“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” This is the last line of the “Think Different” commercial Steve Jobs directed in 1997, and it perfectly summarizes his curtailed yet exceptional life. Steve Paul Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, is a pioneer of the modern computing revolution. His extraordinary ideas and philosophy made him responsible for some of the most ground-breaking technological innovations of the 20th and 21st centuries, and helped shape many aspects of the digital age. In 1976, at age twenty-six, Steve Wozniak was working as an engineering intern for HP--the well known electronics company today; when his designs for a new computer was rejected by HP, his former high school classmate Steve P. Jobs, who was 21 years old at the time, offered his family garage for Wozniak's project--this is how the story began. The two co-founders searched for a name for their garage startup, and Jobs proposed Apple Computers. “I was on one of my fruitarian diets,” Jobs explained, “I had just come back from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.' Plus, it would get us …show more content…
Unlike the very first pc, Altair, Apple II came assembled and ready for useful tasks, and also included a keyboard and a monitor. Jobs made these changes because convenience was already an emerging priority of Apple when they released their second ever product, which goes hand-in-hand with user-friendliness. Apple wanted their consumers to use their products the way they designed them--opening the system box would void the warranty, a policy that Apple still employs today. This separates Apple from the other PC companies at the time, though its benefits might not seem obvious immediately. A close individual system is the base for a closed ecosystem, this is the first step in building Apple's great electronic empire