4월 8일 토픽(Steve Jobs)

[Daunte]

Steve Jobs.

Please read the followings, if you are interested in a highly-gifted pioneer in modern times.

(Quoted from P.E.)

Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955 in Green Bay, Wisconsin to Joanne Simpson and an Egytian-Arab father who were both graduate students at the University of Wisconsin.

Sadly, they gave him up for adoption. He was soon adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, The family moved to Mountain View located just south of Palo Alto, California. This place was known as “Silicon Valley”. A place where electronics were manufactured with a substance called silicon, thus the reason behind the name.

As a young child, he didn’t have much interest in school and would often horse around in class. His fourth grade teacher would have to bribe him to study. But to everyone’s surprise, he excelled on all his tests despite the fact hi didn’t pay much attention in class. At on point, administrators encouraged Job’s parents to skip him ahead to high school. His parent declined.

His interest in electronics began with his father who was a machinist and skilled with his hands. He spent may afternoons in the family garage with his father taking apart electronics and reconstructing them. He also enrolled in the Hewlett-Packard Explorer Club. He saw his first computer at the age of twelve where he saw engineers demonstrate new products. He was very impressed. And knew right away that he wanted to work with computers. One day, he courageously asked William Hewlett, the president, for some parts to complete a class project. Hewlett was so impressed that he gave Jobs the part and offered him a summer intership at tha company while Jobs was in high school.

Ater finishing high school, he enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregan, but soon dropped out of school after six months, He dropped in on classes that he liked like calligraphy and philosophy. He later took up a job at Atari, Inc. which was a leading manufacturer of video games at the time. In 1975, Jobs joined a group known as the Homebrew computer club. He befriended a memver, a technical whiz named Steve Wozniak who was trying to build a small computer.

After returning from his travels to India, he and Wozniak formed their own company. They called it Apple Computer Company, in memory of a happy summer Jobs had spent picking aplles. The first personal computer

Was sold for $666.66 The company’s sales grew to $200 miilion within three years.

In 1985, Jobs resigned from the company he had helped found. In his graduation speech at Stanford, he felt that getting fired from his company was one of the best things that could have happened to him. He realized that he was a great visionary but a poor businessman. It freed him from the heaviness of being successful and enabled him to enter one of his most creative periods of his life.

In 1985, he found a new hardware and software company called NeXT, Inc. in 1986. Jobs purchased a small company called Pixar from filmmaker George Lucas. Pixar specialized in computer animation and nine years later Pixar released Toy Story, a huge box office hit. Pixar went on to pruduce other such as A Bug’s life, Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo.

Apple eventually bought the company in 1997 for $429 million. That same year, Jobs returned to his post as Apple’s CEO. This time he proved himself to be a good businessman by revitalizing the company in the 1990s

He insisted on receiving a salary of $1 a year and put Apple back on track.. Some of his ingenious prducts included the iMac, the iPod in 2003, and iTunes.

In 2004, there was a cancerous tumor in his pancreas, which was successfully operated upon. However his health deteriorated which led to a liver transplant in 2009. In 2011, he officially resigned from his position as he felt he could no longer carry on his responsibilities as CEO. On October 5, 2011. Steve jobs passed away.

Question)

1.       Do you know about Steve Job? Who is your most favorite, respectful and creative celebrity?

2.       What do you think of I-phone, first smart phone in the world? Does it really change our life?

3.       Do you prefer SAMSUNG GALAXY Series or I-phone Series of Apple co.

4.       Do you have any plan or idea to organize a venture business or your own business in the future?

5.       Speaking of Smart phone, which is the most convenient function?

And Your most often accessing application?

Steve Jobs.doc

[Daunte]

Paul Plz upload a topic for us next week.^^

[Coby(김창선)]

감사합니다.

[scott(박범석)]

늦게라도 올리려고 왔는데 형님이 올려두셨군요^^ 감사합니다~~^^

[Daunte]

ㅋㅋ토픽 꼭 읽고와

[paul - 대성]

what up? I am not a uploader for this week. Anyway Thx.