Left, Steve Jobs and on the right, Steve Wozniak, are inventing a gadget.
Prologue to a New generation
In the early 1970's, Steve Jobs met Steve Wozniak (a computer genius) in high school through a friend named Bill Fernandez. Wozniak showed Jobs the first product he had invented, the Apple I Computer. Jobs admired this creation and came up with the notion of selling it to people. So then that is when they stated to sell these PC's to people around the neighbourhood.
In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started selling the "Apple I Computers" to people. They sold the computers in a garage in California. Almost one year later, Steve Wozniak invented the Apple Computer called the "Apple II Computer". This version made the first one like a pushover. The Apple II Computer had a more powerful system and had supported colour graphics. Jobs and Wozniak had a hunch that this would be the product that would earn them a lot of money. That lead to Steve Jobs trying to convince the Intel executive, Mike Markkula. He successfully persuaded him to invest into Apple Inc. for $250,000 in 1977. Three years later, Jobs' net worth share gained over $200 million when he was only at the age of 25.
In the youth of the 1980's, Jobs saw the potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphic user interface. He later on got obsessed with GUI (Graphic User Interface). This then lead to the creation of the "Apple Lisa". Shortly after, an Apple employee, Jef Raskin, invented the "Macintosh".
In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started selling the "Apple I Computers" to people. They sold the computers in a garage in California. Almost one year later, Steve Wozniak invented the Apple Computer called the "Apple II Computer". This version made the first one like a pushover. The Apple II Computer had a more powerful system and had supported colour graphics. Jobs and Wozniak had a hunch that this would be the product that would earn them a lot of money. That lead to Steve Jobs trying to convince the Intel executive, Mike Markkula. He successfully persuaded him to invest into Apple Inc. for $250,000 in 1977. Three years later, Jobs' net worth share gained over $200 million when he was only at the age of 25.
In the youth of the 1980's, Jobs saw the potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphic user interface. He later on got obsessed with GUI (Graphic User Interface). This then lead to the creation of the "Apple Lisa". Shortly after, an Apple employee, Jef Raskin, invented the "Macintosh".
Could it be the end?
In 1985, Steve Jobs came up with a notion that he could start running up a new computer company containing some former Apple employees. They would sue him for taking that precious information about Apple Inc. He would eventually have to resign as the chairman of board in September. Jobs still stuck to his plan of forming a new computer company called "NeXT".
The "NeXT" ERA
Later on in the year 1985, Steve Jobs founded NeXt Inc. with $7 million. Steve wanted the best quality hardware, and the most recent and advanced software for his newest creation, the "NeXt Machine". After a year had gone by, Steve Jobs was becoming bankrupt after all of the co-founders had left, with no new product on the verge of coming out. A billionaire, Ross Perot, invested massively into this company. After that had happened, the "NeXt Cube" came out to public in 1990. This computer had very advanced technology.Universities really wanted this machine. The only problem was that the machines that Steve Jobs were making were too expensive. The starting price for these computers were valued at $10,000 but the universities wanted to pay $3,000. By 1993, NeXt would have to surrender their hardware business to convert into a software supplier.
He's back!
A quote from Steve Jobs was "Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest". Well boy Steve Jobs was right about that. When he returned back to Apple Inc, a whole bunch of new products starting popping out of no where. The first product that came out after his return was the "iMac" in 1998. This creation was an inspiration from the Macintosh.
When he came back, at the same time Windows had come up with "Windows 95" as their newest software. That meant that Apple had to make "Mac OS" (software). The people at Apple thought it was lame. CEO at that time, Gil Amelio, decided to buy NeXt's operating system. Amelio bought the entire company for a humongous price valued at $400 million.
When he came back, at the same time Windows had come up with "Windows 95" as their newest software. That meant that Apple had to make "Mac OS" (software). The people at Apple thought it was lame. CEO at that time, Gil Amelio, decided to buy NeXt's operating system. Amelio bought the entire company for a humongous price valued at $400 million.
A New Century
The Mac OS X series of software the Mac OS X, (Mac OS 9), and the Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. These productions of software would have improved features etc... Then Jobs came up with the idea of the "Digital Hub" strategy. This was like a bunch of affiliated software that would help create personal media or retrieve media like songs. (e.g. iMovie, iDVD, iTunes, and iPhoto). Jobs thought that this could be the "money-maker"because only Mac's could run this specific type of software.
Apple Nation
After the "Digital Hub", in 2001, the "iPod" had been released to the public. This was the first hand-held apparatus of media made by Apple Inc. This lead to many other creations inspired by this one like the iPod Touch, iPod Nano, and the iPod Shuffle. Next, the "iPhone" was released to the public in 2007. In addition, the iPhone 3G came out a year later after its first version. Then the iPhone 3GS came out and it had better features like a better camera. Next the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S came out. To sum it all up, every generation of the iPhone had improved features that attracted a lot of consumers into buying the popular smartphone. Also the innovation of the iMac created the line of the "MacBook", a laptop/portable version of the iMac.