The Contributions Of Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs is one of the significant inventors who changed the world and the individuals’ lifestyle. He was born in California in 1955 (CNBC Titans-Steve Jobs, 2011). He found out his passion in electronics, in California, because it was at the center of the country's growing tech industry (CNBC Titans-Steve Jobs, 2011). Moreover, his adopted father was a high school dropout and was passionate about mechanics; which was another reason for Jobs’ passion in electronics (Isaacson, 2011). In addition, he enrolled at Reed College, but he dropped out of the university because he considers university a waste of time (CNBC Titans-Steve Jobs, 2011). Although Steve didn’t continue his higher education, he changed the media world significantly, especially

When they started working on their second computer Apple II. They added many incredible features to the personal computers. They added colored screens and graphics so that people could play arcade games (CNBC Titans-Steve Jobs, 2011). Furthermore, they added pixels in order to support higher resolution images (CNBC Titans-Steve Jobs, 2011). Additionally, Jobs created an astonishing case for the Apple II and created the first built-in keyboard (CNBC Titans-Steve Jobs, 2011). As a consequence, the demand for Apple II was high and led to the beginning of the personal computer era. Jobs' improvements of computers are known as sustaining innovations. Sustaining innovations are improvements that make products better but don’t replace them or threaten its market (Wu, 2011). Steve Jobs's personal computer is considered a sustaining innovation because his invention didn’t replace the computer, it improve it. However, after all, the success of the Apple I and Apple II, Jobs faced many problems with the sales of the Macintosh due to the lack of software (CNBC Titans-Steve Jobs,

After he had invented Macintosh, he faced some management difficulties in creating software (Okawa, 2013). Jobs faced many problems with the business because he started in a private garage, and he couldn’t manage the company after it grew with many people (Okawa, 2013). To solve the problem, Jobs collaborate with John Sculley, the Pepsi-Cola CEO (Okawa, 2013). However, Jobs didn’t have enough knowledge in management (Okawa, 2013). Therefore, Sculley told him to leave the company (Okawa, 2013). After Jobs had withdrawal from his company, he bought Pixar. Within Pixar Jobs' contribution to the computer did not end there; he also contributed to revolutionizing movies, specifically animated movies. He solved the graphics problem that he faced on the first Macintosh computers in Pixar. He creates 3D animation software in Pixar in early 90s (Ulanoff, 2011). Additionally, he hired a creative animation geeks team that contains Lasseter and Catmull to create the animations with him (Terdiman, 2011). After Pixar had created Toy Story, they became the leader in the CGI and animated films (Esch et al., n.d.).The Toy Story film has made a huge change in the history of movies (Esch et al., n.d.). This is because Jobs first film at Pixar has broken the rules of the animation films. Toy Story was the first animation film that didn’t follow the traditional process of opto-chemical photographic, because Jobs produced the