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Fourteen years ago, Steve Jobs launched the iPod, and everything changed for Apple Main menu. How Steve Jobs introduced the iPod and saved Apple. Fourteen years ago, Steve Jobs launched the iPod, and everything changed for Apple. If you want to point to a single device that saved Apple, the iPod is it. In order to grow, Apple needed something other than the Mac.
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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Still Doesn't Quite Get Why Steve Jobs Was a Genius Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Still Doesn't Quite Get Why Steve Jobs Was a Genius. Woz's criticism of the Apple Watch completely misses the point. Steve Wozniak. In an Ask Me Anything chat event on Reddit yesterday, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak dissed the Apple Watch. No argument there--it's a flawed product with a high price tag.
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- Steve Jobs, who died of pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer earlier this month, did not allow doctors to perform what could have been potentially life-saving surgery for nine months, according to the former Apple chief executive's biographer Walter Isaacson. Read the whole story at LA Times.
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- By AppleInsider Staff. Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 03:45 pm PT (06:45 pm ET) The photos were taken on Dec. 20, 1996, the night when late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs returned to the company he created after being forced out by the board eleven years earlier.
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- When Steve jobs returned to Apple in 1997 , Microsoft had become a monopoly in the Desktop PC's, with nearly 95 % running on Windows; Apple was relegated to a niche market. Though Apple had lost out on the Desktop market, Steve brainstormed to identify the areas where Apple was still making profits and not losing out.
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NeXT Apple purchased NeXT in 1997 for $429 million (equivalent to $640 million in 2016), and 1.5 million shares of Apple stock. As part of the agreement, Steve Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Software, returned to Apple, the company he co-founded in 1976. The founder promised to merge software from NeXT with Apple's hardware platforms, eventually resulting in macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS.
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A Collection of Inspirational Steve Jobs Quotes About Life, Design and Apple Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world? - Steve Jobs' famous question to John Sculley, former Apple CEO.
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Apple Computer, Inc. The Apple II revolutionized the computer industry with the introduction of the first-ever color graphics.1 Sales jumped from $7.8 million in 1978 to $117 million in 1980, the year Apple went public. Wozniak left Apple in 1983 due to a diminishing interest in the day-to-day running of Apple Computers. Jobs then hired PepsiCo's John Sculley to be president. However, this move backfired and after much controversy with Sculley, Jobs left in 1985 and went on to new and bigger things.
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Steve Jobs: An Extraordinary Career Steve Jobs. Co-founder of Apple Computer Inc. Founded: 1976. We started out to get a computer in the hands of everyday people, and we succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.-Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs' vision of a computer for the rest of us sparked the PC revolution and made Apple an icon of American business.
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John Sculley: Steve Jobs 'was never fired' from Apple Steve Jobs openly talked about getting fired from Apple, calling it devastating and blaming John Sculley for it. In his famous 2005 commencement speech at Standford University, he said: We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired.
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Steve Jobs In 1977, Jobs and Wozniak introduced the Apple II at the West Coast Computer Faire. It was the first consumer product sold by Apple Computer and was one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, It was designed primarily by Steve Wozniak. Jobs oversaw the development of the Apple II's unusual case and Rod Holt developed the unique power supply.
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Steve Jobs: An Extraordinary Career Against all odds, Steve Jobs pulled the company he founded and loved back from the brink. Apple once again was healthy and churning out the kind of breakthrough products that made the Apple name synonymous with innovation. But Apple's innovations were just getting started. Over the next decade, the company rolled out a series of revolutionary products, including the iPod portable digital audio player in 2001, an online marketplace called the Apple iTunes Store in 2003, the iPhone handset in 2007 and the iPad tablet computer in 2010.
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How Much Is Steve Jobs Missed At Apple Steve Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011. On that day, shares of Apple closed at a split adjusted price of $50.53 per share. This past Friday, Apple closed at $115.96 per share. Since Steve’s death, shares of Apple are thus up 129.5% or lets says 130% in 3 years and 10 months rounded up. Basically, if you had bought one share of Apple that day, you would have made 1.3x your money in this time frame.
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Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak explains the biggest difference between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates While Hollywood has tried to get the story of the rivalry between Apple visionary Steve Jobs and Microsoft trailblazer Bill Gates right, Steve Wozniak had a front-row seat as it went down in real time. Wozniak was the cofounder and technical genius behind Apple. In that role, he was the man who brought Jobs' visions to life.
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Ronald Wayne Wayne worked with Steve Jobs at Atari before he, Jobs, and Wozniak founded Apple Computer on April 1, 1976. Serving as the venture's adult supervision, Wayne drew the first Apple logo, wrote the three men's original partnership agreement, and wrote the Apple I manual. Wayne received a 10% stake in Apple but relinquished his equity for US$800 less than two weeks later, on April 12, 1976.
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Steve Jobs sold most of his Apple stock when he was ousted from the company in 1985 â today it would be worth $66 billion That 11% stake in the company today would be worth $66 billion, not including any dividends the company would've paid out over the years. But that's not the only time a frustrated Jobs sold Apple stock on account of misgivings over the company's management and direction. Jobs acquired 1.5 million shares of Apple in 1996 after he sold Next Software, the computer company he founded after leaving Apple, for $400 million. After accounting for stock splits, that chunk of shares would be worth about $4.6 billion today. Jobs returned as CEO of Apple later in 1997 and would eventually acquire several million more shares of the company, worth nearly $600 million today, according to Wealth-X.
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Steve Jobs And The Apple Story In Oct. 2011, Steve Jobs passed away at the age of 56. He had just left the CEO post at Apple, the company he cofounded, for the second time. Jobs was an entrepreneur, through and through, and the story of his rise is the story of Apple as a company, along with some very interesting twists.
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Steve Jobs's seven key decisions It didn’t have to be that way. Former Apple CEO Gil Amelio. After the purchase of NeXT in late 1996, Apple’s then-CEO Gil Amelio brought Jobs in as a special advisor in January 1997. Jobs could have been content to simply provide advice and stay out of the way.
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Apple Computer, Inc. It was not until 1997, when Apple was desperately in need of an operating system, that it bought out NeXT Software (Jobs' company) and the board of directors decided to ask for some help from an old friend: Steve Jobs.
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- October 6, 2011. Steven P. Jobs, the Apple Inc. chairman and co-founder who pioneered the personal-computer industry and changed the way people think about technology, died Wednesday at the age of 56. His family, in a statement released by Apple, said Mr. Jobs died peacefully today surrounded by his family..
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Aug. 6, 1997: Apple Rescued â by Microsoft In a remarkable feat of negotiating legerdemain, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs got needed cash — in return for non-voting shares — and an assurance that Microsoft would support Office for the Mac for five years.
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Steve Jobs leaves Apple Computer, September 16, 1985 Follow Author. On this day in tech history, Steve Jobs resigned as chairman of Apple Computer, only to return exactly 12 years later. Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computer Inc in 1976 when they began selling the Apple I computer.
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- Steve Jobs innovative idea of a personal computer led him into revolutionizing the computer hardware and software industry. When Jobs was twenty one, he and a friend, Steve Wozniak, built a personal computer called the Apple. The Apple changed people's idea of a computer from a gigantic and inscrutable mass of vacuum tubes only used by big business and the government to a small box used by ordinary people.
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Steve Jobs: LSD Was One of The Best Things I've Done in My Life Jobs even let drop that Microsoft's Bill Gates would be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once.. Apple's mantra wasThink different.. Jobs did. And he credited his use of LSD as a major reason for his success.
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Meet The Man Who Saved Apple Apple Computers had been relegated to niche cult status. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple after his twelve-year exile, Jobs discovered that his company had been highly managed and poorly inspired. Apple only had enough working capital to pay employees for ninety days.
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- They started putting together the parts in the Jobses’s garage, with help from Steve’s sister Patti and his friend from Reed, Dan Kottke. They paid them $1 a board. The parts for the Apple cost $220, while the computer was sold to Terrel for $500, who would usually put it in wooden boxes.