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A Legend is Born
Stephan Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco to Joanne Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali. In the same month he was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs in San Francisco, who then moved to Mountain View, California, five months later. -
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Steve Jobs
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A Higher Education ?
Graduates from Homestead High School in Cupertino, Calif. Works a summer internship that summer at Hewlett - Packard Company with Steve Wozniak , who would later be a major contribution to Apple Enrolls at Reed College in Portland, Ore., drop out a semester later. Jobs would go on to sit in on classes that interested him, such as calligraphy, despite not getting credit for them. -
Apple Computer Inc.
Apple Computer Inc. is incorporated by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne. That same year, the company sells the Apple I in the form of a kit that sells for $666.66. -
Apple ll
The first commercially available personal computer in a plastic case with color graphics--and Apple's first successful personal computer. -
Apple Goes Public
Steve Jobs' net worth to over $200 million. -
CEO Battle
May they had a meeting that settled the debuts where board members sided with sculley and Jobs was kicked out of apple . That same year he founded NeXT and made the first NeXT computer in 1985 -
Macintosh
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NeXT
Jobs starts NeXT Computer (which later becomes NeXT Software). An "interpersonal" NeXT workstation, sporting a built-in Ethernet port, is used by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN to become the first server of the World Wide Web. -
Pixar
For $10 million, buys the Graphics Group division of Lucasfilm that becomes Pixar Animation Studios. -
Success in Pixar
Becomes Pixar's president and CEO. Later in the year, Jobs brings Pixar pubic one week after the release of "Toy Story," with Tom Hanks doing the voice of Woody and Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear. The film earns $192 million at the box office. Its success helps make it quite attractive for celebrities to lend their voices to animated characters. -
Return to Apple
Returns to Apple, as an adviser, after it buys NeXT for $429 million. -
CEO of Apple
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Opening of Apple Store
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Offical CEO
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iTunes
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The 1st iPod
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iTunes Store
Opens the iTunes Music Store in the United States. Apple sold 10 billion songs via iTunes as of February 24, 2010, and it counted 225 million iTunes accounts with credit cards as of June 2011. Also around this time Job's was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer. -
The First Nano
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Macs
Steve Jobs introduces the first two Intel Macs at Macworld, the iMac and the MacBook Pro -
Pixar & Disney
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Change In Names
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iPad
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Time Magazine
