Saturday, November 12, 2011

A Timeline of Steve Jobs - His Vision, Creativity and Strong Will

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Steve Jobs experienced 56 years of colourful live that saw him rise, fall and rise again. A man that never looked back and blessed with a great mind, he was a truly special man that cannot be replaced by anyone else. Here, you will see what he has brought to the world during his lifetime.
1970 - 1976: Steve Jobs started high school and continue his study at Reed College. He met Steve Wozniak at high school, which would later become his partner in Apple Inc. (Apple Computers at that time). He built his first computer, Apple I in his own bedroom.
1977 - 1982: He releases Apple II that comes with colour graphics in 1977 and later developed Lisa, a desktop computer aimed for business customers. The following computer, Apple III is also aimed for the same market. Steve Jobs' first cover appearance is in 1982 where he was featured on the cover of Time Magazine in the February issue.
1983 - 1989: He launched Macintosh in 1984 and despite its sale success; he was out from Apple on 1985. This is his downfall but because of his great will, he later founded NeXT that specialised in developing hardware and software. At the same year, he bought the computer division in LucasFilm and renamed it Pixar. His first real failure comes at 1989 where the NeXTcube fails tremendously in the market place.
1990 - 1998: Despite the great failure, he managed to bounce back and make NeXT and Pixar a great and world-known companies. Later in the year 1996, he returned to Apple after NeXT was bought by the company and he became Apple's interim CEO and chairman in 1997. He unleashed iMac, a desktop that was a big hit in the market in 1998.
1999 - 2004: He then released iBook in 1999 which also became a massive hit like its counterpart, the iMac. He then became Apple's permanent CEO in 2000 and launched the first iPod in 2001. iTunes Music Store started operation in 2003 to support the iPod and it hits 25 million downloads in that year alone. 2004 is the year when Steve Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
2005 - 2011: Despite his health condition, he steeled himself and continue his work at Apple. In 2005, Apple released iPod Nano and iTunes reached a milestone of 500 million downloads, a massive 2000% increase compared to its first year of operation. In 2006, MacBook Pro was released and the following year, the first iPhone was released. Starting from that year, Apple then released a new version of iPhone every year and iPad joins the same modus operandi in 2010.
5th October 2011 is the black day where Steve Jobs left the world because of pancreatic cancer complication.
Alvin is a fan of Steve Jobs. If you want to know what makes Steve Jobs, a Steve Jobs, read this blog post.
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