Steve Jobs, From College Dropout To Apple Visionary

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Steve Jobs, From College Dropout To Apple Visionary
Glenn Chapman | January 18, 2011

San Francisco. Apple joint founder Steve Jobs is a living legend in Silicon Valley, the man who gave the world not just a single iconic product but four.

The visionary behind the Macintosh computer, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, Jobs announced this week that he was taking a medical leave of absence for unspecified health issues.

Born on Feb. 24, 1955, in San Francisco to a single mother and adopted by a couple in nearby Mountain View at barely a week old, Jobs grew up among the orchards that would one day become the technology hub known as Silicon Valley.

As a high school student, Jobs attended lectures at Hewlett-Packard in nearby Palo Alto and worked a summer job there with engineer Steve Wozniak.

Jobs left Reed College in Portland, Oregon, after a single semester, but continued to take classes.

When he was 20, Jobs made a spiritual journey to India, returning with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian garb.

He got work as a technician for video game pioneer Atari and attended a garage club called “Homebrew Computer Club” with Wozniak, a fellow northern California boy.

Wozniak was also a college dropout. Jobs was 21 and Wozniak 26 when they founded Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs’s family home in 1976.

While Microsoft licensed its software to computer makers that cranked out machines priced for the masses, Apple kept its technology private and catered to people willing to pay for superior performance and design.

Under Jobs, the company introduced its first Apple computers and then the Macintosh, which became wildly popular in the 1980s. Apple’s innovations included the “computer mouse” to make it easy for users to activate programs or open files.

Jobs was elevated to idol status by ranks of Macintosh computer devotees, many of whom saw themselves as a sort of rebel alliance opposing the empire Microsoft built with its ubiquitous Windows operating systems.

Jobs, who became the more public face of Apple, went from celebrity bachelor days that included a relationship with folk singer Joan Baez to settling into family life in Palo Alto.

He married in 1991 in a ceremony presided over by a Buddhist monk.
He has three children by his wife and has a daughter with a woman he dated prior to marrying.

Jobs left Apple in 1985 after an internal power struggle and started NeXT Computer company specializing in sophisticated workstations for businesses.

He jointly founded Pixar in 1986 from a former Lucasfilm computer graphics unit that Jobs reportedly bought from movie industry titan George Lucas for $10 million.

It became a scrappy, creative studio that produced box-office movie hits including “Toy Story” and “Finding Nemo.”

Apple’s luster faded after Jobs left the company, but they reconciled in 1996 with Apple buying NeXT for $429 million and Jobs ascending once again to the Apple throne.

Since then, Jobs has gone from strength to strength, revamping the Macintosh line, launching the iPod MP3 digital music player in 2001 and the online music store iTunes in 2003.

Jobs underwent an operation for pancreatic cancer in 2004 but bounced back three years later with the hugely popular touchscreen iPhone.

Walt Disney bought Pixar, meanwhile, in a $7.4 billion deal in 2006 that gave Jobs a seat on its board and made him the entertainment titan’s biggest single shareholder.

Jobs went on medical leave in January 2009 but returned to work in June after undergoing a liver transplant.

In January 2010 Jobs unveiled his latest creation, the iPad, which went on sale in April and has set the industry standard for touchscreen tablet computers.

In May of last year, Apple surpassed Microsoft as the largest US technology company in market value.

In revealing his latest health challenge, Jobs said he would continue as chief executive and be involved in major strategic decisions. “I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can,” he said.


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[gohsanho]

Apple market cap exceeded US$300B recently, wonder how many countries is worth that amount compare with one single company.

 

[longbow]

Never knew that he was adopted. His biological father - where the genes came from was a Syrian Muslim



Jobs was born in San Francisco[1] and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs (née Hagopian[24]) of Mountain View, California, who named him Steven Paul. Paul and Clara later adopted a daughter, who they named Patti. Jobs' biological parents – Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian Muslim[25] graduate student who later became a political science professor,[26] and Joanne Simpson, an American graduate student[25] who went on to become a speech therapist[27] – later married, giving birth to and raising Jobs' biological sister, the novelist Mona Simpson.

 

[Dreamer1]

Never knew that he was adopted. His biological father - where the genes came from was a Syrian Muslim



Jobs was born in San Francisco[1] and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs (née Hagopian[24]) of Mountain View, California, who named him Steven Paul. Paul and Clara later adopted a daughter, who they named Patti. Jobs' biological parents – Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian Muslim[25] graduate student who later became a political science professor,[26] and Joanne Simpson, an American graduate student[25] who went on to become a speech therapist[27] – later married, giving birth to and raising Jobs' biological sister, the novelist Mona Simpson.

This is what MM LKY strongly believes,mix and match,he saw it in USA.

Obama-Kenya father with white mother.


Steve Jobs -Syrian father with white mother.


Cutrrently the two most influential Americans.
MM LKY should note the intellectual power of muslims and throw away his belief that Muslims CMI!

 

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Never knew that he was adopted. His biological father - where the genes came from was a Syrian Muslim



Jobs was born in San Francisco[1] and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs (née Hagopian[24]) of Mountain View, California, who named him Steven Paul. Paul and Clara later adopted a daughter, who they named Patti. Jobs' biological parents – Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian Muslim[25] graduate student who later became a political science professor,[26] and Joanne Simpson, an American graduate student[25] who went on to become a speech therapist[27] – later married, giving birth to and raising Jobs' biological sister, the novelist Mona Simpson.

Does genes play a role in inherited intelligence ? Perhaps yes.
But talent and vision, it may not come from genes at all.

John Lennon. ( Beatles ). His father was a drunk who deserted the family
when the kids were young while the mother was an ordinary lady.

Albert Einstein. His father was a small time unsuccessful businessman.
Mother, an housewife.
There are many such talented and outstanding people with humble
backgrounds.

And there are notorious criminals whose parents come from famous aristocratic families.

There are certain human traits like personality, leadership and talent, that are beyond genetics.

 

[tonychat]

This is what MM LKY strongly believes,mix and match,he saw it in USA.

Obama-Kenya father with white mother.


Steve Jobs -Syrian father with white mother.


Cutrrently the two most influential Americans.
MM LKY should note the intellectual power of muslims and throw away his belief that Muslims CMI!

MM LKY is a mottherfukkin dumbfuck twit. It is not about gene that makes a person talented and creative. It is the environment that is free and democratic that makes the people creative and dare to do things out of the ordinary.

LKY old fart has create an environment that causes people to become his pathetic serf and heavy on rules. And still he want to talks about his low IQ theory on genes lead to intelligence.

Even if the person is intelligent, the sinkie education and the environment that is created will make anyone stupid and having a serf mentality. That is why sinkie has not much of a success in the international field to be shout about.

 

[longbow]

Surprisingly, his real sister is also brilliant!

She is an accompolished author and Prof at UCLA. Here we are talk about different family upbringing. The only link is the genes and both seem pretty creative and smart. I would not say that his sister is lacking in talent and vision.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Simpson_(novelist)

Does genes play a role in inherited intelligence ? Perhaps yes.
But talent and vision, it may not come from genes at all.

John Lennon. ( Beatles ). His father was a drunk who deserted the family
when the kids were young while the mother was an ordinary lady.

Albert Einstein. His father was a small time unsuccessful businessman.
Mother, an housewife.
There are many such talented and outstanding people with humble
backgrounds.

And there are notorious criminals whose parents come from famous aristocratic families.

There are certain human traits like personality, leadership and talent, that are beyond genetics.

 

[tonychat]

Surprisingly, his real sister is also brilliant!

She is an accompolished author and Prof at UCLA. Here we are talk about different family upbringing. The only link is the genes and both seem pretty creative and smart. I would not say that his sister is lacking in talent and vision.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Simpson_(novelist)

both of them are from the USA. A place where freedom take priority and creativity is nurtured at its best.

Sinkies and sinkieland will never understand that and will link all things to gene.