Steven Paul Jobs(February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology companyApple Inc.Jobs was also the founder ofNeXTand chairman and majority shareholder ofPixar.He was a pioneer of thepersonal computer revolutionof the 1970s and 1980s, along with his early business partner and fellow Apple co-founderSteve Wozniak.
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| Born | Steven Paul Jobs[1] February 24, 1955 San Francisco,California, U.S. |
| Died | October 5, 2011(aged 56) |
| Resting place | Alta Mesa Memorial Park |
| Education | Reed College(attended) |
| Years active | 1971–2011 |
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| Partner | Chrisann Brennan(1972–1977) |
| Children | 4, includingLisa,Reed,andEve |
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| Awards | Presidential Medal of Freedom(posthumous,2022) |
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Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955 and adopted shortly afterwards. He attendedReed Collegein 1972 before withdrawing that same year. In 1974, he traveled through India,seeking enlightenmentbefore later studyingZen Buddhism.He and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to further develop and sell Wozniak'sApple Ipersonal computer. Together, the duo gained fame and wealth a year later with production and sale of theApple II,one of the first highly successful mass-producedmicrocomputers.
Jobs saw the commercial potential of theXerox Altoin 1979, which wasmouse-driven and had agraphical user interface(GUI). This led to the development of the unsuccessfulApple Lisain 1983, followed bythe breakthrough Macintoshin 1984, the first mass-produced computer with a GUI. The Macintosh launched thedesktop publishingindustry in 1985 (for example, theAldus Pagemaker) with the addition of the AppleLaserWriter,the firstlaser printerto featurevector graphicsandPostScript.
In 1985, Jobs departed Apple after a long power struggle with the company's board and its then-CEO,John Sculley.That same year, Jobs took some Apple employees with him to found NeXT, acomputer platformdevelopment company that specialized in computers for higher-education and business markets, serving as its CEO. In 1986, he helped develop thevisual effectsindustry by funding the computer graphics division ofLucasfilmthat eventually spun off independently as Pixar, which produced the first 3Dcomputer-animatedfeature filmToy Story(1995) and became a leadinganimation studio,producing28 filmssince.
In 1997, Jobs returned to Apple as CEO after the company's acquisition of NeXT. He was largely responsible for reviving Apple, which was on the verge of bankruptcy. He worked closely with British designerJony Iveto develop a line of products and services that had larger cultural ramifications, beginning with the "Think different"advertising campaign, and leading to theiMac,iTunes,Mac OS X,Apple Store,iPod,iTunes Store,iPhone,App Store,andiPad.Jobs was also a board member atGap Inc.from 1999 to 2002.[3]In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with apancreatic neuroendocrine tumor.He died of tumor-relatedrespiratory arrestin 2011; in 2022, he was posthumously awarded thePresidential Medal of Freedom.Since his death, he has won 141 patents; Jobs holds over 450 patents in total.[4]
Early life
Family
Steven Paul Jobs was born inSan Francisco, California,on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali (Arabic:عبد الفتاح الجندلي). Abdulfattah Jandali was born in aMuslimhousehold to wealthySyrianparents, the youngest of nine siblings. After obtaining his undergraduate degree at theAmerican University of Beirut,Jandali pursued a PhD inpolitical scienceat theUniversity of Wisconsin.There, he met Joanne Schieble, an American Catholic ofSwiss-German descentwhose parents owned amink farmand real estate inGreen Bay.The two fell in love but faced opposition from Schieble's father due to Jandali's Muslim faith. When Schieble became pregnant, she arranged for aclosed adoption,and travelled to San Francisco to give birth.[5]
Schieble requested that her son be adopted by college graduates. A lawyer and his wife were selected, but they withdrew after discovering that the baby was a boy, so Jobs was instead adopted by Paul Reinhold and Clara (née Hagopian) Jobs. Paul Jobs, an American of German descent, was the son of a dairy farmer fromWashington County, Wisconsin.After dropping out of high school, he worked as amechanic,then joined theUS Coast Guard.When his ship was decommissioned at San Francisco, he bet he could find a wife within two weeks. He then met Clara Hagopian, an American ofArmeniandescent, and the two were engaged ten days later, in March 1946, and married that same year. The couple moved to Wisconsin, then Indiana, where Paul Jobs worked as amachinistand later as a car salesman. Since Clara missed San Francisco, she convinced Paul to move back. There, Paul worked as arepossessionagent, and Clara became abookkeeper.In 1955, after having anectopic pregnancy,the couple looked to adopt a child.[5]Since they lacked a college education, Schieble initially refused to sign the adoption papers, and went to court to request that her son be removed from the Jobs household and placed with a different family, but changed her mind after Paul and Clara promised to pay for their son's college tuition.[5][6]
Infancy
In his youth, Jobs's parents took him to aLutheranchurch.[7]When Steve was in high school, Clara admitted to his girlfriend,Chrisann Brennan,that she "was too frightened to love [Steve] for the first six months of his life... I was scared they were going to take him away from me. Even after we won the case, Steve was so difficult a child that by the time he was two I felt we had made a mistake. I wanted to return him." When Chrisann shared this comment with Steve, he stated that he was already aware,[8]and later said that he had been deeply loved and indulged by Paul and Clara. Jobs would "bristle" when Paul and Clara were referred to as his "adoptive parents", and he regarded them as his parents "1,000%". Jobs referred to his biological parents as "my sperm and egg bank. That's not harsh, it's just the way it was, a sperm bank thing, nothing more."[9]
Childhood
I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics... then I read something that one of my heroes,Edwin LandofPolaroid,said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do.
—Steve Jobs[10]
Paul Jobs worked in several jobs that included a try as a machinist,[11]several other jobs,[12]and then "back to work as a machinist". Paul and Clara adopted Jobs's sister Patricia in 1957,[13]and by 1959 the family had moved to theMonta Lomaneighborhood inMountain View, California.[14]Paul built a workbench in his garage for his son in order to "pass along his love of mechanics". Jobs, meanwhile, admired his father's craftsmanship "because he knew how to build anything. If we needed a cabinet, he would build it. When he built our fence, he gave me a hammer so I could work with him... I wasn't that into fi xing cars... but I was eager to hang out with my dad."[15]
Jobs had difficulty functioning in a traditional classroom, tended to resist authority figures, frequently misbehaved, and was suspended a few times. He frequently played pranks on others at Monta Loma Elementary School in Mountain View. His father Paul (who was abused as a child) never reprimanded him, however, and instead blamed the school for not challenging his brilliant son.[17]Jobs skipped the 5th grade and transferred to the 6th grade at Crittenden Middle School in Mountain View, where he became a "socially awkward loner".[18]Jobs was often "bullied" at Crittenden Middle, and in the middle of 7th grade, he gave his parents an ultimatum: either they would take him out of Crittenden or he would drop out of school.[19]
The Jobs family was not affluent, and only by expending all their savings were they able to buy a new home in 1967, allowing Steve to change schools. The new house (a three-bedroom home on Crist Drive inLos Altos, California) was in the betterCupertino School District,inCupertino, California.[20]The house was declared a historic site in 2013, as the first site of Apple Computer.[16]As of 2013[update],it was owned by Jobs's sister, Patty, and occupied by his stepmother, Marilyn.[21]When he was 13, in 1968,[22]Jobs was given a summer job byBill Hewlett(ofHewlett-Packard) after Jobs cold-called him to ask for parts for an electronics project.[23]
Homestead High
The location of the Los Altos home meant that Jobs would be able to attend nearbyHomestead High School,which had strong ties toSilicon Valley.[10]He began his first year there in late 1968 along withBill Fernandez,[24]who introduced Jobs to Steve Wozniak, and would become Apple's first employee. Neither Jobs nor Fernandez (whose father was a lawyer) came from engineering households and thus decided to enroll in John McCollum's Electronics I class.[24]Jobs had grown his hair long and become involved in the growing counterculture, and the rebellious youth eventually clashed with McCollum and lost interest in the class.[24]
Jobs underwent a change during mid-1970. He later noted to his official biographer that "I started to listen to music a whole lot, and I started to read more outside of just science and technology —Shakespeare,Plato.I lovedKing Lear... when I was a senior I had this phenomenalAP English class.The teacher was this guy who looked likeErnest Hemingway.He took a bunch of us snowshoeing in Yosemite. "During his last two years at Homestead High, Jobs developed two different interests: electronics and literature.[25]These dual interests were particularly reflected during Jobs's senior year, as his best friends were Wozniak and his first girlfriend, the artistic Homestead juniorChrisann Brennan.[26]
In 1971, after Wozniak began attendingUniversity of California, Berkeley,Jobs would visit him there a few times a week. This experience led him to study in nearbyStanford University's student union. Instead of joining the electronics club, Jobs put on light shows with a friend for Homestead'savant-gardejazzprogram. He was described by a Homestead classmate as "kind of brain and kind of hippie... but he never fit into either group. He was smart enough to be a nerd, but wasn't nerdy. And he was too intellectual for the hippies, who just wanted to get wasted all the time. He was kind of an outsider. In high school everything revolved around what group you were in, and if you weren't in a carefully defined group, you weren't anybody. He was an individual, in a world where individuality was suspect." By his senior year in late 1971, he was taking a freshman English class at Stanford and working on a Homestead underground film project with Chrisann Brennan.[27][28]
Around that time, Wozniak designed a low-cost digital "blue box"to generate the necessary tones to manipulate the telephone network, allowing free long-distance calls. He was inspired by an article titled" Secrets of the Little Blue Box "from the October 1971 issue ofEsquire.[29]Jobs decided then to sell them and split the profit with Wozniak. The clandestine sales of the illegal blue boxes went well and perhaps planted the seed in Jobs's mind that electronics could be both fun and profitable.[30]In a 1994 interview, he recalled that it took six months for him and Wozniak to design the blue boxes.[31]Jobs later reflected that had it not been for Wozniak's blue boxes, "there wouldn't have been an Apple".[32]He states it showed them that they could take on large companies and beat them.[33][34]
By his senior year of high school, Jobs began usingLSD.[25]He later recalled that on one occasion he consumed it in a wheat field outside Sunnyvale, and experienced "the most wonderful feeling of my life up to that point".[35]In mid-1972, after graduation and before leaving forReed College,Jobs and Brennan rented a house from their other roommate, Al.[36]
Reed College
In September 1972, Jobs enrolled atReed CollegeinPortland, Oregon.[37]He insisted on applying only to Reed, although it was an expensive school that Paul and Clara could ill afford.[38]Jobs soon befriendedRobert Friedland,[39]who was Reed'sstudent body presidentat that time.[40]Brennan remained involved with Jobs while he was at Reed.
I was interested inEastern mysticismwhich hit the shores about then. AtReedthere was a constant flow of people stopping by – fromTimothy LearyandRichard Alpert,toGary Snyder.There was a constant flow of intellectual questioning about the truth of life. That was the time when every college student in the country readBe Here NowandDiet for a Small Planet.
—Steve Jobs[41]
After just one semester, Jobs dropped out of Reed College without telling his parents.[42]Jobs later explained this was because he did not want to spend his parents' money on an education that seemed meaningless to him. He continued to attend by auditing his classes,[43]including a course oncalligraphythat was taught byRobert Palladino.In a 2005 commencement speech atStanford University,Jobs stated that during this period, he slept on the floor in friends' dorm rooms,returned Coke bottlesfor food money, and got weekly free meals at the localHare Krishnatemple. In that same speech, Jobs said: "If I had never dropped in on that singlecalligraphycourse in college, the Mac would have never had multipletypefacesor proportionally spaced fonts ".[44]
1974–1985
I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money [...] There are people around here who start companies just to make money, but the great companies, well, that's not what they're about.
—Steve Jobs[45]
Pre-Apple
In February 1974, Jobs returned to his parents' home in Los Altos and began looking for a job.[46]He was soon hired byAtari, Inc.inLos Gatos, California,as acomputer technician.[46][47]Back in 1973,Steve Wozniakdesigned his own version of the classic video gamePongand gave its electronics board to Jobs. According to Wozniak, Atari only hired Jobs because he took the board down to the company, and they thought that he had built it himself.[48]Atari's cofounderNolan Bushnelllater described him as "difficult but valuable", pointing out that "he was very often the smartest guy in the room, and he would let people know that".[49]
Jobs traveled to India in mid-1974[50]to visitNeem Karoli Baba[51]at his Kainchiashramwith his Reed College friend and eventual Apple employeeDaniel Kottke,searching for spiritual teachings. When they got to the Neem Karoli ashram, it was almost deserted because Neem Karoli Baba had died in September 1973. Then they made a long trek up a dry riverbed to an ashram ofHaidakhan Babaji.[47]
After seven months, Jobs leftIndia[52]and returned to the US ahead of Daniel Kottke.[47]Jobs had changed his appearance; his head was shaved, and he wore traditionalIndian clothing.[53][54]During this time, Jobs experimented withpsychedelics,later calling hisLSDexperiences "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life".[55][56]He spent a period at theAll One Farm,acommuneinOregonthat was owned byRobert Friedland.
During this time period, Jobs and Brennan both became practitioners ofZenBuddhismthrough the Zen masterKōbun Chino Otogawa.Jobs engaged in lengthymeditation retreatsat theTassajara Zen Mountain Center,the oldestSōtō Zenmonastery in the US.[57]He considered taking up monastic residence atEihei-jiinJapan,and maintained a lifelong appreciation for Zen,[58]Japanese cuisine, and artists such asHasui Kawase.[59]
Jobs returned to Atari in early 1975, and that summer, Bushnell assigned him to create acircuit boardfor thearcadevideo gameBreakoutin as few chips as possible, knowing that Jobs would recruit Wozniak for help. During his day job at HP, Wozniak drew sketches of the circuit design; at night, he joined Jobs at Atari and continued to refine the design, which Jobs implemented on abreadboard.[60]According to Bushnell, Atari offered$100(equivalent to about $600 in 2023) for eachTTLchip that was eliminated in the machine. Jobs made a deal with Wozniak to split the fee evenly between them if Wozniak could minimize the number of chips. Much to the amazement of Atari engineers, within four days Wozniak reduced the TTL count to 45, far below the usual 100, though Atari later re-engineered it to make it easier to test and add a few missing features.[61]According to Wozniak, Jobs told him that Atari paid them only $750 (instead of the actual $5,000), and that Wozniak's share was thus $375.[62]Wozniak did not learn about the actual bonus until ten years later but said that if Jobs had told him about it and explained that he needed the money, Wozniak would have given it to him.[63]
Jobs and Wozniak attended meetings of theHomebrew Computer Clubin 1975, which was a stepping stone to the development and marketing of the first Apple computer.[64]According to a document released by theUnited States Department of Defense,Jobs claimed that in 1975, he was arrested inEugene, Oregon,after being questioned for being a minor in possession of alcohol. Jobs alleged that he "didn't have any alcohol", but police questioned him, and subsequently determined that he had an outstanding arrest warrant for an unpaid speeding ticket. Jobs claimed he then paid the $50 fine. The arrest allegedly occurred "behind a store".[65][66]
Apple (1976–1985)
BasicallySteve Wozniakand I invented the Apple because we wanted a personal computer. Not only couldn't we afford the computers that were on the market, those computers were impractical for us to use. We needed aVolkswagen.The Volkswagen isn't as fast or comfortable as other ways of traveling, but the VW owners can go where they want, when they want and with whom they want. The VW owners have personal control of their car.
—Steve Jobs[67]
By March 1976, Wozniak completed the basic design of theApple Icomputer and showed it to Jobs, who suggested that they sell it; Wozniak was at first skeptical of the idea but later agreed.[68]In April of that same year, Jobs, Wozniak, and administrative overseerRonald Waynefounded Apple Computer Company (now called "Apple Inc." ) as abusiness partnershipin Jobs's parents' Crist Drive home on April 1, 1976. The operation originally started in Jobs's bedroom and later moved to the garage.[69][70]Wayne stayed briefly, leaving Jobs and Wozniak as the active primary cofounders of the company.[71]
The two decided on the name "Apple" after Jobs returned from the All One Farm commune in Oregon and told Wozniak about his time in the farm'sapple orchard.[72]Jobs originally planned to produce bareprinted circuit boardsof the Apple I and sell them to computer hobbyists for$50(equivalent to about $270 in 2023) each. To fund the first batch, Wozniak sold hisHP scientific calculatorand Jobs sold hisVolkswagen van.[73][74]Later that year, computer retailerPaul Terrellpurchased 50 fully assembled Apple I units for $500 each.[75][76]Eventually about 200 Apple I computers were produced in total.[77]
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A neighbor on Crist Drive recalled Jobs as an odd individual who would greet his clients "with his underwear hanging out, barefoot and hippie-like". Another neighbor, Larry Waterland, who had just earned his PhD in chemical engineering at Stanford, recalled dismissing Jobs's budding business compared to the established industry of giant mainframe computers with big decks of punch cards: "Steve took me over to the garage. He had a circuit board with a chip on it, a DuMont TV set, a Panasonic cassette tape deck and a keyboard. He said, 'This is an Apple computer.' I said, 'You've got to be joking.' I dismissed the whole idea." Jobs's friend from Reed College and India,Daniel Kottke,recalled that as an early Apple employee, he "was the only person who worked in the garage... Woz would show up once a week with his latest code. Steve Jobs didn't get his hands dirty in that sense." Kottke also stated that much of the early work took place in Jobs's kitchen, where he spent hours on the phone trying to find investors for the company.[21]
They received funding from a then-semi-retiredIntelproduct marketing manager and engineer namedMike Markkula.[78]Scott McNealy,one of the cofounders ofSun Microsystems,said that Jobs broke a "glass age ceiling"in Silicon Valley because he'd created a very successful company at a young age.[34]Markkula brought Apple to the attention ofArthur Rock,which, after looking at the crowded Apple booth at the Home Brew Computer Show, started with a $60,000 investment and went on the Apple board.[79]Jobs was not pleased when Markkula recruitedMike ScottfromNational Semiconductorin February 1977 to serve as the first president and CEO of Apple.[80][81]
For what characterizes Apple is that its scientific staff always acted and performed like artists – in a field filled with dry personalities limited by the rational and binary worlds they inhabit, Apple's engineering teams had passion. They always believed that what they were doing was important and, most of all, fun. Working at Apple was never just a job; it was also a crusade, a mission, to bring better computer power to people. At its roots, that attitude came from Steve Jobs. It was "Power to the People",the slogan of the sixties, rewritten in technology for the eighties and calledMacintosh.
—Jeffrey S. Young, 1987[82]
After Brennan returned from her own journey to India, she and Jobs fell in love again, as Brennan noted changes in him that she attributes toKobun(whom she was also still following). It was also at this time that Jobs displayed a prototype Apple II computer for Brennan and his parents in their living room. Brennan notes a shift in this time period, where the two main influences on Jobs were Apple Inc. andKobun.
In April 1977, Jobs and Wozniak introduced theApple IIat theWest Coast Computer Faire.[83]It is the first consumer product to have been sold by Apple Computer. Primarily designed by Wozniak, Jobs oversaw the development of its unusual case andRod Holtdeveloped the unique power supply.[84]During the design stage, Jobs argued that the Apple II should have twoexpansion slots,while Wozniak wanted eight. After a heated argument, Wozniak threatened that Jobs should "go get himself another computer". They later agreed on eight slots.[85]The Apple II became one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products in the world.[86]
As Jobs became more successful with his new company, his relationship with Brennan grew more complex. In 1977, the success of Apple was now a part of their relationship, and Brennan,Daniel Kottke,and Jobs moved into a house near the Apple office inCupertino.[87]Brennan eventually took a position in the shipping department at Apple.[88]Brennan's relationship with Jobs deteriorated as his position with Apple grew, and she began to consider ending the relationship. In October 1977, Brennan was approached byRod Holt,who asked her to take "a paid apprenticeship designing blueprints for the Apples".[89]Both Holt and Jobs believed that it would be a good position for her, given her artistic abilities. Holt was particularly eager that she take the position and puzzled by her ambivalence toward it. Brennan's decision, however, was overshadowed by the fact that she realized she was pregnant, and that Jobs was the father. It took her a few days to tell Jobs, whose face, according to Brennan, "turned ugly" at the news. At the same time, according to Brennan, at the beginning of her third trimester, Jobs said to her: "I never wanted to ask that you get an abortion. I just didn't want to do that."[90]He also refused to discuss the pregnancy with her.[90]
Brennan turned down the internship and decided to leave Apple. A few weeks before she was due to give birth, Brennan was invited to deliver her baby at the All One Farm. She accepted the offer.[89]When Jobs was 23 (the same age as his biological parents when they had him)[90]Brennan gave birth to her baby,Lisa Brennan,on May 17, 1978.[89]Jobs went there for the birth after he was contacted byRobert Friedland,their mutual friend and the farm owner. While distant, Jobs worked with her on a name for the baby, which they discussed while sitting in the fields on a blanket. Brennan suggested the name "Lisa" which Jobs also liked and notes that Jobs was very attached to the name "Lisa" while he "was also publicly denying paternity". She would discover later that during this time, Jobs was preparing to unveil a new kind of computer that he wanted to give a female name (his first choice was "Claire" afterSt. Clare). She stated that she never gave him permission to use the baby's name for a computer and he hid the plans from her. Jobs worked with his team to come up with the phrase, "Local Integrated Software Architecture" as analternative explanationfor theApple Lisa.[91]Decades later, however, Jobs admitted to his biographerWalter Isaacsonthat "obviously, it was named for my daughter".[92]
When Jobs denied paternity, aDNA testestablished him as Lisa's father.[93]It required him to pay Brennan$385(equivalent to about $1,200 in 2023) monthly in addition to returning the welfare money she had received. Jobs paid her$500(equivalent to about $1,500 in 2023) monthly at the time when Apple went public and made him a millionaire. Later, Brennan agreed to interview withMichael MoritzforTimemagazine for itsTime Person of the Yearspecial, released on January 3, 1983, in which she discussed her relationship with Jobs. Rather than name Jobs the Person of the Year, the magazine named the genericpersonal computerthe "Machine of the Year".[94]In the issue, Jobs questioned the reliability of the paternity test, which stated that the "probability of paternity for Jobs, Steven... is 94.1%".[93]He responded by arguing that "28% of the male population of the United States could be the father".Timealso noted that "the baby girl and the machine on which Apple has placed so much hope for the future share the same name: Lisa".[93]
In 1978, at age 23, Jobs was worth over$1 million(equivalent to $4.67 million in 2023). By age 25, his net worth grew to an estimated$250 million(equivalent to $838 million in 2023). He was also one of the youngest "people ever to make the Forbes list of the nation's richest people—and one of only a handful to have done it themselves, without inherited wealth".[95]In 1982, Jobs bought an apartment on the top two floors ofThe San Remo,a Manhattan building with a politically progressive reputation. Although he never lived there,[96]he spent years renovating it thanks toI. M. Pei.In 1983, Jobs luredJohn Sculleyaway fromPepsi-Colato serve as Apple's CEO, asking, "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?".[97]
In 1984, Jobs bought theJackling Houseand estate and resided there for a decade. Thereafter, he leased it out for several years until 2000 when he stopped maintaining the house, allowing weathering to degrade it. In 2004, Jobs received permission from the town of Woodside to demolish the house to build a smaller, contemporary styled one. After a few years in court, the house was finally demolished in 2011, a few months before he died.[98]
Jobs took over development of theMacintoshin 1981, from early Apple employeeJef Raskin,who had conceived the project. Wozniak and Raskin had heavily influenced the early program, and Wozniak was on leave during this time due to an airplane crash earlier that year, making it easier for Jobs to take over the project.[99][100][101]On January 22, 1984, Apple aired aSuper Bowltelevision commercial titled "1984",which ended with the words:" On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 won't be like1984."[102]On January 24, 1984, an emotional Jobs introduced the Macintosh to a wildly enthusiastic audience at Apple's annual shareholders meeting held in theFlint Auditoriumat De Anza College.[103][104]Macintosh engineerAndy Hertzfelddescribed the scene as "pandemonium".[105]The Macintosh was inspired by theLisa(in turn inspired byXerox PARC'smouse-drivengraphical user interface),[106][107]and it was widely acclaimed by the media with strong initial sales.[108][109]However, its low performance and limited range of available software led to a rapid sales decline in the second half of 1984.[108][109][110]
Sculley's and Jobs's respective visions for the company greatly differed. Sculley favoredopen architecturecomputers like the Apple II, targeting education, small business, and home markets less vulnerable to IBM. Jobs wanted the company to focus on theclosed architectureMacintosh as a business alternative to the IBM PC. President and CEO Sculley had little control over chairman of the board Jobs's Macintosh division; it and the Apple II division operated like separate companies, duplicating services.[111]Although its products provided 85% of Apple's sales in early 1985, the company's January 1985annual meetingdid not mention the Apple II division or employees. Many left, including Wozniak, who stated that the company had "been going in the wrong direction for the last five years" and sold most of his stock.[112]Though frustrated with the company's and Jobs's dismissal of the Apple II in favor of the Macintosh, Wozniak left amicably and remained an honorary employee of Apple, maintaining a lifelong friendship with Jobs.[113][114][115]
By early 1985, the Macintosh's failure to defeat the IBM PC became clear,[108][109]and it strengthened Sculley's position in the company. In May 1985, Sculley—encouraged by Arthur Rock—decided to reorganize Apple, and proposed a plan to the board that would remove Jobs from the Macintosh group and put him in charge of "New Product Development". This move would effectively render Jobs powerless within Apple.[116]In response, Jobs then developed a plan to get rid of Sculley and take over Apple. However, Jobs was confronted after the plan was leaked, and he said that he would leave Apple. The Board declined his resignation and asked him to reconsider. Sculley also told Jobs that he had all of the votes needed to go ahead with the reorganization. A few months later, on September 17, 1985, Jobs submitted a letter of resignation to the Apple Board. Five additional senior Apple employees also resigned and joined Jobs in his new venture, NeXT.[117]
The Macintosh's struggle continued after Jobs left Apple. Though marketed and received in fanfare, the expensive Macintosh was hard to sell.[118]: 308–309 In 1985,Bill Gates's then-developing company,Microsoft,threatened to stop developing Mac applications unless it was granted "a license for the Mac operating system software. Microsoft was developing its graphical user interface... for DOS, which it was callingWindowsand didn't want Apple to sue over the similarities between the Windows GUI and the Mac interface. "[118]: 321 Sculley granted Microsoft the license which later led to problems for Apple.[118]: 321 In addition, cheapIBM PC clonesthat ran Microsoft software and had a graphical user interface began to appear. Although the Macintosh preceded the clones, it was far more expensive, so "through the late 1980s, the Windows user interface was getting better and better and was thus taking increasingly more share from Apple".[118]: 322 Windows-based IBM-PC clones also led to the development of additional GUIs such as IBM's TopView or Digital Research's GEM,[118]: 322 and thus "the graphical user interface was beginning to be taken for granted, undermining the most apparent advantage of the Mac...it seemed clear as the 1980s wound down that Apple couldn't go it alone indefinitely against the whole IBM-clone market".[118]: 322
1985–1997
NeXT computer
Following his resignation from Apple in 1985, Jobs founded NeXT Inc.[119]with $7 million. A year later he was running out of money, and he sought venture capital with no product on the horizon. Eventually, Jobs attracted the attention of billionaireRoss Perot,who invested heavily in the company.[120]The NeXT computer was shown to the world in what was considered Jobs's comeback event,[121]a lavish invitation-only galalaunch event[122]that was described as a multimedia extravaganza.[123]The celebration was held at theLouise M. Davies Symphony Hall,San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, October 12, 1988.Steve Wozniaksaid in a 2013 interview that while Jobs was at NeXT he was "really getting his head together".[99]
NeXT workstations were first released in 1990 and priced at$9,999(equivalent to about $23,000 in 2023). Like theApple Lisa,the NeXT workstation was technologically advanced and designed for the education sector but was largely dismissed as cost prohibitive.[124]The NeXT workstation was known for its technical strengths, chief among them itsobject-orientedsoftware development system. Jobs marketed NeXT products to the financial, scientific, and academic community, highlighting its innovative, experimental new technologies, such as theMach kernel,thedigital signal processorchip, and the built-inEthernetport. Making use of a NeXT computer, English computer scientistTim Berners-Leeinvented theWorld Wide Webin 1990 atCERNin Switzerland.[125]
The revised, second generationNeXTcubewas released in 1990. Jobs touted it as the first "interpersonal" computer that would replace the personal computer. With its innovativeNeXTMailmultimedia email system, NeXTcube could share voice, image, graphics, and video in email for the first time. "Interpersonal computing is going to revolutionize human communications and groupwork", Jobs told reporters.[126]Jobs ran NeXT with an obsession for aesthetic perfection, as evidenced by the development of and attention to NeXTcube's magnesium case.[127]This put considerable strain on NeXT's hardware division, and in 1993, after having sold only 50,000 machines, NeXT transitioned fully to software development with the release ofNeXTSTEP/Intel.[128]The company reported its first yearly profit of $1.03 million in 1994.[129]In 1996, NeXT Software, Inc. releasedWebObjects,a framework for Web application development. After NeXT was acquired by Apple Inc. in 1997, WebObjects was used to build and run the Apple Store,[128]MobileMeservices, and the iTunes Store.[130]
Pixar and Disney
In 1986, Jobs funded the spinout of The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) fromLucasfilm's computer graphics division for the price of $10 million, $5 million of which was given to the company as capital and $5 million of which was paid to Lucasfilm for technology rights.[131]
The first film produced by Pixar with itsDisneypartnership,Toy Story(1995), with Jobs credited as executive producer,[132]brought financial success and critical acclaim to the studio when it was released. Over the course of Jobs's life, under Pixar's creative chiefJohn Lasseter,the company produced box-office hitsA Bug's Life(1998),Toy Story 2(1999),Monsters, Inc.(2001),Finding Nemo(2003),The Incredibles(2004),Cars(2006),Ratatouille(2007),WALL-E(2008),Up(2009),Toy Story 3(2010), andCars 2(2011).Brave(2012), Pixar's first film to be produced since Jobs's death, honored him with a tribute for his contributions to the studio.[133]Finding Nemo,The Incredibles,Ratatouille,WALL-E,Up,Toy Story 3,andBraveeach received theAcademy Award for Best Animated Feature,an award introduced in 2001.[134][135]
In 2003 and 2004, as Pixar's contract with Disney was running out, Jobs and Disney chief executiveMichael Eisnertried but failed to negotiate a new partnership,[136]and in January 2004, Jobs announced that he would never deal with Disney again.[137]
In October 2005,Bob Igerreplaced Eisner at Disney, and Iger quickly worked to mend relations with Jobs and Pixar. On January 24, 2006, Jobs and Iger announced that Disney had agreed to purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. When the deal closed, Jobs became The Walt Disney Company's largest single shareholder with approximately seven percent of the company's stock.[138]Jobs's holdings in Disney far exceeded those of Eisner, who holds 1.7%, and of Disney family memberRoy E. Disney,who until his 2009 death held about 1% of the company's stock and whose criticisms of Eisner—especially that he soured Disney's relationship with Pixar—accelerated Eisner's ousting. Upon completion of the merger, Jobs received 7% of Disney shares, and joined the board of directors as the largest individual shareholder.[138][139][140]Upon Jobs's death his shares in Disney were transferred to the Steven P. Jobs Trust led byLaurene Jobs.[141]
After Jobs's death, Iger recalled in 2019 that many warned him about Jobs, "that he would bully me and everyone else". Iger wrote, "Who wouldn't want Steve Jobs to have influence over how a company is run?", and that as an active Disney board member "he rarely created trouble for me. Not never but rarely." He speculated that they would have seriously considered merging Disney and Apple had Jobs lived.[137]Floyd Norman,of Pixar, described Jobs as a "mature, mellow individual" who never interfered with the creative process of the filmmakers.[142]In early June 2014, Pixar cofounder andWalt Disney Animation StudiosPresidentEdwin Catmullrevealed that Jobs once advised him to "just explain it to them until they understand" in disagreements. Catmull released the bookCreativity, Inc.in 2014, in which he recounts numerous experiences of working with Jobs. Regarding his own manner of dealing with Jobs, Catmull writes:[143]
In all the 26 years with Steve, Steve and I never had one of these loud verbal arguments, and it's not my nature to do that.... but we did disagree fairly frequently about things.... I would say something to him and he would immediately shoot it down because he could think faster than I could.... I would then wait a week... I'd call him up, and I give my counterargument to what he had said, and he'd immediately shoot it down. So I had to wait another week, and occasionally this went on for months. But ultimately one of three things happened. About a third of the time he said, "Oh, I get it, you're right", and that was the end of it. And it was another third of the time in which [I'd] say, "Actually I think he is right". The other third of the time, where we didn't reach consensus, he just let me do it my way, never said anything more about it.[143]
1997–2011
Return to Apple
In 1996, Jobs's former company Apple was struggling and its survival depended on completing its next operating system. After failed negotiations to purchaseBe Inc.,[144][145]Apple eventually came to a deal with NeXT in December[146]for $400 million; the deal was finalized in February 1997, bringing Jobs back to the company he had cofounded.[147]Jobs becamede factochief after then-CEOGil Ameliowas ousted in July 1997. He was formally named interim chief executive on September 16.[148]In March 1998, to concentrate Apple's efforts on returning to profitability, Jobs terminated several projects, such asNewton,Cyberdog,andOpenDoc.In the coming months, many employees developed a fear of encountering Jobs while riding in the elevator, "afraid that they might not have a job when the doors opened. The reality was that Jobs's summary executions were rare, but a handful of victims was enough to terrorize a whole company."[149]Jobs changed the licensing program forMacintosh clones,making it too costly for the manufacturers to continue making machines.
With the purchase of NeXT, much of the company's technology found its way into Apple products, most notablyNeXTSTEP,which evolved into Mac OS X. Under Jobs's guidance, the company increased sales significantly with the introduction of the iMac and other new products; since then, appealing designs and powerful branding have worked well for Apple. At the 2000 Macworld Expo, Jobs officially dropped the "interim" modifier from his title at Apple and became permanent CEO.[150]Jobs quipped at the time that he would be using the title "iCEO".[151]
The company subsequently branched out, introducing and improving upon other digital appliances. With the introduction of the iPod portable music player, iTunes digital music software, and the iTunes Store, the company made forays into consumer electronics and music distribution. On June 29, 2007, Apple entered the cellular phone business with the introduction of the iPhone, amulti-touchdisplay cell phone, which also included the features of an iPod and, with its own mobile browser, revolutionized the mobile browsing scene. While nurturing open-ended innovation, Jobs also reminded his employees that "real artists ship".[152]
Jobs had a public war of words withDell ComputerCEOMichael Dell,starting in 1987, when Jobs first criticized Dell for making "un-innovative beige boxes".[153]On October 6, 1997, at aGartnerSymposium, when Dell was asked what he would do if he ran the then-troubled Apple Computer company, he said: "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders".[154]Then, in 2006, Jobs emailed all employees when Apple'smarket capitalizationrose above Dell's. It read:
Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today. Steve.[155]
Jobs was both admired and criticized for his consummate skill at persuasion and salesmanship, which has been dubbed the "reality distortion field"and was particularly evident during his keynote speeches (colloquially known as"Stevenotes") atMacworld Exposand atApple Worldwide Developers Conferences.[156]
Jobs usually went to work wearing a black long-sleevedmock turtleneckmade byIssey Miyake,Levi's501 blue jeans, andNew Balance991 sneakers.[157][158]Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson "...he came to like the idea of having a uniform for himself, both because of its daily convenience (the rationale he claimed) and its ability to convey a signature style".[157]
In 2001, Jobs was granted stock options in the amount of 7.5 million shares of Apple with an exercise price of $18.30. It was alleged that the options had beenbackdated,and that the exercise price should have been $21.10. It was further alleged that Jobs had thereby incurred taxable income of $20,000,000 that he did not report, and that Apple overstated its earnings by that same amount. As a result, Jobs potentially faced a number of criminal charges and civil penalties. The case was the subject of active criminal and civil government investigations,[159]though an independent internal Apple investigation completed on December 29, 2006, found that Jobs was unaware of these issues and that the options granted to him were returned without being exercised in 2003.[160]
In 2005, Jobs responded to criticism of Apple's poor recycling programs fore-wastein the US by lashing out at environmental and other advocates at Apple's annual meeting in Cupertino in April. A few weeks later, Apple announced it would take back iPods for free at its retail stores. TheComputer TakeBack Campaignresponded by flying a banner from a plane over the Stanford University graduation at which Jobs was the commencement speaker. The banner read "Steve, don't be a mini-player—recycle all e-waste".[161]
In 2006, he further expanded Apple's recycling programs to any US customer who buys a new Mac. This program includes shipping and "environmentally friendly disposal" of their old systems.[162]The success of Apple's unique products and services provided several years of stable financial returns, propelling Apple to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company in 2011.[163]
Jobs was perceived as a demanding perfectionist[164][165]who always aspired to position his businesses and their products at the forefront of the information technology industry by foreseeing and setting innovation and style trends. He summed up this self-concept at the end of his keynote speech at theMacworld Conference and Expoin January 2007, by quoting ice hockey playerWayne Gretzky:
There's an old Wayne Gretzky quote that I love. "I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been". And we've always tried to do that at Apple. Since the very, very beginning. And we always will.[166]
On July 1, 2008, a$7 billionclass action suit was filed against several members of the Apple board of directors for revenue lost because of alleged securities fraud.[167][168]In a 2011 interview with biographer Walter Isaacson, Jobs revealed that he had met with US PresidentBarack Obama,complained about the nation's shortage of software engineers, and told Obama that he was "headed for a one-term presidency".[169]Jobs proposed that any foreign student who got an engineering degree at a US university should automatically be offered a green card. After the meeting, Jobs commented, "The president is very smart, but he kept explaining to us reasons why things can't get done... It infuriates me ".[169]
Health problems
In October 2003, Jobs was diagnosed withcancer.In mid 2004, he announced to his employees that he had a cancerous tumor in hispancreas.[170]The prognosis forpancreatic canceris very poor;[171]Jobs stated that he had a rare, less aggressive type, known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor.[170]
Jobs resisted his doctors' recommendations for medical intervention for nine months,[172]in favor ofalternative medicine.Other doctors agree that Jobs's diet was insufficient to address his disease. However, cancer researcher and alternative medicine criticDavid Gorskiwrote that "it's impossible to know whether and by how much he might have decreased his chances of surviving his cancer through his flirtation with woo. My best guess was that Jobs probably only modestly decreased his chances of survival, if that."[173][174]Barrie R. Cassileth,the chief ofMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center'sintegrative medicinedepartment,[175]on the other hand, said, "Jobs's faith in alternative medicine likely cost him his life... He had the only kind of pancreatic cancer that is treatable and curable... He essentially committed suicide."[176]
According to biographer Walter Isaacson, "for nine months he refused to undergo surgery for his pancreatic cancer – a decision he later regretted as his health declined".[177]"Instead, he tried a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies, and other treatments he found online, and even consulted a psychic. He was also influenced by a doctor who ran a clinic that advised juice fasts, bowel cleansings and other unproven approaches, before finally having surgery in July 2004."[178][179]He underwent apancreaticoduodenectomy(or "Whipple procedure" ) that appeared to remove the tumor successfully.[180][181]Jobs did not receivechemotherapyorradiation therapy.[170][182]During Jobs's absence,Tim Cook,head of worldwide sales and operations at Apple, ran the company.[170]
In January 2006, only Jobs's wife, his doctors, andIgerknew that his cancer had returned. Jobs told Iger privately that he hoped to live to see his own son Reed's high school graduation in 2010.[137]In early August 2006, Jobs delivered the keynote for Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference. His "thin, almost gaunt" appearance and unusually "listless" delivery,[183][184]together with his choice to delegate significant portions of his keynote to other presenters, inspired a flurry of media and internet speculation about the state of his health.[185]In contrast, according to anArs Technicajournal report, Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) attendees who saw Jobs in person said he "looked fine".[186]Following the keynote, an Apple spokesperson said that "Steve's health is robust".[187]
Two years later, similar concerns followed Jobs's 2008 WWDC keynote address.[188]Apple officials stated that Jobs was victim to a "common bug" and was taking antibiotics,[189]while others surmised hiscachectic appearancewas due to the Whipple procedure.[182]During a July conference call discussing Apple earnings, participants responded to repeated questions about Jobs's health by insisting that it was a "private matter". Others said that shareholders had a right to know more, given Jobs's hands-on approach to running his company.[190][191]Based on an off-the-record phone conversation with Jobs,The New York Timesreported, "While his health problems amounted to a good deal more than 'a common bug', they weren't life-threatening and he doesn't have a recurrence of cancer".[192]
On August 28, 2008,Bloombergmistakenly published a 2500-wordobituaryof Jobs in its corporate news service, containing blank spaces for his age and cause of death. News carriers customarily stockpile up-to-date obituaries to facilitate news delivery in the event of a well-known figure's death. Although the error was promptly rectified, many news carriers and blogs reported on it,[193]intensifying rumors concerning Jobs's health.[194]Jobs responded at Apple's September 2008Let's Rockkeynote by paraphrasingMark Twain:"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."[195][196]At a subsequent media event, Jobs concluded his presentation with a slide reading "110/70", referring to hisblood pressure,stating he would not address further questions about his health.[197]
On December 16, 2008, Apple announced that marketing vice-presidentPhil Schillerwould deliver the company's final keynote address at theMacworld Conference and Expo2009, again reviving questions about Jobs's health.[198][199]In a statement given on January 5, 2009, onApple,Jobs said that he had been suffering from a "hormone imbalance"for several months.[200][201]
On January 14, 2009, Jobs wrote in an internal Apple memo that in the previous week he had "learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought".[202]He announced a six-month leave of absence until the end of June 2009, to allow him to better focus on his health. Tim Cook, who previously acted as CEO in Jobs's 2004 absence, became acting CEO of Apple, with Jobs still involved with "major strategic decisions".[202]
In 2009, Tim Cook offered a portion of hisliverto Jobs, since both share a rare blood type, and the donor liver can regenerate tissue after such an operation. Jobs yelled, "I'll never let you do that. I'll never do that."[203]In April 2009, Jobs underwent aliver transplantationatMethodist University HospitalTransplant Institute inMemphis, Tennessee.[204][205][206]Jobs's prognosis was described as "excellent".[204]
Resignation
On January 17, 2011, a year and a half after Jobs returned to work following the liver transplant, Apple announced that he had been granted another leave of absence. Jobs announced his leave in a letter to employees, stating his decision was made "so he could focus on his health". As it did at the time of his 2009 medical leave, Apple announced that Tim Cook would run day-to-day operations and that Jobs would continue to be involved in major strategic decisions at the company.[207][208]While on leave, Jobs appeared at theiPad 2launch event on March 2, theWWDCkeynote introducingiCloudon June 6, and before the Cupertino City Council on June 7.[209]
On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation as Apple's CEO, writing to the board, "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come."[210]Jobs became chairman of the board and named Tim Cook as his successor as CEO.[211][212]Jobs continued to work for Apple until the day before his death six weeks later.[213][214][215]
Death
Jobs died at his home inPalo Alto, California,around 3 p.m. (PDT) on October 5, 2011, due to complications from arelapseof his previously treated islet-cellpancreatic neuroendocrine tumor,[64][216][217]which resulted inrespiratory arrest.[218]He had lost consciousness the day before and died with his wife, children, and sisters at his side.[219]His sister,Mona Simpson,described his death thus: "Steve's final words, hours earlier, were monosyllables, repeated three times. Before embarking, he'd looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life's partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them. Steve's final words were: 'Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow.'" He then lost consciousness and died several hours later.[219]A small private funeral was held on October 7, 2011, the details of which, out of respect for Jobs's family, were not made public.[220]
BothApple[221]andPixarissued announcements of his death.[222]Apple announced on the same day that they had no plans for a public service, but were encouraging "well-wishers" to send their remembrance messages to an email address created to receive such messages.[223]Apple andMicrosoftboth flew their flags athalf-staffthroughout their respective headquarters and campuses.[224][225]
Bob Igerordered allDisneyproperties, includingWalt Disney WorldandDisneyland,to fly their flags at half-staff from October 6 to 12, 2011.[226]For two weeks following his death, Apple displayed on its corporate Web site a simple page that showed Jobs's name and lifespan next to his portrait in grayscale.[227][228][229]On October 19, 2011, Apple employees held a private memorial service for Jobs on the Apple campus in Cupertino. It was attended by Jobs's widow, Laurene, and by Tim Cook,Bill Campbell,Norah Jones,Al Gore,andColdplay.Some of Apple's retail stores closed briefly so employees could attend the memorial. A video of the service was uploaded to Apple's website.[230]
California GovernorJerry Browndeclared Sunday, October 16, 2011, to be "Steve Jobs Day".[231]On that day, an invitation-only memorial was held atStanford University.Those in attendance included Apple and other tech company executives, members of the media, celebrities, politicians, and family and close friends of Jobs.Bono,Yo-Yo Ma,andJoan Baezperformed at the service, which lasted longer than an hour. There was high security with guards at all of the university's gates, and a helicopter overhead from an area news station.[232][233]Each attendee was given a small brown box as a "farewell gift" from Jobs, containing a copy of theAutobiography of a Yogi(1946) byParamahansa Yogananda.[234]
Childhood friend and fellow Apple co-founderSteve Wozniak,[235]former owner of what would become Pixar,George Lucas,[236]his competitor Microsoft co-founderBill Gates,[237]and PresidentBarack Obama[238]all made statements in response to his death. At his request, Jobs was buried in anunmarked graveatAlta Mesa Memorial Park,the onlynonsectariancemetery in Palo Alto.[239][240]
Innovations and designs
Jobs's design aesthetic was influenced by philosophies of Zen and Buddhism. In India, he experienced Buddhism while on his seven-month spiritual journey,[241]and his sense of intuition was influenced by the spiritual people with whom he studied.[241]Jobs gained insights regardingindustrial designsfromRichard Sapper.[242]According to Apple co-founder Wozniak, "Steve didn't ever code. He wasn't an engineer and he didn't do any original design...".[243][244]Daniel Kottke,one of Apple's earliest employees and a college friend of Jobs, stated: "Between Woz and Jobs, Woz was the innovator, the inventor. Steve Jobs was the marketing person."[245]
He is listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor in 346 United States patents or patent applications related to a range of technologies from actual computer and portable devices to user interfaces (including touch-based), speakers, keyboards, power adapters, staircases, clasps, sleeves,lanyards,and packages. His contributions to most of his patents were to "the look and feel of the product". He and his industrial design chiefJonathan Iveare named for 200 of the patents.[246]Most of these are design patents as opposed to utility patents or inventions; they are specific product designs such as both original and lamp-styleiMacs,andPowerBook G4 Titanium.[247][248]He holds 43 issued US patents on inventions.[247]The patent on the Mac OS XDockuser interface with "magnification" feature was issued the day before he died.[249]Although Jobs had little involvement in the engineering and technical side of the original Apple computers,[244]Jobs later used his CEO position to directly involve himself with product design.[250]
Involved in many projects throughout his career was his long-time marketing executive and confidantJoanna Hoffman,known as one of the few employees at Apple and NeXT who could successfully stand up to Jobs while also engaging with him.[251]Even while terminally ill in the hospital, Jobs sketched new devices that would hold the iPad in a hospital bed.[219]He despised the oxygen monitor on his finger, and suggested ways to revise the design for simplicity.[252]
Apple I
TheApple Iwas designed entirely by Wozniak, but Jobs had the idea of selling the computer, which led to the founding ofApple Computerin 1976. Jobs and Wozniak constructed several of the Apple I prototype by hand, funded by selling some of their belongings. Eventually, 200 units were produced.[77]One of the main innovations of the Apple I was that it includedvideo display terminalcircuitry on its circuit board, allowing it to connect to a low-costcomposite videomonitor or television, instead of an expensive computer terminal, compared to most existing computers at the time.
Apple II
The Apple II is an8-bithome computer,one of the world's first highly successful mass-producedmicrocomputerproducts,[86]designed primarily by Wozniak. Jobs oversaw the development of the Apple II's unusual case[253]andRod Holtdeveloped the unique power supply.[84]It was introduced in 1977 at theWest Coast Computer Faireby Jobs and Wozniak as the first consumer product sold by Apple. The Apple II was first sold on June 10, 1977.[254][255]
Lisa
The Lisa is a personal computer developed by Apple from 1978 and sold in the early 1980s to business users. It is the first personal computer with agraphical user interface.[256]The Lisa sold poorly at 100,000 units,[257]but despite being considered a commercial failure, it received technical acclaim, introducing several advanced features that reappeared on the Macintosh and eventuallyIBM PC compatibles.In 1982, after Jobs was forced out of the Lisa project,[258]he took over theMacintoshproject, adding inspiration from Lisa. The final Lisa 2/10 was modified and sold as theMacintosh XL.[259]
Macintosh
Once he joined theMacintoshteam, Jobs took over the project after Wozniak had experienced a traumatic airplane accident and temporarily left the company.[99]Jobs launched the Macintosh on January 24, 1984, as the first mass-market personal computer featuring an integralgraphical user interfaceandmouse.[260]This first model was later renamed to Macintosh 128k among the prolific series. Since 1998, Apple has phased out the Macintosh name in favor of "Mac", though the product family has been nicknamed "Mac" or "the Mac" since inception. The Macintosh was introduced by aUS$1.5 millionRidley Scotttelevision commercial, "1984".[261]It aired during the third quarter ofSuper Bowl XVIIIon January 22, 1984, received as a "watershed event"[262]and a "masterpiece".[263]Regis McKennacalled the ad "more successful than the Mac itself".[264]It uses an unnamed heroine to represent the coming of the Macintosh (indicated by aPicasso-style picture of the computer on her whitetank top) to save humanity from the conformity of IBM's domination of the computer industry. The adalludestoGeorge Orwell's novelNineteen Eighty-Four,which describes adystopian futureruled by a televised "Big Brother".[265][266]
The Macintosh, however, was expensive, which hindered its ability to be competitive in a market already dominated by theCommodore 64for consumers, and theIBM Personal Computerand its accompanyingclonemarket for businesses.[267]Macintosh systems still found success in education and desktop publishing and kept Apple as the second-largest PC manufacturer for the next decade.
NeXT Computer
After Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985, he startedNeXT,aworkstationcomputer company. The NeXT Computer was introduced in 1988 at alavish launch event.Using the NeXT Computer,Tim Berners-Leecreated the world's firstweb browser,theWorldWideWeb.The NeXT Computer's operating system, namedNeXTSTEP,begatDarwin,which is now the foundation of most of Apple'soperating systemssuch as Macintosh'smacOSand iPhone'siOS.[268][269]
iMac
Apple'siMac G3was introduced in 1998 and its innovative design is directly the result of Jobs's return to Apple. Apple boasted "the back of our computer looks better than the front of anyone else's".[270]Described as "cartoonlike", the first iMac, clad in Bondi Blue plastic, was unlike any personal computer that came before. In 1999, Apple introduced the Graphite gray Apple iMac and since has varied the shape, color and size considerably while maintaining theall-in-onedesign. Design ideas were intended to create a connection with the user such as the handle and a "breathing" light effect when the computer went to sleep.[271]The Apple iMac sold for $1,299 at that time. The iMac's forward-thinking changes include eschewing thefloppy disk driveand moving exclusively toUSBfor connecting peripherals. Through the iMac's success, USB was popularized among third-party peripheral makers—as evidenced by the fact that many early USB peripherals were made of translucent plastic to match the iMac design.[272]
iTunes
iTunes is amedia player,media library, online radio broadcaster, and mobile device management application developed by Apple. It is used to play, download, and organize digitalaudioand video on personal computers running themacOSandMicrosoft Windowsoperating systems. TheiTunes Storeis also available on theiPod Touch,iPhone, and iPad.[273]
Through the iTunes Store, users can purchase and download music, music videos, television shows,audiobooks,podcasts,movies, and movie rentals in some countries, andringtones,available on the iPhone and iPod Touch (fourth generation onward).Application softwarefor the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch can be downloaded from theApp Store.[273]
iPod
Thefirst generation of iPodwas released October 23, 2001. The major innovation of the iPod was its small size achieved by using a 1.8 "hard drive compared to the 2.5" drives common to players at that time. The capacity of the first-generation iPod ranged from 5 GB to 10 GB.[274]The iPod sold for US$399 and more than 100,000 iPods were sold before the end of 2001. The introduction of the iPod resulted in Apple becoming a major player in the music industry.[275]Also, the iPod's success prepared the way for the iTunes music store and the iPhone.[276]After the first few generations of iPod, Apple released the touchscreen iPod Touch, the reduced-sizeiPod MiniandiPod Nano,and the screenlessiPod Shufflein the following years.[275]
iPhone
Apple began work on thefirst iPhonein 2005 and the first iPhone was released on June 29, 2007. The iPhone created such a sensation that a survey indicated six out of ten Americans were aware of its release.Timedeclared it "Invention of the Year" for 2007 and included it in the All-TIME 100 Gadgets list in 2010, in the category of Communication.[277]The completed iPhone had multimedia capabilities and functioned as a quad-band touch screen smartphone. A year later, theiPhone 3Gwas released in July 2008 with three key features: support for GPS, 3G data and tri-band UMTS/HSDPA. In June 2009, theiPhone 3GS,whose improvements included voice control, a better camera, and a faster processor, was introduced by Phil Schiller.[278]The iPhone 4 was thinner than previous models, had a five megapixel camera capable of recording video in 720p HD, and added a secondary front-facing camera for video calls.[279]A major feature of theiPhone 4s,introduced in October 2011, wasSiri,a virtual assistant capable of voice recognition.[280]
iPad
The iPad is an iOS-based line oftablet computersdesigned and marketed by Apple. Thefirst iPadwas released on April 3, 2010. Theuser interfaceis built around the device'smulti-touchscreen, including avirtual keyboard.The iPad includes built-inWi-Fiand cellular connectivity on select models. As of April 2015[update],more than 250 million iPads have been sold.[281]
Personal life
Marriage
In 1989, Jobs first met his future wife,Laurene Powell,when he gave a lecture at theStanford Graduate School of Business,where she was a student. Soon after the event, he stated that Laurene "was right there in the front row in the lecture hall, and I couldn't take my eyes off of her... kept losing my train of thought, and started feeling a little giddy".[282]After the lecture, he met her in the parking lot and invited her out to dinner. From that point forward, they were together, with a few minor exceptions, for the rest of his life.[283]
Jobs proposed on New Year's Day 1990; they married on March 18, 1991, in a Buddhist ceremony at theAhwahnee HotelinYosemite National Park.[284]Fifty people, including Jobs's father, Paul, and his sister Mona, attended. The ceremony was conducted by Jobs'sguru,Kobun Chino Otogawa.[284]The vegan wedding cake was in the shape of Yosemite'sHalf Dome,and the wedding ended with a hike and Laurene's brothers' snowball fight. Jobs reportedly said to Mona: "You see, Mona [...], Laurene is descended fromJoe Namath,and we're descended fromJohn Muir".[285]
Jobs's and Powell's first child, a son namedReed,was born in 1991.[286]Jobs's father, Paul, died a year and a half later, on March 5, 1993. Jobs's childhood home remains a tourist attraction and is currently owned by his stepmother (Paul's second wife), Marilyn Jobs.[287]Jobs and Powell had two more children, daughters Erin (b. 1995) andEve Jobs(b. 1998), who is a fashion model.[286]The family lived inPalo Alto, California.[288]Although a billionaire, Jobs made it known that, like Gates, he had stipulated that most of his monetary fortune would not be left to his children.[289][290]Both men had limited their children's access, age appropriate, to social media, computer games, and the Internet.[291][292]
Family
Chrisann Brennannotes that after Jobs was forced out of Apple, "he apologized many times over for his behavior" towards her and Lisa. She said Jobs "said that he never took responsibility when he should have, and that he was sorry".[293]By this time, Jobs had developed a strong relationship with Lisa and when she was nine, Jobs had her name on her birth certificate changed from "Lisa Brennan" to "Lisa Brennan-Jobs".[8]Jobs and Brennan developed a working relationship toco-parentLisa, a change which Brennan credits to the influence of his newly found biological sister,Mona Simpson,who worked to repair the relationship between Lisa and Jobs.[8]Jobs had found Mona after first finding his birth mother, Joanne Schieble Simpson, shortly after he left Apple.[294]
Jobs did not contact his birth family during his adoptive mother Clara's lifetime, however. He would later tell his official biographerWalter Isaacson:"I never wanted [Paul and Clara] to feel like I didn't consider them my parents, because they were totally my parents [...] I loved them so much that I never wanted them to know of my search, and I even had reporters keep it quiet when any of them found out".[294]However, in 1986, when Jobs was 31, Clara was diagnosed with lung cancer. He began to spend a great deal of time with her and learned more details about her background and his adoption, information that motivated him to find his biological mother. Jobs found on his birth certificate the name of the San Francisco doctor to whom Schieble had turned when she was pregnant. Although the doctor did not help Jobs while he was alive, he left a letter for Jobs to be opened upon his death. As he died soon afterwards, Jobs was given the letter which stated that "his mother had been an unmarried graduate student from Wisconsin named Joanne Schieble".[294]
Jobs only contacted Schieble after Clara died in early 1986 and after he received permission from his father, Paul. In addition, out of respect for Paul, he asked the media not to report on his search.[294]Jobs stated that he was motivated to find his birth mother out of both curiosity and a need "to see if she was okay and to thank her, because I'm glad I didn't end up as an abortion. She was twenty-three and she went through a lot to have me."[295]Schieble was emotional during their first meeting (though she wasn't familiar with the history of Apple or Jobs's role in it) and told him that she had been pressured into signing the adoption papers. She said that she regretted giving him up and repeatedly apologized to him for it. Jobs and Schieble would develop a friendly relationship throughout the rest of his life and would spend Christmas together.[296]
During this first visit, Schieble told Jobs that he had a sister, Mona, who was not aware that she had a brother.[295]Schieble then arranged for them to meet in New York where Mona worked. Her first impression of Jobs was that "he was totally straightforward and lovely, just a normal and sweet guy".[297]Simpson and Jobs then went for a long walk to get to know each other.[297]Jobs later told his biographer that "Mona was not completely thrilled at first to have me in her life and have her mother so emotionally affectionate toward me... As we got to know each other, we became really good friends, and she is my family. I don't know what I'd do without her. I can't imagine a better sister. My adopted sister, Patty, and I were never close. "[297]
I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked likeOmar Sharif.I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not-yet-furnished apartment) and help us. Later, after I'd met my father, I tried to believe he'd changed his number and left no forwarding address because he was an idealistic revolutionary, plotting a new world for the Arab people. Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man, and he was my brother.
Jobs then learned his family history. Six months after he was given up for adoption, Schieble's father died, she wed Jandali, and they had a daughter, Mona.[298][299]Jandali states that after finishing his PhD he returned to Syria to work, and then Schieble left him.[298]They divorced in 1962[10]and he said then he lost contact with Mona for a time:
I also bear the responsibility for being away from my daughter when she was four years old, as her mother divorced me when I went to Syria, but we got back in touch after 10 years. We lost touch again when her mother moved and I didn't know where she was, but since 10 years ago we've been in constant contact, and I see her three times a year. I organized a trip for her last year to visit Syria and Lebanon and she went with a relative from Florida.[298]
A few years later, Schieble married an ice-skating teacher, George Simpson. Mona Jandali took her stepfather's last name, as Mona Simpson. In 1970, after divorcing her second husband, Schieble took Mona to Los Angeles and raised her alone.[299]
When Simpson found that their father, Abdulfattah Jandali, was living inSacramento, California,Jobs had no interest in meeting him as he believed Jandali did not treat his children well[300]and according to theSan Francisco Chronicle,this was because of finding aSeattle Timesarticle about Jandali's abandonment of his students on a trip to Egypt in 1974.[301]Simpson went to Sacramento alone and met Jandali, who worked in a small restaurant. They spoke for several hours, and he told her that he had left teaching for the restaurant business. He said he and Schieble had given another child away for adoption but that "we'll never see that baby again. That baby's gone." He said he once managed a Mediterranean restaurant nearSan Joseand that "all of the successful technology people used to come there. Even Steve Jobs... oh yeah, he used to come in, and he was a sweet guy and a big tipper". At the request of Jobs, Simpson did not reveal to Jandali that his own story meant that he had actually already met his son.[302]
After hearing about the visit, Jobs recalled that "it was amazing... I had been to that restaurant a few times, and I remember meeting the owner. He was Syrian. Balding. We shook hands." However, Jobs still did not want to meet Jandali because "I was a wealthy man by then, and I didn't trust him not to try to blackmail me or go to the press about it... I asked Mona not to tell him about me".[302]Jandali later discovered his relationship to Jobs through an online blog. He then contacted Simpson and asked, "what is this thing about Steve Jobs?". Simpson told him that it was true and later commented, "My father is thoughtful and a beautiful storyteller, but he is very, very passive... He never contacted Steve". Because Simpson herself researched her Syrian roots and began to meet the family, she assumed that Jobs would eventually want to meet their father, but he never did. Jobs also never showed an interest in his Syrian heritage or the Middle East. Simpson fictionalized the search for their father in her 1992 novelThe Lost Father.[296]Malek Jandaliis their cousin.[303]
Philanthropy
Jobs's views and actions on philanthropy and charity are a public mystery.[304]He maintained privacy even over what few of these actions were publicly known. He has been a key figure in public discussions about societal obligations of the wealthy and powerful. Through his career, the media investigated and criticized him and Apple as unusually and inexplicably mysterious or absent among powerful leaders and especially billionaires. His name is absent from the Million Dollar List of all large global philanthropy.[305]Some have speculated about his possible secret role in large anonymous donations.[304]
Mark Vermilion, former charitable leader forJoan Baez,Apple, and Jobs, attributed Jobs's lifelong minimization of direct charity to his perfectionism and limited time. Jobs, Vermilion, and supporters said over the years that corporate products were Jobs's superior contributions to culture and society instead of direct charity.[305]In 1985, Jobs said, "You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me."[304]
Shortly after leaving Apple, he formed the charitable Steven P. Jobs Foundation, led by Mark Vermilion, hired away from Apple's community leadership. Jobs wanted a focus on nutrition and vegetarianism, but Vermilion wanted social entrepreneurship. That year, Jobs soon launched NeXT and closed the foundation with no results. Upon his 1997 return to Apple, Jobs optimized the failing company to the core, such as eliminating all philanthropic programs, never to be restored. In 2007,Stanford Social Innovation Reviewmagazine listed Apple among "America's least philanthropic companies". A few months after another unflattering news report, Apple started a program to match employees' charitable gifts.[305]Jobs declined to signThe Giving Pledge,launched in 2010 byWarren BuffettandBill Gatesfor fellow billionaires.[305][304]He donated $50 million to Stanford hospital and contributed to efforts to cure AIDS.Bonoreported "tens of millions of dollars" given by Apple while Jobs was CEO, to AIDS and HIV relief programs in Africa, which inspired other companies to join.[305]
Honors and awards
- 1985:awardedNational Medal of Technology(withSteve Wozniak) by US PresidentRonald Reagan,the country's highest honor for technological achievements[307]
- 1987:Jefferson Award for Public Service[308]
- 1989:Entrepreneur of the DecadebyInc.[309]
- 1991:Howard Vollum AwardfromReed College[310]
- 2004–2010:listed among theTime100 Most Influential People in the Worldon five separate occasions[311]
- 2007:named the most powerful person in business byFortunemagazine[312]
- 2007:inducted into theCalifornia Hall of Fame,located atThe California Museum for History, Women and the Arts[313]
- 2012:Grammy Trustees Award,an award for those who have influenced the music industry in areas unrelated to performance[314]
- 2012:posthumously honored with anEdison Achievement Awardfor his commitment to innovation throughout his career[315]
- 2013:posthumously inducted as aDisney Legend[316]
- 2017:Steve Jobs Theateropens atApple Park[317]
- 2022:posthumously awarded thePresidential Medal of Freedomby US PresidentJoe Biden,the country's highest civilian honor[318]
In popular culture
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- 2011: "Steve Jobs: From Garage to World's Most Valuable Company."Computer History Museum
- 2005:Steve Jobs commencement speechatStanford University
- 1995:Steve Jobs,Founder, NeXT Computer, excerpts from an Oral History Interview atSmithsonian Institution,April 20, 1995
- 1994:Steve Jobsin 1994: The Rolling Stone Interview inRolling Stone
- 1990:Steve JobsArchivedDecember 16, 2014, at theWayback Machine– memory and imagination "What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with, and it's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds"
- 1983:The "Lost" Steve Jobs Speech from 1983;Foreshadowing Wireless Networking, the iPad, and the App Store (audio clip)
History of Steve Jobs (Full Documentary)onYouTube