
She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.Īnd 17 years later I did go to college. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. He died on 5 October 2011.The first story is about connecting the dots. He returned to work after a six month break but eventually resigned his position in August 2011 after another period of medical leave which began in January 2011. Despite the success of this operation he became increasingly ill and received a liver transplant in 2009. In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and underwent surgery in 2004.
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The company's software music player, iTunes, evolved into an online music (and eventually also movie and software application) store, helping to popularize the idea of "legally" downloading entertainment content. The company's MP3 player, the iPod, followed in 2001, with the iPhone launching in 2007 and the iPad in 2010.

With the help of British-born industrial designer Jonathan Ive, Jobs brought his own aesthetic philosophy back to the ailing company and began to turn its fortunes around with the release of the iMac in 1998.

In 1996 Apple bought NeXT and Jobs returned to Apple, becoming its CEO.
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(1986) won critical and popular acclaim and in 1991 Pixar signed an agreement with Disney, with whom it already had a relationship, to produce a series of feature films, beginning with Toy Story (1995). Their first title under the Pixar name, Luxo Jr. The group was responsible for making high-end computer graphics hardware but under its new name, Pixar, it began to produce innovative computer animations. In the meantime, in 1986, Jobs bought The Computer Graphics Group from Lucasfilm. Its machines were not a commercial success but some of the technology was later used by Apple when Jobs eventually returned there. In 1985 Jobs was fired from Apple and immediately founded another computer company, NeXT.
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An advert during the 1984 Super Bowl, directed by Ridley Scott introduced the Macintosh computer to the world (in fact, the advert had been shown on a local TV channel in Idaho on 31 December 1983 and in movie theaters during January 1984 before its famous "premiere" on 22 January during the Super Bowl). The resulting machine, Lisa, was expensive and never achieved any level of commercial success, but in 1984 another Apple computer, using the same WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer) interface concept, was launched. Inspired by a trip to Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), engineers from Apple began working on a commercial application for the graphical interface ideas they had seen there.

By the time production of the Apple II ended in 1993 it had sold over 6 million units. The Apple II was credited with starting the personal computer boom, its popularity prompting IBM to hurriedly develop their own PC. The Apple II followed in 1977 and the company Apple Computer was formed shortly afterwards. Wozniak was building his own computer and in 1976 Jobs pre-sold 50 of the as-yet unmade computers to a local store and managed to buy the components on credit solely on the strength of the order, enabling them to build the Apple I without any funding at all. He took a job with video game manufacturer Atari to raise enough money for a trip to India and returned from there a Buddhist.īack in Cupertino he returned to Atari where his old friend Steve Wozniak was still working. He attended Homestead High School in Cupertino California and went to Reed College in Portland Oregon in 1972 but dropped out after only one semester, staying on to "drop in" on courses that interested him. He was taken in by a working class couple, Paul and Clara Jobs, and grew up with them in Mountain View, California. Steven Paul Jobs was born on 24 February 1955 in San Francisco, California, to students Abdul Fattah Jandali and Joanne Carole Schieble who were unmarried at the time and gave him up for adoption.
