jobs quickly gave confidence back to the Apple

y y

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community. The Company launched a new slogan: THINK DIFFERENT spreading the idea that people who used Macs were dreamers who could change the world. Six months after Steve Jobs had led the Company to profitability. Steve introduced a new, amazing consumer desktop computer: iMac introduced in May 1998, it was Apples first really innovative product. iMac was a hot seller and design innovations continued throughout 1998 and 1999 with the colored iMacs, iBook. Steve Jobs had brought Apple back to greatness. He finally became full time CEO of two companies at the same time

~THINK DIFFERENT

THE IPOD REVOLUTION

Greatest momentum for Apple came

from an unexpected source the iPod. iPods breakthrough features- its featuresbeautiful design, its brilliant user interface and click wheel. For the first time, people were buying Macs just to see they could use the little music player. As of 2006, after Apple had continually pushed innovation in its music business. It had become the undisputed leader of the new digital music era. iPods market share was close to 75%

THE IPHONE

THE INTRODUCTION OF IPHONE BY STEVE JOBS

The first model of iPhone Steve Jobs with iPhone

APPLE INC. (2006-TODAY)

Apple Inc. became the

great success after the Mac. Several factors accounted for this historic change the success of iPod. Steve had announced in 2005 that the company would start using Intel processors in their Macs. Intel Macs were faster and cheaper.

APPLE INC.
y The biggest move of course came in January 2007, when Steve Jobs introduced iPhone at Macworld. y Its beautiful hardware ran no less than Apples full technology. Its multi-touch technology, web surfing and multiiPod capabilities and more made it a smart phone. y Steve Jobs changed APPLE COMPUTED INC. to APPLE INC. y Steve Jobs got trapped in various frauds but later charges were took from him. y Later then in 2003 it came to know that Steve was suffering from pancreatic cancer. y Steve Jobs took six months off as he was awaiting a liver transplant.

I-PAD
2010 has seen the incredible rebirth to Steve Jobs as a very active CEO. The biggest announcement of all was iPad, Apples iOs based tablet, Steve unveiled it on January 27, 2010 This one man Steve Jobs have played a crucial part in both giving birth and putting an end to personal Computer industry.

CONCLUSION
Steve Jobs is undeniably an

extraordinary extraordinary man by any standard. The middle class hippie kid with no college education, built a computer empire and became a multi-millionaire, multiwas fired from its own company and saved it.

CONCLUSION
y One of the worlds most influential

corporations with millions of forms around the world. y He has changed millions of lives by making technology easy to use exciting and beautiful And you know what the best part?? Hes not done yet