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Steve Jobs History

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Steve Jobs is known as the man that brought us the Personal Computer, revolutionized the phone with the creation of the first iPhone, and inspired many of the main company that we know today. Steve Jobs saw more that many others could see, with the first iPhone created by Apple, he saw another way for it to be operated. Not by the little buttons but he thought that having a screen that we could control with our fingers would completely change the way we interacted with these devices. He was also one of the first next to his partner and co-founder of Apple to see that people could have there own computer that could be sitting on there desk at home or carried with them and not just a piece of technology that the major companies would get to use. …show more content…

Through this, he found a interest in technology. Talk of a personal computer was big, their was a company that made a little do it yourself kit where you could make your own little computer. The thing he disliked about it is that once it was put together, it wasn't very appealing, and it hardly worked. Eventually Steve came back together with his friend Steve Wozniak and started to talk about the idea of selling their very own computers. They often talked about what components they would use to make the computers function. At this time their was a company known as Intel. Intel was in the process on making a smaller processor or CPU that could handle multiple functions at one time. These processors were very powerful compared to every other CPU used. The first computer they created was put together completely out of pieces that could be bought right off the shelf. They put it together and showed it to the man that owned a local tech store. The man that owned the store was not very impressed at first mostly because it was all the pieces to the computer just thrown together. These first computers weren't very appealing, they looked as if they were just thrown together. They did not have a case or any thing that could make it look even halfway decent. But the store owner stuck to his word and payed for the computers and it really got …show more content…

By doing this, he would get a large sum of cash but it would make his life less stressful. But he ended up getting fired from his own company that he built from the ground up. With Steve gone, Apple would make drastic changes. When he got booted out the door, it gave him some new life. He brought some of his partners and started a small company named NeXT which never kicked off. While he was attempting to start that company, Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy. They were going under and basically begged Steve to come back to try and fix the broken company. When he came back he noticed some of the problems they had and solved them, fixed partnerships and came out with some new “revolutionary” devices. He introduced the iPad, newer versions of the iPod, and ultimately changing the phone and computer

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