Short Essay On Steve Jobs

Inventor, Genius, and Hot Tempered are words I would use to describe Steve Jobs. Many people know that Jobs was the man who made Apple, but he was so much more. As a well known entrepreneur, Steve Jobs showed the world that electronics could be so much more. He left a lasting legacy as the man who made our iPhones, iPads, iPods, and Macs. The early life of Steve Jobs was quite elaborate. The creator was not raised by his biological parents. Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco to two unwed graduate school students. His maternal grandfather did not approve of his daughter keeping the baby because she was unwed, and the father of the baby was not a Catholic like...show more content... Jobs met Steve Wozniak, his lifetime Apple partner through a mutual friend. As he grew older, Jobs became close to his sister Mona Simpson. Steve Jobs was friends with Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates. The CEO's normal attire was a turtle–neck shirt and jeans. Steve Jobs married Laurene Powell on March 18, 1991. Buddhism and his adult life were major influences on Apple. (newworldencyclopedia.com pg. 2) Steve Jobs created Apple due to many calls to change. As a child, Steve Jobs experimented with many things. Jobs had an interest in machines ever since he was a child. Jobs was also a very smart, but not a very good student. Steve Jobs became involved in electronics because of a neighbor who was an engineer. Jobs's call to change also came as an adult. (Pollack and Belviso pg. 1) As an adult, Steve Jobs was dissatisfied with the electronics, this was a major factor in the creation of apple. Jobs was a technician at Atari before Apple. Jobs also worked at Hewlett–Packard for a summer job. Steve Jobs's major goal for Apple was to make a computer for people to love. Apple's creator's calls to change happened both during his childhood and adulthood.

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Steve Jobs was an innovative mastermind with visions that helped change the world. He co–founded Apple inc. which is a well–known billion dollar company, and also invented products so popular, almost anyone you ask owns a product of his. In order to understand why Steve Jobs is an american cultural icon, one needs to have a description of his background and a critical analysis of his moral behavior. Born on the 24th of February, 1955, Jobs was born. Jobs biological parents were graduates of Wisconsin who could not afford a child at the time, so jobs was put up for adoption. Jobs got adopted by a new father which was a machinist who worked at a laser manufacturer called spectra physics and a new mother who worked as an accountant. Jobs was...show more content...

Jobs gladly accepted the offer for the internship and there would meet another important person needed to continue his success. When Steve was fulfilling his internship at HP, he met employee Steve Wozniak. They both knew each other because Wozniak previously attended the same high school as Jobs, but graduated and dropped out of college. Jobs and Wozniak were great friends from this point on, inventing and collaborating projects together, even creating a machine capable of free international calls. "Jobs and I clicked so well because we both possessed a passion not many understood yet", Wozniak claimed. later, Jobs would graduate and go on to attend Reed College, though shortly after dropping out of college himself to pursue his interest in electronics with Wozniak. Both of the two worked for a company known as Atari, a well–known video game company, they invented atari games. When both of the two knew they could use their smarts to do great things, they did. They created Apple inc. and used Jobs fathers garage as a work space, office, and headquarters for the company. In that garage, they created personal technology, scaled down from huge, monstrous machines large enough to only fit in the average size living room to an electronic box only about the one third the size of an average sized office desk. This first invention of theres in 1977 was known as the Apple II.

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Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in Los Altos, California. He is Co–founder, Chairman, and former CEO of Apple Inc. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak high school friends and both college dropouts joined together to start Apple Computer in 1976. They are credited for inventing the first computer for home use. They made it possible for people to have a computer anywhere in their home, or on an office desk, where previously a single computer took up a whole room. There creation changed the world. However Steve Jobs didn't change what was in the products but how they looked, functioned, and what they meant.

In 1776 the Apple I was finished being created. Jobs and Wozniak had spent six months creating the prototype of the Apple I in a...show more content...

He didn't only pay attention to what was in his products but what they looked like and what they meant to his buyers. That is how he changed the world, not with what his products have in them, all of the components of his products are the same as any other out there, but with how they look and what they make easier in our lives. No one goes out and says oh I'm going to buy a MP3 player that's only 29.00$, they're going to want to buy Apples iPod even if they have the same software. When you buy an apple product you're not just buying the actual product your buying what the product represents. Job's ability to take what he wants in a phone, portable music device, and computer and make it real and wanted by the masses is a gift.

In conclusion, Steve Jobs changed the world not only with the invention of the Apple II in 76'which was in collaboration with Steve Wozniak, but with how he thinks. When Job's thinks of the next big thing in technology he thinks about what he would want. He makes products that make life easier, they look good and they represent an

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