Selasa, 08 November 2016

Steve Jobs


Steve Jobs co-founded Apple Computers with Steve Wozniak. Under Jobs' guidance, the company pioneered a series of revolutionary technologies, including the iPhone and iPad.
Synopsis
Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24 1955. University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption. Smart but directionless, Jobs experimented with different pursuits before starting Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak in 1976. Apple's revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology, with Jobs having left the company in 1985 and returning more than a decade later. He died in 2011, following a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Early Life

Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in the city of San Francisco, California, United States. His birth mother was a graduate student named Joanne Simpson and his real father was a politician and professor of mathematics bloody Syrian named John Abdulfattah Jandali. After both biological parents married, they had a daughter who is Steve's sister, Mona Simpson.


When born, Steve has the name of Abdul Lateef Jandali until finally changed when he was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. Jobs pair is then given the name of Steven Paul Jobs. Steve actual biological mother, Joanne, do not particularly agree if the baby was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. Joanne wants her baby was adopted by a family that is able to send Steve to college country. But Joanne finally agreed the baby was adopted by a couple Jobs, with the help of the company to help finance studies, Joanne Steve, up to college.

When Steve was a toddler, Paul and Clara Jobs moved to Santa Clara County, which became known as Silicon Valley. There they adopt another baby, a girl named Patti. In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who was attending the University of California, Berkeley with funding of engineering and product marketing manager for Intel A.C. then steve jobs and steve Wozniak founded Apple.

The decline in sales across the industry towards the end of 1985 resulted in a rift working relationship with Sculley Jobs. Sculley ended the post of Jobs as head of the Macintosh division. Once out of Apple, Steve then founded NeXT, a computer platform development company engaged in higher education and business markets.

Apple's purchase of NeXT in 1996 brought Jobs back to the company he founded. Steve served as CEO of Apple from 1997 to 2011. In 1986, Steve took over the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which later changed it to Pixar. Diana, he became CEO and biggest shareholder as much as 50.1% to be taken over by The Walt Disney Company in 2006. Because of that, Steve eventually became the largest individual shareholder in Disney as much as 7% and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. After resigning as CEO of Pixar Animation Studios on August 24, 2011, Steve returned to Apple and was elected chairman of the board of directors.


On January 24th 1984 Apple Computer introduces Macintosh. 

 On 2001 iPod has been released by Apple. To complete the iPod, Steve made iTunes store. And In Juni 29th 2007 Apple has been released iPhone.
Steve served as CEO of Apple from 1997 to 2011.

Education
1. Cupertino Junior High School, California
2. Homestead High School in Cupertino, California
3. Reed College in Portland, Oregon

Personal Life

In the early 1990s, Jobs met Laurene Powell at Stanford business school, where Powell was a Master of Business Administration (MBA) student. They married on March 18, 1991, and lived together in Palo Alto, California, with their four children (Eve Jobs, Erin Siena Jobs, Reed Jobs, and Lisa Brennan-Jobs).

Pancreatic Cancer
In 2003, Jobs had a neuroendocrine tumour, rare pancreatic cancer and should be in operation. For nine months, Jobs put off the surgery and make Apple's board of directors nervous. Executives feared that shareholders would pull their stock if word got out that their Chief Executive Officer (CEO) was ill. But in the end, Jobs confidentiality took precedence over shareholder disclosure.

Death
On October 5, 2011, After battling pancreatic cancer for nearly a decade, Steve Jobs died in Palo Alto. He was 56 years old.

Appreciation

1. National Medal of Technology awarded by Ronals Reagan (1985)
2. Jefferson Award for Public Service in the category "Best Public Service by Individuals Aged 35 Years or Younger" (1987).

3. Degree business figures strongest, Fortune Magazine (27 November 2007).
4. California Hall of Fame at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (December 5, 2007).
5. Businessman most admired among the youth survey by Junior Achievement (August 2009).
6. Degree "Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Decade This", Fortune Magazine (5 November 2009).
7. Rank 57 in The World's Most Powerful People, Forbes (November 2009).

Steve Jobs is widely known as a visionary, pioneer and genius in the field of business, innovation, and product design, and the man who changed the face of the modern world, revolutionized six different industries, and an example for all chief executives. His death was widely and is considered a great loss for the world by fans around the world.
I chose Steve Jobs because he was unique for me he never beat a competitor in the competition but he created his own competition, he never stops on appreciation achieved, he genius, he always preserve his health, he never give up, and I think he a good man.

 


From the text above, I have some questions for you.


1. When was Steve Jobs born?

   a. February 28, 1950
   b. February 20, 1943
   c. February 4, 1952
   d. April 27, 1955
   e. None of the above

2. What is Steve Jobs full name when he was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs?

   a. Stephen Paul Jobs
   b. Steve Paul Jobs
   c. Steven Paul Jobs
   d. Steven Patrick Jobs
   e .Stevenson Jobs

3. How old is Steve Jobs now?

   a. 59
   b. 61
   c. 58
   d  60
   e. 62

4. Who awarded the National Medal of Technology to Steve Jobs in 1985?

   a. Jimmy Carter
   b.George Bush Sr.
   c. Steve Wozniak
   d. Ronald Reagan
   e. Junior Achievement

5. After leaving Apple Computer in 1985, what business did Steve Jobs start?

   a. NeXT Computer
   b. Foremost Software
   c. Quark Software
   d. First Digital Devices
   e. Fortune Magazine