Steve Jobs
The Genius of the Comupter Industry
Triumphs
- While working with Wozniak at Atari, the pair designed a circut board that used an extremely small number of chips that even an assembly line could not produce
- The pair also created a "blue box" that allowed free long distance calls
- Founded NeXT Computer after leaving Apple for a while
- Created the NeXT workstation which, like the Apple Lisa was very technologically advanced
- Bought Pixar
- Introduced the hugely popular iMac, and iPod
Obstacles
- Jobs was very tempermental
- Early on, had little technological knowledge
- Experimented with drugs
- Built extremely expensive computer at NeXT
- Developed cancer
Career Goals
- Jobs always strived for aestheticly pleasing looking technology
- Wanted his products to be at the forefront of the technology industry
- Products had to be at the highest of quality
- His business model were The Beatles
Apple and why they are great
- Made computers fun to use
- All of their products look pleasing to the eye
- Created a whole new revolution of portable music
- Operating system was simple and easy to use compared to Windows and Linux
- Had a less is more approach to make products look cleaner