Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Who is Steve Jobs?

Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955)
  • American businessman
  • co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc.
  • former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios
  • created one of the first commercially successful personal computers with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
  • the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface

  • in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT because of losing the power struggle with the board of directors
  • In 1986, Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division
  • early 2004, Jobs announced that the partnership between Pixar and NeXT will end once its contract with Disney expired
  • in 1996, Jobs back to Apple Inc.
  • the computer produced some famous products like Macintosh computers, OS X operating system, iPods, the iTunes online store, the iPhone
  • MacOS X is a “proprietary operating system"

Source from: "Steve Jobs" Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Jobs)

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