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Steve Jobs Speaks
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Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California. Other than his birth date, he never found out much about his biological parents up until later in life when he became famous. A few weeks after his birth, his biological mother legally gave Steve Jobs for adoption to Paul and Clara living in San Francisco. They had been trying for the last ten years to have a child.

Steve and Woj together started selling ‘Blue Boxes’ to students in an illegal manner. The students would take it to make free calls. The ‘Square Newspaper’ in October 1971, had disclosed the manner of making it. Before starting work in accordance with the law they had earned 6,000 dollars.

Steve finished high school and then took admission in Reed College but after one session he left the college and started living like a nomad. In Reed College, he met Dan Kottke who later made the Apple 1 and also inspected it.

Apple was established. Steve Jobs (45% shares), Wozniak (45% shares) and Ronal Wayne (10% shares) became its founders. Wayne thought that he couldn’t take a risk and so he sold his shares equally to Steve and Wozniak for 800 dollars.     

The first office was opened in California in Stevens Bookie Boulevard.

Steve got an order of 50 computers from California’s Mount View’s Byte Shop.     

Steve and Kotke presented Apple 1 in a personal computer festival while Wozniak had started his work on Apple 2.

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Publishermds0
Release dateAug 30, 2017
ISBN9781386194828
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    Steve Jobs Speaks

    M. Sharma

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    Table of Contents

    1. Steve Jobs : A Brief Biography

    2. Desktop DNA

    Desktop

    Detail

    Difference

    Difficult

    Discouraged

    Discovery

    Disease

    DNA

    Dollar

    Dot

    Dots

    Dramatic

    Dream

    Emphasized

    Engineering

    Enthusiastic

    Every

    Everyone

    Experience

    Experiences

    Expert

    Faith

    Father

    Figure

    Find

    Fire

    Focus

    Foundation

    Future

    Generation

    Give up

    Goal

    God

    Greatest Thing

    Grow up

    Harder

    Here

    History

    Honest

    Human

    Tablet

    Tablets

    Technique

    Techniques

    Technologies

    3. Steve Jobs: Technology

    Temptation

    Thing

    Things

    Think

    Time

    Tool

    Tools

    Top Line

    Track

    Trade

    True

    Understand

    Universe

    View

    Virgin

    Vision

    Volkswagen Bug

    IBM

    Idea

    Ideal

    Identity

    iMac

    Important

    Industry

    Innovate

    Innovation

    Internet

    Intuition

    Invent

    Inventing

    Invention

    Inventions

    iPhone

    iPod

    iTunes

    Japan

    Japanese

    Job

    Join

    Journey

    Lead

    4. Life, Love and Luck

    Love

    Learn

    Lucky

    Mac

    Macintosh

    Man

    Mantras

    Market

    Microsoft

    Mind

    Mirror

    Mistakes

    Model

    Moment

    Money

    Monopoly

    Mother

    Motivations

    Mouse

    Music

    Mystery

    Nature

    Needle

    Network

    NeXT

    Number

    Observation

    Opportunities

    Opportunity

    Orchestra

    Passion

    PC

    People

    Perfect

    Person

    Perspective

    Piracy

    Pirate

    Pleasure

    Poet

    Pointing

    Principle

    Problem

    5. Product and Quality

    Profit

    Proud

    Provoke

    Purpose

    Pushing

    Qualifications

    Qualitative

    Quality

    Quote

    Advantage

    Advertisements

    Aim

    Alto

    Amazing

    Android

    Approach

    Artist

    Atari

    Atmosphere

    Bach

    Belief

    Believe

    Believer

    Bell

    Bigger

    Bill Gates

    Black

    Book

    Books and music

    Box

    Builders

    Business

    Buttons

    Cancer

    Cannibal

    Career

    Carpenter

    Cash

    Cent

    CEO

    Challenge

    Change

    Changing

    Chip

    Click

    Closet

    6. Apple Company

    Company

    Competence

    Computer

    Concentration

    Confused

    Context

    Contribution

    Control

    Courage

    Creativity

    Customer

    Customers

    Dacoit

    Day

    Death

    Decide

    Decision

    7. Design Research

    Reason

    Recruiting

    Reinvent

    Relation

    Remember

    Remembering

    Replaced

    Research

    Resource

    Respect

    Responsibility

    Responsible

    Result

    Revolution

    Rewarding

    School

    Science

    Sense

    Settle

    Shameless

    Silicon

    Sit

    Sleep

    Slowly

    Sofa

    Software

    Songs

    Sony

    Sorry

    Soul

    Special

    Stay

    Styles

    Stylus

    8. Wonderful Success

    Swallow

    System

    Watching

    Wealth

    What

    Wish

    Wonderful

    WordStar

    Work

    World

    Woz

    Woz and I

    Year

    You

    Young

    1. Steve Jobs : A Brief Biography

    Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California. Other than his birth date, he never found out much about his biological parents up until later in life when he became famous. A few weeks after his birth, his biological mother legally gave Steve Jobs for adoption to Paul and Clara living in San Francisco. They had been trying for the last ten years to have a child.

    Important Dates and Incidents

    1995

    On 24th February in San Francisco, Steve Jobs was born his biological mother Joan Simpson and biological father Abdul Fateh John Jandali. Paul Jobs and Clara Jobs had adopted him and later named him Steve Jobs.

    1966

    Jobs family came and settled down in California’s Los Altos. Steve’s admission was taken in Homestead High School, where he got attracted to music and technology. He became very fond of Bob Dhillon and Beetle’s music.

    1971

    Steve met Apple’s co-founder Stefan Wozniak.

    1972

    Steve and Woj together started selling ‘Blue Boxes’ to students in an illegal manner. The students would take it to make free calls. The ‘Square Newspaper’ in October 1971, had disclosed the manner of making it. Before starting work in accordance with the law they had earned 6,000 dollars.

    Steve finished high school and then took admission in Reed College but after one session he left the college and started living like a nomad. In Reed College, he met Dan Kottke who later made the Apple 1 and also inspected it.

    1974

    In this year in September, he joined a job in video gaming company ‘Atari’. He also started going to a computer club where computer specialists gathered.

    1976

    Apple was established. Steve Jobs (45% shares), Wozniak (45% shares) and Ronal Wayne (10% shares) became its founders. Wayne thought that he couldn’t take a risk and so he sold his shares equally to Steve and Wozniak for 800 dollars. 

    The first office was opened in California in Stevens Bookie Boulevard.

    Steve got an order of 50 computers from California’s Mount View’s Byte Shop. 

    Steve and Kotke presented Apple 1 in a personal computer festival while Wozniak had started his work on Apple 2.

    1977

    To get one-third shares of Apple a person namely Mike Murkula invested 91 thousand dollars in the company and also organized a loan of 2,50,000 dollars from Bank of America.

    Apple presented Apple 2 in San Francisco’s Computer Fair which was 1,298 dollars worth.

    1978

    In January in Las Vegas, Apple presented a floppy disk drive for Apple 2 during the Consumer Electronics Show. For the business world, Apple 3 was launched. Steve was now involved in making Lisa Computer (Local Integrated Software Architecture) for the business world.

    Apple appointed Mike Scott (a worker in National Semiconductor) as the CEO of their company. 

    Steve’s present lover Kris gave birth to his first daughter Lisa. Steve didn’t take up her responsibility but had to take it up when the court orders arrived after the DNA test. 

    1979

    Steve and his co – workers went for a trip of inspection to Xerox Park which was very important for him. The trip forced him to think about the future inventions.

    Apple launched ‘Apple to Plan’ which was worth 1,195 dollars.

    An electronic spreadsheet was introduced for Apple 2 which in turn increased its sales.

    1980

    Apple’s public IPO’s 46 lakh shares were sold. Initially, each share was worth 22 dollars. The stock was closed on 29 dollars each share. Apple was now estimated to be of 1.778 Arab dollars worth.

    1981

    Apple launched Apple 3 in the market but 14 thousand computers had to be taken back because of the complicated design.

    To replace the expensive Lisa Computers, the Apple team got together to build Macintosh.

    There came a ‘Black Wednesday’ in the history of Apple when it’s CEO Mike Scott without taking permission kicked out half of the Apple To Plan workers from their jobs. The founders and board of members removed him from his post and Mike Murkula was made the new CEO.

    Steve took up the post of the Chairman of the Board of Members and Mike Murkula remained the CEO.

    IBM launched IBM PC 5150 personal computer in the market for 1,565 dollars. Steve Jobs described this computer technically weak but the business community vouched for negation to Steve’s statement and instead of Apple’s products they started giving importance to IBM products.

    1982

    For developing Macintosh’s three features – spreadsheet, database and business graphics, Microsoft Company’s owner Bill Gates had done a settlement.

    ‘TIME’ magazine made Steve Jobs as their cover story and gave the title as ‘America’s Risk Takers – Steve Jobs of Apple Computer.’

    Steve Jobs purchased one apartment in San Remo’s area in New York. Many famous celebrities lived in this building. Steve had purchased top two floors and it was decorated by I.M. Pai after spending lots of money. But Jobs never came to stay here and later he had sold it.

    In ‘TIME’ magazine instead of announcing Steve Job as the ‘Man of the Year’ they announced the personal computer made by him as the ‘Machine of the Year’.

    1983

    Steve Jobs went in front of New York’s powerful Media for launching ‘Lisa Computer’. There he met PEPSICO’s official John Schooly. He had got very much interested in him and then he took him to Apple.

    On 19th January Apple launched Lisa Computer in the market at the price of 9,995 dollars.

    Apple later stopped manufacturing ‘Apple to Team’ computer and started manufacturing ‘Apple to E’ computer.

    On 8th June Apple appointed John Sculley as Apple’s CEO. 

    1984

    Apple launched its first Macintosh computer in the market. For the publicity of this computer commercial advertisement with the title ‘1984’ was made with the expenditure of twelve lakh dollars and their advertisement was directed by Ridley Scott. This advertisement was shown on television. Macintosh was world’s first G.U.I. computer. The cost price of this computer was between 1,995 to 2,395 dollars.

    On 14th January ‘Lisa 2’ was launched in the market. The rate of its different models was 3,495 dollars, 4,495 dollars, and 5,495 dollars.

    Steve Jobs purchased a 17 thousand square feet house, ‘Jackling House’ in California’s wood side.

    For publishing Macintosh’s advertisements for November and December months, Apple had purchased 39 pages advertisements rights of ‘News Weeks’ election publication.

    1985

    Lazer type writer was launched in the market at a price of 6,995 dollars.

    Lisa has later launched again in the market as Macintosh Excel with the price with the expectations that the sales would increase but it did not happen so.

    Apple’s co – founder Wojniyak was fed up of his symbolic role and hence he resigned from his post on 6th February in order to open his new company and could pay attention to the invention of electronic products.

    After taking permission from Apple’s Board of Directors then John Schooly had freed Steve Jobs from the chief post of Mac Division. (In 2010 Schooly’s interview with Lander Kany he expressed his request in not allowing Jobs to beat his position, At that time we had thought our doing so to be appropriate but we shouldn’t have done so. For that mistake, I feel myself to be guilty. If it would not have happened so then Apple would not have gone through the bad times.)

    With the feeling of being cheated and considering the future of Apple Steve Jobs keeping one share of Apple with him then sold off the rest of the shares in the market at the price of 7.15 billion dollars.

    Xerox Park’s Allen had told Steve Jobs that George Lucas wanted to sell Pixar. Steve wanted to buy it but he was not ready to pay 3 billion dollars.

    On 14th June 12 workers of Apple were fired.

    On 1st August the sales of Macintosh Excel stopped.

    On 13th September Steve told Apple that he is going to establish another computer company by the name NeXT. Apple encouraged him and proposed him to make Apple his investing partner.

    President Ronald Regan awarded Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak with ‘National Medal of Technology’.

    1986

    On 29th January Apple’s CEO and President John Schooly became the Chairman.

    After closing the production of basic ‘Macintosh’ Apple launched ‘Macintosh – 512’ in the market at a price of 2,000 dollars.

    Steve Jobs purchased Graphics Group from George Lucas in one million dollars. This company was later named ‘Pixar’. This company was later named as ‘Pixar’. Steve was the CEO of it with 50.1% share holding.

    Pixar in the form

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