"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do" (Apple’s “Think Different”, 1997)
This quote is what makes Apple distinct from the other companies. It is hard to believe that Apple began in a garage of a modest family house, and eventually ended as one of the biggest and most famous companies over the world.
When people think about Apple, they immediately remember Steve Jobs - the driving force behind products such as the Mac, iPhone, iPod and iPad. In Jobs biography, the author (Walter Isaksson) will be exploring his complex personality, since his childhood until his death in 2011, and how Steve's desire to achieve perfection and his passion for design and his need to control, affected his professional
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Despite the fact that Paul and Clara really wanted “Steve” for their son, Jobs still felt that he was abandoned at birth by more than form, and this feeling was reflected significantly on his personality. Paul and Clara Jobs was very interesting to provide a good education for Steve, and Paul taught Steve a variety of skills in electronics at an early age.
During high school, Steve Jobs met with Steve Wozniak, and their friendship continued throughout the life of Jobs. Due to their mutual interest in electronics and computers, Steve Wozniak began to work on a variety of projects, including the "blue box" - the device that allowed the hackers to make free external calls. The devices were sold for $150. Jobs said to Walter Isaksson “If it hadn’t been for the Blue Boxes, there wouldn’t have been an Apple”(Page #48).
While he studying for a short time in Cullen College in Oregon, Jobs embraced Eastern spiritualism and Buddhism. In February 1974, Jobs leave the college and returned to Silicon Valley, and got a job at the factory of Atari video games. Steve was interesting about the simple designs of Atari.
After he saved enough money, he left on a spiritual trip for 7 months in India. At the beginning of 1975, he returned to Atari and renewed his friendship with Steve Wozniak. Then they found Apple Computer, a company that changed the face of the technology in the