DIVING INTO THE LEGENDARY BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS

The most prominent thing in any component is its foundation, which marks clear difference between a skilled & an unskilled mindset. A skilled mindset always emphasize to create a perfect foundation, as well as simultaneously endeavor on other features too, whereas an unskilled mindset does not consider to ameliorate the base of an object.

Similarly, Steve Jobs, the Co-Founder of Apple, possessed the skilled mindset, who always aimed to provide best quality, that ultimately led to the intensification in his products.

EARLY LIFE & EDUCATION:

Steve Jobs was born on 24th February 1955 in San Francisco, California to a Muslim Father & Catholic Mother. Shortly after the birth, he was adopted by Paul & Clara Jobs due to religious conflicts between maternal & paternal families. Paul Jobs mainly worked as a Machinist. By the age of 10, Steve got deeply involved in electronics, as a result of which he had a great friendship with engineers, living in his neighborhood. Initially, he went to Monta Elementary School till 4th Standard. Since, Steve was an optimistic learner, he skipped 5th Class & was directly admitted to 6th Grade in Crittenden Middle School, however there he was bullied, as a consequence of which he was shifted to Cupertino Junior High School. Here, he successfully completed his primary schooling. Thereafter, Steve studied at Homestead High School to pursue his further studies. By the time in High School, he involved in Hippies Culture, due to which he grew long hairs as well as started to consume drugs. After graduating from Homestead High School, he got admission into Reeds College, where just after the 1st semester, he ended up dropping out.

BLUE BOXES:

Steve Job's friend, Steve Wozniak designed Blue Boxes, which were used to generate tunes required for manipulation of telephone network, that allows free long distance calls. Upon suggestion of Jobs, the boxes were sold out profitably, which was equally divided between both of them.

VISIT TO INDIA:

In Mid-1974, Steve Jobs went to India to visit the Ashram of Neem Karoli Baba for spiritual uplift. On this journey, he was accompanied by his friend, Daniel Kotke. Unfortunately, upon reaching the Ashram, they found the Baba passed away. Due to which, they reached the Ashram of Haidakhan Babaji by trekking up the dry river bed. Seven months later, Steve returned to America with a huge change in his appearance, such as his head was completely shaved.

RETURNING TO ATARI:

Before starting the journey to India, Steve was hired at Atari. Upon returning back to America, he resumed his job, & was assigned to compose a circuit board for arcade game. The design of Steve Jobs was refined by his friend, Steve Wozniak. Atari even offered them $100 for reducing each TTL chip from the board, & to the surprise of Atari's Engineers, Wozniak reduced the chips count to 45. However, some of the missing features were added later by Atari. 

BIRTH OF APPLE:

In 1976, Wozniak completed the design of Apple I & upon the suggestion of Jobs, they both setup Apple Company along with Ronald Wayne, who played the role as an Administrative Overseer. Initially, the operations were held from Job's bedroom, which were lately shifted to garage. At that moment, Jobs planned to manufacture bare printed circuit boards for selling them to computer hobbyists for $50 each. To fund the first batch, Jobs sold his Volkswagen Van & Wozniak sold his HP Scientific Calculator. After this, a Computer Retailer purchased 50 fully assembled Apple I units for $500 each.

As an outcome of this profitable product, in 1977 Jobs & Wozniak invented Apple II. During the designing of this computer, both of them had a heated argument over expansion slots, however the matter got settled by agreeing upon the opinion of Wozniak for having 8 expansion slots. This product of Apple became one of the 1st highly successful mass produced micro-computers in the world.

Moving further, in 1980, Apple III was released. This computer failed due to many manufacturing faults, which included excessive heat issues, chips coming out of sockets, as well as real time clocks were also not working.

After this 1st failure, in 1983, Apple Lisa was introduced, & it was also a huge commercial failure due to high prices, insufficient software, as well as unreliable Apple File ware floppy disks.

In addition to this, Jobs launched Macintosh at De Anza College. This launch was so hyped-up, that Macintosh Engineer narrated the event as "Pandemonium". Whereas, the impoverish performance & limited range of software availability, ultimately led to a rapid decline in the popularity of the product.

Thus, these three loses majorly affected the company's hierarchy, especially the Steve Jobs.

RESIGNATION FROM APPLE:

As a consequence of Macintosh's failure, the relations between Steve Jobs & Apple's CEO, John Sculley got tensed, due to differences in views of one another. Sculley attempted to leave Steve powerless by proposing for reorganization plan, which was about to remove him from Macintosh Group & to put into the charge of New Development. In response to this bold act, although Jobs had prepared an idea to dismiss Sculley from the company, however as it was leaked, so he was confronted by many other officials of the company. Eventually, on 17th September 1985, this vulnerable situation led Steve to resign from the company.

NeXT Computers:

After resignation, Jobs commenced his new venture, NeXT Computers. In 1990, the company first introduced technologically advanced computer, known as NeXT workstations for $9,999. As the prices were too much hiked up, they did not met the potential of market. As the company's products did not put up to the mark of company's agenda, so it derived the company to transition towards software development. This transition helped company to victoriously earned the profit of $1.03 Million in 1994. Additionally, in 1996, the company also launched the framework for the Web Application Development, known as Web Objects. 

GREAT JOURNEY WITH PIXAR:

In 1986, Jobs funded $5 Million to Graphics Group, which was later named to Pixar & Steve Jobs is even enlisted as one of the founders of this firm too. The 1st ever film produced by Pixar in collaboration with Disney was Toy Story, which attained a great warm feedback from the viewers. During Job's life, many other tremendous movies were produced, including, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Finding Nemo, Cars & etc. In 2003-2004, the contract between Pixar & Disney was about to get expired, so at that moment, Steve Jobs & Disney's CEO, Michael Eisner tried to negotiate for renewal, which did not last for long & even Jobs also announced not to deal with Disney again, however as Bob Iger replaced Eisner, so he tried to mend the relations with Pixar. For this, discussions were opened up between both organizations & finally in 2005, Iger as well as Jobs announced the acquistion of Pixar by Disney. Following confirmation of the deal, Steve Jobs became the single largest stakeholder of the company by holding approximately 7% of the stocks. In 2011, upon Job's death, all these stocks were handed over to Steven Paul Jobs Trust, which was headed by Job's wife, Laurence Jobs.

RETURN TO APPLE:

In February 1997, Apple purchased NeXT for $400 Million, as well as brought Steve Jobs back. When Gil Amelio was drove out of company, so Jobs was made as an interim CEO. To channelize Apple towards profitability, Jobs suspended many projects, such as Newton, Cyberdog, & Open Doc. Moreover, he even altered the licensing program for Macintosh by augmenting their prices to prevent manufacturers from creating its clones. Besides this, the operating system NeXTStep was also revolutionized into Mac OS X & even new products were introduced, likewise, iMac, iPod, iPad, iPhone or MacBook. Moving ahead, Apple also started Computer Take Back Campaign to recycle e-waste. In 2000, at Macworld Expo, Jobs was officially declared as the permanent CEO of Apple & under his keen supervision & supreme aspirations, today Apple is standing in the proud list of top 10 companies of the world, with annual revenue of $394.3 Billion as of the report of 2022. 

DEATH:

In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with Cancer & his health was disastrously leaning down day by day. To offer complete rest to his soul, Steve resigned on 24th August 2011 & positioned Tim Cook as his successor. Finally, on 5th October 2011, the mastermind of Apple, Steve Jobs passed away in Palo, Alto, California.