Steve jobs

 Steve Jobs 



He was the co-founder of Apple, He was born on February 24th 1955 in San Francisco California United States.


His father's name was Abdelfattah John J and Dolly and mother's name was Joanne Carol Sheba


His father was a teacher ,businessman and political scientist .

Steve jobs was the adopted son of Paul Reinhold and Clara Jobs .Paul was a carpenter and mechanic ,Clara was an accountant 

After passing his high school in 1972  Steve enrolled at the reed college but dropped out of the same in a timeframe of six months to pursue creative classes including a course on calligraphy his first move professionally was that of a technician at Atari incorporated in Los Gatos California in 1973 

In mid-1974 jobs went to India to meet neem Karoli Baba for spiritual enlightenment 

In 1976 along with Wozniak he founded Apple computer company initially the company mainly aimed at selling circuit boards the same year Wozniak invented the Apple like computer



 

Steve was blessed with a girl child Lisa Brennan Jobs from his love partner Chris Ann Brennen in 1978 at the age of 23 though he denied paternity initially later he acknowledged Lisa as his child in 1985 difference of opinion between him and the company's CEO John Sculley led to Jobs resigning from his own founded company

In the same year he found it next incorporated the company was famous for its technical strengths especially its object-oriented software development system in 1986 

He bought the graphics group from Lucas Films computer graphics division Toy Story was the first animated film that was released after the acquirement 

He married Laurine Powell on March 18 1991 at the age of 36 the couple was blessed with three children interestingly in 1996

When Apple acquired next incorporated he returned to his own co-founded company as a de facto chief in the company in 1998

 Apple iMac was introduced to the world it was the direct result of his return to Apple in 2000 he became the permanent CEO of Apple adopting the title ICO in 2001 the company sorted into the world of music with the introduction of iPod iTunes digital music software and iTunes Store in 2005 with Disney's purchase of Pyke sir he became the largest shareholder of Walt Disney Company with approximately 7% of the company's stock 

He served as one of the board members in the company in 2007 he started cellular phone business with the launch of iPhone in 2008 iPhone 3G was released with three chief features in 2010 he launched iPhone 4 in 2011 iPhone 4s was released in the same year he resigned as the CEO of Apple but continued to serve as the chairman of the company's board 

He was inducted into California Hall of Fame in 2007 the same year he was named the most powerful person in business by Fortune magazine in 2009 

Fortune magazine named him as the CEO of the decade following year

 He ranked at number 17 in Forbes list of the world's most powerful people in 2010

He was named Person of the Year by Financial Times in 2003

He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer then

 He died on October 5th 2011 in Palo Alto California United States at the age of 56.







 Design is not just what it looks like and feels like, design is how it works                                               

                                           -STEVE JOBS


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