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Steven Paul Jobs

1.

Steven Paul jobs
(February 24, October
2011), known as Steve
jobs is an American
entrepreneur and
inventor. He was the
co-founder, Chairman
of the Board of
Directors and chief
Executive officer of
Apple Corporation.

2.

Steven jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in mountain
view, California. His childhood and youth were spent
there, in the foster family of Paul and Clara jobs, to
whom he was given for upbringing. At school,
fascinated by electronics and gravitating to
communicate with older children, jobs meets Steve
Wozniak,his future colleague at Apple. Their first joint
work bordered on hooliganism: the two Steves made a
so-called BlueBox (lit. "Blue box") a device that allowed
you to make free phone calls over long distances. Later,
according to the legend, on the basis of the same
scheme, they built their first joint business. Wozniak
manufactured these devices during his time at
Berkeley, and jobs, as a high school student, sold them.

3.

Steve jobs and Paul
Wozniak (1976)
Steven jobs and
Steven Wozniak
became the founders
of Apple. Engaged in
the production of
computers of its own
design, it was
founded on April 1,
1976, and officially
registered in early
1977. The author of
most of the
developments was
Stephen Wozniak,
while jobs was the
marketer.

4.

Apple II the First
personal computer
introduced by Steve
jobs and Steve
Wozniak was the
Apple I, priced at $
666.66 cents. Later, a
new Apple II computer
was created. The
success of computers
has made Apple a key
player in the personal
computer market. In
December 1980, the
company's first public
stock sale (IPO) took
place, making Steve
jobs a multimillionaire.

5.

Apple Macintosh
computers in the early
1980s, jobs was one of
the first to see the
commercial potential
of a mouse-controlled
graphical user
interface, which led to
the creation of the
Macintosh.

6.

Pixar Animation
Studios, under
jobs ' leadership,
Pixar released
films such as toy
Story and
monster
Corporation,
among others.
Originally
created as a
developer of
high-quality
graphics
hardware.

7.

Jobs and iMac,
the best-selling
computer on the
market (1999) In
1996, Apple
announced that
it would buy
NeXT, bringing
jobs back to the
company he
founded. In 1997
Steve jobs
becomes Apple's
interim chief
Executive. In
2000, the word
"temporary"
disappeared
from the job
title»

8.

The first iPod (2001)
The incredibly
compact and
portable music
player is equipped
with buttons, builtin FM radio,
pedometer, mount
and many other
features.

9.

The first
iPhone (2007)
iPhone is a line
of Quad-band
multimedia
smartphones
developed by
Apple.
Smartphones
combine the
functionality
of an iPod
player, a
Communicator
, and an
Internet tablet.

10.

The first iPad
(2010) is an
Internet tablet
produced by
Apple. The
device was
presented at a
presentation
in San
Francisco by
Steve jobs on
January 27,
2010.

11.

On August 24, 2011,
jobs announced that
he was stepping
down as CEO of
Apple Inc. because
he could no longer
"meet his
responsibilities and
expectations." On
October 5, 2011,
jobs died. The cause
of death was
respiratory arrest
caused by a
malignant
pancreatic tumor.
jobs ' Funeral was
held on October 7,
and their location
was kept secret.
Jobs was married.
He is survived by
four children.
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