Steve Jobs
Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. More
Through Apple, he is widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields, transforming “one industry after another, from computers and smartphones to music and movies.” 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 was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa and, a year later, the Macintosh. He also played a role in introducing the LaserWriter, one of the first widely available laser printers, to the market.
After a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, which was spun off as Pixar. He was credited in Toy Story as an executive producer. He served as CEO and majority shareholder until Disney's purchase of Pixar in 2006. In 1996, after Apple had failed to deliver its operating system, Copland, Gil Amelio turned to NeXT Computer, and the NeXTSTEP platform became the foundation for the Mac OS X. Jobs returned to Apple as an advisor, and took control of the company as an interim CEO. Jobs brought Apple from near bankruptcy to profitability by 1998.
Steve Jobs timeline
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Apple Computer Founded
The Forgotten Founder The bigger story here is that the two Steves weren't alone in forming Apple. Just as Soviet propagandists doctored photos... Read more
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Apple I Computer Kit Introduced, Costs $666.66
Steve W. and Steve J. got some money together and had some printed circuit boards made, then planned to sell the computer as a kit. This is also... Read more
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Apple II is Released
A lot of features of the Apple II went in because I had designed Breakout for Atari. I had designed it in hardware. I wanted to write it in... Read more
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Apple Releases Groundbreaking MacPaint with Macintosh
MacPaint was a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal... Read more
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Apple Macintosh Introduced
Steve Jobs began working on the Apple Lisa in 1978 but in 1982 he was pushed from the Lisa team due to infighting, and took over Jef Raskin's... Read more
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Steve Jobs Quits Apple Following His Removal from Managerial Duties by Apple's Board
In 1985, a power struggle developed between Jobs and CEO John Sculley, who had been hired two years prior. Apple's board of directors sided with... Read more
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The Graphics Group is Renamed Pixar Studios after Steve Jobs Purchases it from George Lucas
Pixar was founded as the Graphics Group, one third of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm that was launched in 1979 with the hiring of Dr. Ed... Read more
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Release of the Macintosh Portable, Apple's Unsuccessful First Attempt at a Portable Computer
The Macintosh Portable was Apple Computer's first attempt at making a battery-powered portable Macintosh personal computer that held the power of a... Read more
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Apple Releases PowerBook 500
The PowerBook 500 series (codenamed Blackbird) was a range of Apple Macintosh PowerBook portable computers first introduced by Apple Computer with... Read more
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Steve Jobs Rejoins Apple as Interim CEO
Jobs was initially reluctant to take a role at Apple. His other company, Pixar, had just released its first movie, Toy Story, to great acclaim. But... Read more
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Apple Releases the iMac G3
Aesthetically, the iMac was dramatically different from any other mainstream computer ever released. It was made of translucent "Bondi... Read more
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Apple Releases Power Mac G4
The original Apple Power Mac G4, code name "Yikes!", was introduced at the Seybold conference in San Francisco on August 31, 1999, with 400 MHz,... Read more
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Apple Releases the Power Mac G4 Cube
Stunningly compact, the Power Mac (not Macintosh) G4 Cube came as a surprise, despite numerable contradictory rumors. Just 7.7" square and a bit... Read more
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Steve Jobs Announces PowerBook G4, along with the New iTunes Music Player Application
The first generations of the PowerBook G4 were announced at Steve Jobs' keynote at MacWorld Expo in January 2001. They featured a PowerPC G4... Read more
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Apple Launches OS X v10.0, Codenamed "Cheetah"
Mac OS X version 10.0, code named “Cheetah”, is the first major release of Mac OS X, Apple’s desktop and server operating system. Mac OS X v10.0... Read more
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First iPod Released
Apple introduced the first-generation iPod on October 23, 2001, with the slogan "1,000 songs in your pocket". The first iPod had a black and white... Read more
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Apple Introduces Complete Redesign of iMac
The 2002 iMac is definitely different with its 10.5" base and 15" flat panel display. Definitely different. Steve Jobs says the design was inspired... Read more
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Apple Introduces iMac Core Duo
Apple has begun referring to this model as the iMac (Early 2006), but we're calling it the iMac Core Duo. Maybe we'll switch to Apple's... Read more
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MacBook Pro Announced during Steve Jobs' MacWorld Expo Keynote Address
CUPERTINO, California—February 14, 2006—Apple® this week will begin shipping the new 15-inch MacBook™ Pro notebook computer featuring the new Intel... Read more
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First MacBook Released
The MacBook is a brand of Macintosh notebook computers by Apple Inc. First introduced in May 2006, it replaced the iBook and 12" PowerBook series... Read more
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Apple Releases Mac Pro
An Intel-based replacement for the Power Mac G5 had long been expected prior to the release of the Mac Pro. The iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook and MacBook... Read more
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Apple Computer, Inc. Changes Name to Apple, Inc. 30 Years After Founding
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and manufactures consumer electronics and computer software products. The... Read more
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Apple Unveils iPhone
Capping literally years of speculation on perhaps the most intensely followed unconfirmed product in Apple's history -- and that's saying a lot --... Read more
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Apple Releases iMac with Intel Penryn Processor
Apple has updated the iMac with Intel's more efficient Penryn processor, which has a larger level 2 cache and includes the SSE4 instruction set.... Read more