According to the Fortune 500 they are number one in innovation. They specialize in finding out what people want in a computer and then give it to them. Apple Inc. is the name and would be a great long term investment in the stock market because the company is really innovative with products like the iPod, iMac, MACBOOK, iTunes, iPhone and their newest product the iPad. Apple is number six in company financial soundness and will be around for years to come. (money.cnn.com) Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in the city of San Francisco, CA. As a baby he was put up for adoption, and was adopted by a middle-class couple from the Bay Area, Paul and Clara Jobs. He grew up in the valley and was surrounded by apricot orchards. At the age 14, Steve Jobs met Steve Wozniak age 19, and they quickly became good friends. (allaboutstevejobs.com) The year was 1974 it all started with the Apple l. Steve Wozniak showed a circuit board he had been working on to Jobs, and Jobs was impressed. They decided to build more of these circuit boards. Short on cash for parts for the circuit boards, Steve sold his Volkswagen Van, and Wozniak sold his HP calculator. It was made in Steve’s garage and the case was a wooden box. By 1976 the Apple 1 was complete. Only a circuit board at the time. It was really advanced for the times. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak showed it to software hobbyist from The Homebrew Computer Club. The club members were not impressed with the computer, so the guys from the club paid it no mind. Only one guy from the club took them serious his name was Paul Terrel. Paul was opening a new computer store and thought the Apple 1 was what he needed in his store. He ordered 50 at $500 each for the new Apple 1. After the sell to Paul... ... middle of paper ... ...eat company to invest in. Works Cited Apple. Jan. 2011. Web. Feb.-Mar. 2011. . "Find California Code." Official California Legislative Information. Jan. 2010. Web. 24 Mar. 2011. . Moisescot, Romain. "Long Biography of Steve Jobs (Youth)." All about Steve Jobs.com. 24 Feb. 2006. Web. 24 Mar. 2011. . More, Carol Loomis. "Fortune 500 2010: Annual Ranking of America's Largest Corporations from Fortune Magazine." Business, Financial, Personal Finance News - CNNMoney.com. 2010. Web. 24 Mar. 2011. . "Stock Market & Financial Markets Overview - Bloomberg." Bloomberg - Business & Financial News, Breaking News Headlines. Mar. 2011. Web. 10 Mar. 2011. .
Steve Jobs is a world-renowned entrepreneur who revolutionized the technology industry. He is best known as Apple’s co-founder (“Obituary: Steve Jobs”, 2011). Jobs’ numerous innovations not only changed the world, but they also developed the personal computer industry. The Apple co-founder never seized to amaze his audience with his endless unique innovations. Throughout his career, Jobs contributed to the technology industry with devices such as the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iMac and MacBook (O'Reilly, 2011). His death on October 5, 2011 marked the end of an innovative streak (O'Reilly, 2011).
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The Apple Company began with three best friends, a garage and a very humble environment. The three friends were Jobs and Wozniak Steves, and their best friend Ronald Wayne. According to the story, if it wasn’t for Wayne, today there would not be any iPhones, iPads and/or iPods. After creating some old fashion
In 1976 college dropouts Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, assisted by Ron Wayne embarked on a path to start a tech company that would create new innovative products by connecting people all over the world. This company came to be known as Apple Computers which has become a global leader in Technology and cultural innovation. The rise of Apple computers did not come easy and along with the major success obtained their failures have not gone without notice. Yet, through the joy of success and the agony of defeat, Apple has continued to reinvent its brand over four decades.
Steve Jobs was born on Feburary 24, 1995 in Green Bay Wisconsin. His biological mother put him up for adaptation, because she could not care for him and give him a good child hood. She requested that her son to be placed with a well-educated family. When Steve Jobs was growing up he Didn’t have any friends so he wandered to neighbors garages looking to learn more about electronics because a lot of them were engineers. Steve jobs liked fiddling with electronics so much that he spent his time after school at the packyard electronics company learning more in depth about how to make electronic devices. Steve jobs had a hard time focusing in class. Until his fourth grade teacher found a way to get him to focus in class it was by bribing him to do his work. That worked so well that the school recommended him to skip fifth grade and go straight to junior high. Steve jobs told his parents he did not like the school that he was going to, and wanted to change schools. Steve Jobs and his parents moved to silicon valley where there was a premiere school for electronics and technology. He found a friend when he was in high school that was a geek just like him, that friend was Stephen Woznick. Stephen Woznic...
Steve wozniak was born in California on August 11, 1950. He was fascinated by electronics at a very early age. As a teenager he designed computers and computer innovations. His moms name was Margaret Wozniak, and she died at age 91. And his dads name was Francis Jacob Wozniak and he was an aerospace engineer at Lockheed.
Steve Jobs and his friend Wozniak started to create their very first computer, and it came out a lot better than what they thought it was going to be. With very little education, the first computer that came out was extraordinary. “It was the first single-board computer with built-in circuitry allowing for direct video interface, along with a central ROM, which allowed it to load programs from an external source” (“Steve P. Jobs”). Without the education that most people get, for someone who dropped out of college, Jobs created such a powerful computer without the knowledge that most people have. Jobs computer that he created along with his friend was so astonishing a second computer came out. “A year later, the Apple II was launched with a simple, compact design like the Apple I, plus a color monitor” (“Steve Paul Jobs”). The first computer that Jobs created was excellent enough to create a second one, which was also a superior computer. Even though Jobs dropped out of college, he was still intelligent enough to create one of the biggest companies in the world. Apple incorporations was going strong until one day the company decided to let Steve Jobs go,...
In early 1976 Wozniak and Jobs finish work on a preassembled computer circuit board. It has no Product keyboard, case, sound or graphics. They call it the Apple I. They form the Apple Computer Company on April Fool's Day and sold the Apple I board for $666.66 at the Home brew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California.
It all started in the garage of a twenty-something Steve Jobs. He and a friend put what little money they had together ($1300) to make the first computer for Apple, and thus Apple was born. The idea for the first Apple motherboard was made by Jobs while he was on LSD. He was quoted in the New York Times saying, “Taking LSD is one of two or three of the best decisions I have ever made.” Markoff, John. "New York Times." What the Dormouse Said 2005: 3. Steve Jobs talks about his early success when stating, “when I was 23 I had a net worth of over a million dollars, at 24 it was over $10 million, and at 25 it was over $100 million.” Steve Jobs is a true embodiment of what Apple is: unique. Co-founder Steve Wozniak said this about Jobs, “With Steve Jobs you never know exactly where an idea comes from.” This is what Apple is, not conventional and predictable. However, when looking at their marketi...
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Computers and technology makes it easier for entrepreneurs to enter this market. Not only are major tech companies competing against one another, but they are also competing against little programmers that know how to code. In our time you will never know with certainty when a small group of engineers or computer scientists are going to create, “next big thing”. Apple has been able to have a competitive advantage over its competitor by creating the highest quality products and services. Some of Apple’s current competitors are Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, and a few other tech companies as well. Most people strongly people Apple is one of the stronger company its industry, but then again some other people have biased views. Financially, they are the strongest company in the world. Also people are always willing to pay a premium for their products because of their durability, quality, and prior experiences with Apple products. Apple is always on the look at for new innovative ideas and concept that are being produced by self-motivated entrepreneurs. They are always looking to hire bright minds and let them develop within the company. A lot of entrepreneurs, programmers and engineers do not have a problem working for Apple because of their well-established perks. Apple offers its employees of the best benefits in the world. They also fairly compensate their employees that work in the front-end store as
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With his unique love for technology, Steve Jobs changed the world with his revolutionary innovations, developments, and extremely successful companies. He made communication faster, people’s lives easier, and invented many famous products. Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco, California (Ed. Sheila Dow and Jaime E. Noce). Throughout his high school career, Jobs loved electronics. He was constantly wiring the house with speakers or building frequency counters with his Hewlett-Packard Explorers Club, a group of students who met weekly to learn about what HP was working on. One day the club members took a trip to see firsthand at what HP was developing at the time. That was the day Jobs saw his very first desktop computer (Walter Isaacson 16-17).
Success is the result of very long travel to objective but in right drection and right speed. Every successful person or entity knows how much effort is required and sometimes a minor slip can throw you miles away but that would be a big tragedy. However here we are talking about Apple that has achieved success through ingenuity and decades of hard work.
Steve Jobs has significantly impacted today’s society and many industries. Steve Jobs was born in February 24th, 1955 in San Francisco California. He was adopted at birth by Paul Jobs (1922 -1993) and Clara Jobs (1924 ` 1986). Jobs went through rocky days in elementary school. Despite his rough time in elementary school, Steve was able to skip couple of grades. Steve enrolled at Reed College in Oregon but he dropped out after six month. Steve studied creative classes, including calligraphy.