The Wizard of Apple

The Wizard of Apple

Steven Paul Jobs is called the Wizard of Apple. Steve Paul Jobs is the pioneer of personal computer revolution. He has been described as a showman, artist, tyrant, genius, jerk. Through his life, he was loved, hated, admired and dismissed, yet he is a living legend; the genius who founded Apple in his parent's garage when he was just 21 years-old. He was the co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. He was an abandoned child. He was born on 24 February, 1955 in San Francisco. He was brought up and educated by a car mechanic, Paul Job and his wife, Clara. They loved him very much. Steve's education began at the hands of his adoptive mother. Steve Jobs attended a local school in California and later enrolled at Reed College, Portland, Oregon. He was famous for his career in the electronic field of computers and consumers.

 

As a child, Jobs preferred doing things by himself. He swam competitively, but was not interested in team sports or other group activities. He showed an early interest in electronics and gadgetry. He spent a lot of time working in the garage workshop of a neighbor who worked at Hewlett-Packard, an electronics manufacturer.

 

Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Reed was an expensive college which Paul and Clara could ill afford. They were spending much of their life savings on their son's higher education. Jobs dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes, including a course on calligraphy. He continued auditing classes at Reed while sleeping on the floor in friends' dorm rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple

 

In 1976, Wozniak invented the Apple I computer. Jobs, Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, an electronics industry worker, founded Apple computer in the garage of Jobs's parents in order to sell it. They received funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing manager and engineer Mike Markkula.

 

Through Apple, Jobs was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.

 

Jobs died at his California home around 3 p.m. on October 5, 2011, due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated pancreatic cancer.

 

However, The global effects of Steve Jobs' contributions were immense. He showed the world a new way of innovating and technology. Jobs started a new era of technology with the creation of iTunes, iPods, iPhones, Macbooks, and iPads.