"We started getting a computer in the hands of ordinary people, and we succeeded beyond our wildest dreams."

- Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer Inc., 1976.

Steve Jobs was adopted to a family in Mountain View, California. While still in high school, the focus on employment in electronics prompted him to call William Hewlett of Hewlett-Packard to order some parts for a school project. Hewlett provided the parties and then did a job to intern at Hewlett-Packard for the summer. There, Jobs met Steve Wozniak, a talented engineer and know five years greater than the high school student. Their friendship eventually be the basis upon which was built by Apple.

Jobs dropped out of Reed College after one semester and went to work designing games for Atari. The care of collecting the money he earned while working at Atari for him to make a trip to India and to satisfy their interest effervescent by the spiritualism of the East.

After returning from India, Jobs and Wozniak renewed their friendship. Jobs showed a small computer that Wozniak had been working as a hobby, but jobs immediately saw his potential and persuaded Wozniak to go into business with him. In 1975 at age 20, Jobs went to work at his parents' garage with Wozniak, Apple working on the prototype I.

The apple that sold modestly, but well enough to could go to work on the Apple II. In 1977, the new model went on sale. With a keyboard, color monitors and user-friendly software, Apple became a success. The company won $ 3 million in its first year and exceeded $ 200 million in the third.

However, in addition to the Apple III and his successor, LISA not sell as expected and a marked increase in competition in the sale of PCs, 1980 saw Apple lose almost half its sales to IBM. Things got worse for employment in 1983, when a fight with the directors he launched the Board by the Director General, John Sculley, Jobs had hired.

In 1984, in response to the sharp drop in sales, Jobs launched Apple's Macintosh, which introduced the world to the point-and mouse-click simplicity. The marketing of the Mac is handled badly and with a price tag of $ 2,500, was finding its way into homes for which they had designed. Jobs tried to repackage the Mac as a business team, but without a drive disk or networking, not to mention only a small memory capacity, the companies were not interested. In 1985, without any power in his own company, Jobs sold his shares in Apple and resigned.

Back in 1985, Jobs started NeXT Computer Co. he'da with money from the sale of shares at Apple. It planned to build a team to change the way research was done. The next team, but complete with processing speeds never before seen, the unsurpassed graphics, and an optical drive at $ 9950 each, sold poorly.

Persistent failures after the company NeXT, Jobs began playing with the software and began focusing their attention on a company bought he'd George Lucas in 1986, Pixar Animation Studios. Jobs signed three films with Disney, and began working on the team's first animated feature. Released in the fall of 1995, has adopted a "toy Story four years to make. But the work had been well worth it, the film was an incredible success. Pixar was published in 1996, and a trading day, the employment rate of 80% had become a $ 1 billion.

Apple was struggling, not design a new system Macintosh OS, and the only company on 5% of the PC market. Days after the public became Pixar, Apple bought NeXT for $ 400 million Jobs and renamed the board of directors to advise Gilbert F. Amelio, president and CEO. However, in March 1997, Apple posted a quarterly loss of 708 million dollars, and Amelio resigned a few months later. Jobs was in charge as acting CEO and went to him to keep the same company that had begun alive and had overthrown. So he made a deal with Microsoft. With an investment of 150 million U.S. dollars for a small stake in Apple, Apple and Microsoft to "cooperate in several sales and technology fronts, and Apple would be assured of continuity in the PC market.

Jobs also went to work to improve the quality of Apple hardware. The introduction of microprocessors for Apple Power PC G3 was faster than the computers operating on Pentium. Apple also turned his energies toward producing a low-cost desktop, the iMac, which was another success for the company. With jobs, again in control, Apple was able to quickly change course, and by the end of 1998, brought in $ 5.9 billion in sales. Jobs had returned to his first love, a little more old and a little wiser. Apple had become healthy again and again provide a place where new and innovative technologies to the world of computing.

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