SUN RISE IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS - APPLE
With
Disney company, one man had made a contract of three animated film, had been
thrown out from his own company. Think, you are a founder of a company and
other kicked out you from yours founded Company. What a horrible situation to
accept. But this guy born on 24 February1955 in San Francisco, California had
gone through such a hard (Dark Night) of his life. Who can forget this
entrepreneur? He was Steve Jobs. Surprised? Must be.
His
birth father and mother were Abdulfattah "John" Jandali and Swiss-American
Joanne Carole Schieble, and He was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs and
Clara Jobs. Clara Jobs had not graduated from college and Paul Jobs had only
attended high school, but signed final adoption papers after they promised her
that the child would definitely be encouraged and supported to attend college.
Later, when asked about his "adoptive parents", Jobs replied emphatically
that Paul and Clara Jobs "were my parents. He stated in his authorized biography
that they "were my parents 1,000% Walter
Isaacson wrote in his authorized
biography about Steve Jobs that Steve had told him, "Paul and Clara are
100% my parents. And Joanna and Abdulfattah—are only a sperm and an egg bank.
It's not rude, it is the truth.
The adopted
son Steve Jobs showed interest in electronics and gadgetry. While in high school,
he boldly called Hewlett-Packard co-founder and president William Hewlett to
ask for parts for a school project. Impressed by Jobs, Hewlett not only gave
him the parts, but also offered him a summer internship at Hewlett-Packard. It
was there that Jobs met and befriended Steve Wozniak, a young engineer five
years his senior with a penchant for tinkering.
After
graduating from high school, Jobs enrolled in Reed College but dropped out
after one semester. He had become fascinated by Eastern spiritualism, and he
took a part-time job designing video games for Atari in order to finance a trip
to India to study Eastern culture and religion. He visited India, travelled
India and stayed in India for almost 9 months in 1974 and returned to U.S.
When Jobs
returned to the U.S. he renewed his friendship with Wozniak, who had been trying
to build a small computer. For Wozniak, it was just a hobby, but the visionary
Jobs grasped the marketing potential of such a device and convinced Wozniak to
go into business with him. In 1975, the 20-year-old Jobs and Wozniak set up
shop in Jobs' parents' garage, dubbed the venture Apple, and began working on
the prototype of the Apple I. To generate the $1,350 in capital they used
to start Apple, Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen microbus, and Steve Wozniak sold
his Hewlett-Packard calculator.
Although the
Apple I sold mainly to hobbyists, it generated enough cash to enable Jobs and
Wozniak to improve and refine their design. In 1977, they introduced the Apple
II -- the first personal computer with color graphics and a keyboard. Designed
for beginners the user-friendly Apple II was a tremendous success, ushering in
the era of the personal computer. First-year sales topped $3 million. Two years
later, sales ballooned to $200 million.
But by 1980,
Apple's shine was starting to wear off. Increased competition combined with
less than stellar sales of the Apple III and its follow-up, the LISA, caused
the company to lose nearly half its market to IBM. Faced with declining sales,
Jobs introduced the Apple Macintosh in 1984. The first personal computer to
feature a graphical-user interface controlled by a mouse, the Macintosh was a
true breakthrough in terms of ease-of-use. But the marketing behind it was
flawed. Jobs had envisioned the Mac as a home computer, but at $2,495, it was
too expensive for the consumer market. When consumer sales failed to reach
projections, Jobs tried pitching the Mac as a business computer. But with
little memory, no hard drive and no networking capabilities, the Mac had almost
none of the features corporate America wanted.
For Jobs, this turn of
events spelled serious trouble. He clashed with Apple's board of directors and,
in 1983, Apple’s board of directors removed Jobs from his managerial duties as
head of the Macintosh division. Founder himself had to quit the company-what a
situation for Steve Jobs-called Dark Night just started. He got the removal
massage from the board by CEO John Sculley, whom Jobs had handpicked to help
him run Apple. Stripped of all power and control, With no duties and exiled,
Jobs stopped coming to work and later resigned as a Chairman. After
unsuccessfully applying to fly on the Space Shuttle as
a civilian
astronaut and briefly considering starting a computer company in
the Soviet Union. Jobs eventually sold his shares of Apple stock and resigned
in 1985 – Night stated for one the founder of Apple Company.
Later that
year, using a portion of the money from the stock sale, Jobs launched NeXT
Computer Co., with the goal of building a breakthrough computer that would
revolutionize research and higher education. But priced at $9,950, the NeXT was
too expensive to attract enough sales to keep the company afloat. Undeterred,
Jobs switched the company's focus from hardware to software. He began paying
more attention to his other business, Pixar Animation Studios, which he had
purchased from George Lucas in 1986.
After cutting
a three-picture deal with Disney, Jobs set out to create the first ever
computer-animated feature film. Four years in the making, "Toy Story"
was a certified smash hit when it was released in November 1995. After nearly
10 years of struggling, Jobs had finally hit it big. At this great moment Steve
realised that
SUN
RISE
IN
HIS LIFE
The best was
yet to come in Sun Light.
At the end of March 1997,
Apple announced a quarterly loss of $708 million. Apple bought NeXT for $400
million and re-appointed Jobs to Apple's board of directors as an advisor to
Apple chairman and CEO Gilbert F. Amelio.
But Apple's
innovations were just getting started. Over the next decade, the company rolled
out a series of revolutionary products, including the iPod in 2001, iTunes
Store in 2003, the iPhone handset in 2007 and the iPad tablet computer in
2010.Apple has sold more than 300 million iPods, over 100 million iPhones and
more than 15 million iPad devices.
Steve after
becoming a giant entrepreneur died on 5th December, 2011 making the
Apple Brand value at a sky high. Today having an Apple Brand in hand measured
as a status and standard of living.
Michelle
and I are saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Jobs. 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.
By
building one of the planet’s most successful companies from his garage, he
exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity. By making computers
personal and putting the internet in our pockets, he made the information
revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun. And by turning his
talents to storytelling, he has brought joy to millions of children and
grownups alike. Steve was fond of saying that he lived every day like it was
his last. Because he did, he transformed our lives, redefined entire
industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed
the way each of us sees the World. The World has lost a visionary. “Salute
to this fighter American “US President Mr Obama said on Steve’s death.
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