Steve Jobs

  • birth

    birth
    He was born in the United States in Palo Alto (San Francisco, California) it was adoptedby a couple of Armenian descent , grew up with his sister Patty.
  • Period: to

    Steven Paul Jobs

  • Primary and secondary studies

    He attended Cupertino Middle School Elementary and secondary Homestead HS, also in Cupertino.A Jobs was interested enough electronics and gadgets, reason that led him to join a club called Hewlett - Packard Explorer Club, where engineers Hewlett Packard youth showed their new products.
  • University

    In 1972 enters the University Reed College in Portland. She attends only 6 months before leaving due to the high cost of their studies. Instead of returning home, she continues to attend classes as a listener about 18 months , based on work living with negligible revenues. Interestingly , studies in calligraphy would be useful when you design the typography of the first Mac .
  • Apple bith

    His first partner (Stephen Wozniak) joined the company they founded Apple Computer, based in the Jobs family garage. Apple Steve Jobs chose the name as a reminder of the days when he worked on the collection of your favorite fruit, apple.
  • NeXT Computer

    Steve Jobs founded a new computer company, NeXT Computer released its first computer, full of great features, but that was not profitable because of its high price and its incompatibility with most existing systems on the market.
  • PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS

    With film director George Lucas founded Pixar Animation Studios, focused on producing computer-animated films
  • apple back

    Defeated in their lawsuits against Microsoft and plunged into a deep crisis, in December 1996 decided to buy NeXT Apple Computer, marking the return of Steve Jobs to the company he founded
  • iphone presentation

    In 2007 it introduced the iPhone, first family of high-end smart phones produced by Apple. Declared "Invention of the Year" by Time magazine, integrated touch screen keyboard vertical and horizontal orientation, and incorporated a three-megapixel camera, music reader (with the same functions as an iPod) and browser Internet
  • ipad presentation

    in 2010 he stunned the world with the iPad, a hybrid tablet and mobile phone; a light and very thin 9.7-inch touch screen on the back containing processing power and all the benefits of a laptop, without keyboard or mouse
  • His death

    At 56 years old, he died at his home in Palo Alto, victim of cancer progression that he had been detected in 2003.