Steve Jobs (Steven Paul Jobs, February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was the co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc.. The concept of the personal computer was popularized and Apple was founded by Jobs together with Steve Wozniak. Jobs was also the founder of the famous companies NeXT and Pixar. In the 1980s, the Macintosh series of computers released by Jobs and Jef Raskin also became a major success.
Steve’s Family
Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California, to Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali. Later, he was adopted and raised by Clara (née Hagopian) and Paul Reinhold Jobs.
Jobs’s biological father, Jandali, was of Syrian origin. He grew up in an Arab Muslim household in Homs, Syria. While studying at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, he was active in student movements and was imprisoned for his political activities. Later, after completing his PhD at the University of Wisconsin, he met Schieble, an American Catholic of German and Swiss descent. As a doctoral candidate, Jandali served as the teaching assistant for one of the courses Schieble was studying, even though they were the same age.
College Life
Jobs’s adoptive father worked as a mechanic in the United States Coast Guard. After leaving the Coast Guard, he married Hagopian, who was of Armenian descent, in 1946. Hagopian’s parents were survivors of the Armenian Genocide.
At the age of seventeen, Steve enrolled at Reed College in Portland for his undergraduate studies.
The income of his adoptive father, who worked for a finance company, was not sufficient for the family’s livelihood. Still, they sent Steve to college. However, seeing his father’s financial struggles, Steve eventually dropped out of college.
Career
In 1976, Jobs started Apple with Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. In the 1980s, recognizing the potential of the computer mouse, Jobs introduced the Apple Lisa and later the Macintosh.
In 1983, Jobs convinced John Sculley, the CEO of PepsiCo, to join Apple by asking him the famous question:
“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugar water, or do you want to come with me and change the world?”
However, in a surprising turn of events, the same Sculley removed Jobs from Apple in 1985.
Jobs did not lose hope. He started a company called NeXT Computers. In 1986, Jobs also founded Pixar. The company later produced famous animated films such as Toy Story. When Apple acquired NeXT in 1996, Jobs returned to Apple.
In 2001, Apple introduced the iPod, which revolutionized the music industry. Despite early failures, he experienced commercial success with iTunes in 2003. In 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone.
Jobs played a major role in reviving Apple when the company was on the verge of bankruptcy. Starting with the “Think Different” advertising campaign in 1997, he worked closely with English designer Jony Ive to develop a series of culturally transformative products including the iMac, iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple Store, App Store, and iTunes Store.
In 2001, the completely new operating system Mac OS X (now known as macOS) replaced the original Mac OS. It was based on NeXT’s NeXTSTEP platform and provided a modern Unix-based foundation for the operating system.
On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation as CEO of Apple. In his resignation letter, he stated that Apple’s success story would continue and appointed Tim Cook as his successor.
On February 18, 2011, media reported that Jobs had only about six weeks to live due to Pancreatic Cancer. On October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs passed away in Palo Alto, California, after his illness worsened.
Apple I
The Apple I was a desktop computer released in 1976 by Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.). It was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. Apple I was Apple’s first product. To finance its creation, Jobs sold his only motorized vehicle, a Volkswagen microbus, for a few hundred dollars, while Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $500.
Apple II
The Apple II was an 8-bit home computer and one of the most successful mass-produced microcomputer products in the world, mainly designed by Steve Wozniak. Jobs and Wozniak introduced it at the West Coast Computer Faire 1977. It was the first consumer product sold by Apple Computer, Inc. The Apple II line continued until the production of the Apple IIe was discontinued in November 1993.
Steve and His Visit to India
In 1974, Steve Jobs traveled through India seeking spiritual enlightenment and to study Zen Buddhism. When he returned from India, he had shaved his head and had become a follower of Buddhism.
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