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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computers.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer in 1976. The combination of Jobs's energy and Wozniak's ability with computers they were both a powerful team. The Pair showed off their first home-built computer the Apple I, at the Silicon Valley's Homebrew Computer Club in 1976. Jobs managed a contract with the byte shop to manufacture 100 machines. -
Apple I
The Apple I was developed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne. Steve Wozniak built the circuit-board, Ron Wayne wrote the Apple I Operation Manual at his home and Steve Jobs advertised the Apple I. The Apple I was advertised at the Homebrew Computer Club. The owner of the Byte Shop and commissioned the assembling of 50 fully assembled Apple I computers for $500 each. The computer was meant for hobbyists who would add their own displays and ASCII keyboards. -
Apple II
The Apple II released by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak became one of the most popular computers ever. It was a vast improvement over the Apple I despite the same processor and same speed at which the computers run. The Apple II featured a color display, up to 48k ram, eight internal expansion slots and a case with a keyboard. The main feature of the Apple II was the eight internal expansion slots. No computer at this time featured that much flexibility or expansion possibilities. -
The Apple II becomes the first mass-market personal computer
The Apple II was the first commercially successful mass market personal computer which was designed as a household computer or business item. The Apple II was largely used in schools and businesses. The reason that the Apple II was used so much in business and what was a major selling point was that the Apple II featured the spreadsheet program VisiCalc which is similar to Microsoft Excel. This program was able to do something accountants would spend hours doing. -
Steve Jobs resigns from Apple and starts NeXT
In 1983 John Sculley became the CEO of Apple, while Jobs was working on the Macintosh which was released in 1984. After disappointing Macintosh sales, the board held a meeting and chose to remove jobs as head of the Macintosh division and named him chairman, which led to him resigning.
Jobs the founded NeXT, which released the NeXT workstation which was $9999. As a result of the cost the computer didn't sell very well. After another failed computer NeXT transitioned into software creation. -
Steve Jobs Returns to Apple
Steve Jobs was named interim chief executive of a struggling Apple. When Jobs came back to Apple and influenced the company with his confidence in the future sales started to rise once again. On January 8, 1998 Jobs announced on stage that Apple was once again making profit, for the first time since 1996, the company had made $45 million profit in the final quarter of 1997. -
Steve Jobs Unveils the First iPhone
Steve Jobs took the stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to give one of the greatest keynotes in Jobs's career. This new product put Apple on track to become one of the most valuable companies in the world. The iPhone was not the first phone with a touchscreen but it was the first phone with a multi touch display, which means users could perform natural gestures such as rotating an image using two fingers. The iPhone was the first phone that came with data plans bundled. -
Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple
In the Fall of 2003 Steve Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
On the 7th of January 2011 Steve Jobs announced a medical leave of absence without an end date.
On the 24th of August Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple with the words 'I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.'
On the 5th of October 2011 Steve Jobs sadly passed away.
