What Is The Success Of Steve Jobs: Achievement And Success?

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Success only comes when one is fully determined, dedicated and put the best of his efforts towards achieving his goals. It’s the desire to accomplish something that brings about achievement and success. At a younger age Jobs already had interest in computers and it was his desire to create and sell computers to the public. Steve Jobs tremendous ideas widely changed the course of technology and brought a significant turning point in our history. Steve Jobs’ interest in electronics started way back in High School. His neighbor, Bill Fernandez who had the same interest, introduced him to Steve Wozniak. Wozniak was highly skilled in computer and electronics. After completing High School in the year 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College where …show more content…

Jobs had great entrepreneural skills; he not only wanted to sell his computer to computer enthusiasts but to the general public. Hitherto, other computers were made of metal box but Jobs being an ambitious, creative, competitive and skilled-marketing man, changed the looks of Apple II to a cream colored plastic led which was appealing to the eye. He made sure that Apple II looked professional and attractive which consequently led to high sales of $2.7 million within the first year and a turnover of two hundred million dollars within the first three years (Vegter). Steve Jobs had a complex personality; he was a sweet person on one hand and a very strict person on the other hand (Vegter). He was able to coax anybody especially if it was about an endeavor that would be of benefit to him. He had no limit of expressing his opinions to the extent of even shouting at people. He was a cruel, pushy, dictatorial and a charismatic fellow. His colleagues called him “Steve reality distortion field” (Vegter). He believed that something was either brilliant or not. One of his famous beliefs was that nothing is impossible. It was this that led to the success of the …show more content…

The introduction of Apple II computer introduced a new era of personal computers. It completely revolutionized the world of technology and since then there has been tremendous improvement in the new technological products created. The MAC OS X operating system has powerful video and gaming graphics that is preferably used by many programmers in the world. The introduction of iPods, iPhones and iTunes completely changed the Entertainment and music industry. In general, Apple products have been successful and currently share a bigger cut of the market thanks to the visionary, creative and genius hero of technology – Steven Paul

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