No one denies the personal computer has revolutionized our lives. We now live in a global world, creating global communities and global economies. Yet the IT world is constantly growing and involving. You may not even be accessing our blog on a PC mostly likely your using a moblie device while your doing some other type of activity. So aren't go glad Steve Jobs co-founded Apple?
| Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011 |
In 1974 Steve Jobs started work for a company called Atari as a video game programmer. Until 1976 he and Steve Wozniak started a little company called Apple with the release of Apple I, Convinced that user-friendly personalized computers were the way of the future. The small company which they started in their back shred, quickly grew and revolutionized the computer industry.
There first model was follow by Apple II, the Macintosh and Power Mac series. Steve left Apple in 1986, but rejoined the company as CEO. The company first traded on the sock market for 1.2 billion.
When Steve Jobs left Apple he started a computer hardware and software company NeXT the in 1988 and release the first NeXT computer that year. However, the had a very limited market selling only about 50,000 units in total. Apple brought the NeXT for $439 million and 1.5 million shares of Apple stock in 1996 and Steve Jobs became the CEO. The Next technology became the foundation of the Mac OS X,
This was the essentials concept in the development of the personal computer including the platform for Tim Berners-Leeas as he developed the World Wide Web.
In 2001 the first Ipod went on sale with Apple launching its Itunes site in 2003. The first Iphone was sold in 2007 and the Ipad in 2010.
In 2003 Steve Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but continues to have a key role in developments at Apple. His illness was later revealed in 2004. Steve resigned as CEO in August and loss his battle with cancer in October last year.
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