Some
people claim that the world has been changed by 3 apples: Eva’s apple, Newton’s apple
and Jobs’ Apple.The
computer world was created by a young man who get bored at the university, and
started to connect resistors trying: Steven Paul Jobs. Steve Jobs didn’t have any studies at
university, but he had very clear ideas in his brain; he knew what to do and a
friend of him knew how to do it. After leaving the university, Steve Jobs
studied philosophy and travelled to Indie to find out himself.
After an internship at Hewlett-Packard
Company in Palo Alto,
in 1974 Jobs was
hired by Atari Inc. as a game designer. By then, he joined who was his first partner, Stephen Wozniak
the engineer, in whose garage created the Apple
I, considered the first personal computer in history. In 1976, with
the proceeds from the sale of his
Volkswagen van, the
company founded Apple Computer, based on the Jobs
family garage. There are a lot of suppositions about why
Apple is the name of the company, one of them is that Steve
Jobs chose the name Apple as a reminder of the days when he worked in the collection of his favorite fruit: the apple. Another story
is that Job’s was a Beatles’ fan, and Apple was the first company who recorded
them. And another known story is that the name of Apple comes from the
poisonous apple which killed Tourim, a mathematician who invented the first
type programming system.
After
3 years, the Apple II was created becoming the first consumer computer,
which made Apple to increase as a company. After the Apple II, Jobs and Wozniak
were engaged in the creation of the
Macintosh, the first computer affordable
and easy to handle without having
computer knowledge, so that Jobs
is considered the true originator
of the concept of PC. The launch of the Macintosh in 1984 signaled a shift in the computer industry.
In
1981, the strongest competitor
of Apple, IBM, released its first personal computer. In an effort to
maintain the competitiveness of his
company, Jobs decided to recruit for
the president of Apple PepsiCo.,
John Sculley, not knowing that he will
fired him out of his own company. Sculley, an
executive businessman clashed with the rebellious
and unorthodox ways of Jobs. While the problems started between Jobs and Wozniak , due to the
difficult nature of Jobs, which
computer media called
him "charismatic tyrant."
The result of both personal conflicts
was that Wozniak left
Apple in 1985, 1,200
employees who were dismissed following
a major restructuring in the company, Jobs resigned
to found the company NextStep Inc.
After
this lost battle for Steve Jobs, he spent 50 million dollars buying Lucas Film
to Georges Lucas, and this was the beginning of Pixar Animation Studies. In
1995, Pixar working with Disney showed to the big screen the great hit Toy
Story. During this time, IBM created a computer which operated with Windows, a
copy of Macintosh’s one. Bill Gates and Jobs were really faced, and his bad
relationship was known by everyone, starring a film “Pirates of Silicon Valley”.
In
1996, Apple decided to buy Next, so Steve Jobs returned to Apple without earning
money. During this second stage in Apple, in which it would be kept as the
executive director until 2009, Steve Jobs continued in his personal line,
stimulating products firmly innovative. In 1998 it returned to change the IT
market with the launch of the iMac, a compact PC integrated into the monitor,
which besides his ultramodern design was prepared to surf on the Internet. His
best-seller placed Apple again between the five major manufacturers of personal
computers of the USA, with a revaluation of his actions in 50 %. New versions
of the iMac, with major power and increasingly sophisticated presentations and
design, would continue appearing in the following years, with great acceptance
between his legions of unconditional users.In 2001
the greatest hit in the nearest past of the music listening came with the iPod,
a small machine which works by battery and doesn’t need to have a CD, only a
memory where you introduce whatever you want: music, photos… Two years after,
Apple created the first online music store: iTunes. In 2004 Steve started with
his healthy problems, escaping from the working routine, but as all genius, still
thinking how to improve the technological world and making our lives nicer and
easier. In 2007 he introduced the
iPhone, the promoter of the smart -phones’ high class produced by Apple, with
touch screen and internet connection. In 2009, the year he had to undergo a
liver transplant, he delegated most of its functions Timothy Cook. With their
creativity intact, still in 2010 Steve Jobs surprised the world with an
innovative product, the iPad, a tablet hybrid PC and mobile phone with the
second version, the iPhone 2, submitted in March 2011 in one of his last
appearances the public.
In his last period, Steve decided
to try to be cured by alternative medicine avoiding more pain. A lot of people
claimed that he had mistaken whit his decision, but it isn’t our decision, so
we have to respect Jobs’ decision because it was the decision of one of the men
who made our lives easier and better, because he made possible have a computer
at home.
Interestingly,
a coincidence is that
he died of pancreatic cancer, PC,
the initials of the most competitive
personal computer.Rip in peace, Jobs. You made
history and you are part of the history.
Thank you for all, Jobs.
iPods, iMacs, iPhones, iPads,
MacBooks, iTunes… all because of YOU.
by Alberto Hoyos
