https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65 By Karen Blumenthal en-us 2021-04-26 20:49:56 UTC 2021-06-10 20:24:17 UTC hello@padlet.com jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1470965356 Blumenthal, Karen. Steve Jobs: the Man Who Thought Different: a Biography. Square Fish, 2013. ]]> 2021-04-28 20:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1470965356 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1476811853 Joanne Schieble found out she was pregnant and moved to San Francisco. She was taken in by a doctor who specialized in taking care of unmarried mothers and helped arranged adoptions. The baby was born on, February 24, 1955. Soon, Clara and Paul Jobs adopted him and named the baby, Steven Paul. Few years later, the family adopted another daughter, Patty Jobs. ]]> 2021-04-30 03:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1476811853 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1476831896 Clara, Steve's mother, taught Steve how to read at a early age. This gave him an head start to school. But when entering school, he was unfortunately bored with being in class. To many teachers, he was known as a trouble maker, instead of a special kid. Until family money became a problem. Mrs. Hill, Steve's teacher, convinced that if Steve could finish his math workbook on his own, with an 80% accuracy, then he would get $5 dollars and a big lollipop. Eventually, Steve didn't need the incentive and did all the work. His school interest reignited. Steve then, skipped 1 grade level in middle school. But he was bullied in 7th grade since he was 1 year younger than all his classmates. Telling his parents this information, they moved to Los Altos and thus, leading to the shift of Steve's interest.]]> 2021-04-30 03:58:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1476831896 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1479490021 Santa Clara Valley was packed with engineers and tinkerers. Eventually, Steve found interest in technology. His classmate, Bill Fernandez was a good friend of Steve, sharing the same interests. When Steve entered high school in 1968, Bill introduced Steve to Wozniak, who was obsessed with electronics and a good friend of Bill. Woz was 5 years older than Steve, but according to the biography: "Despite the age difference, the two hit it off from the start. Jobs admired that Wozniak knew more about electronics than he did, and felt like his maturity, and Woz's immaturity, just about matched." Wozniak appreciated that "Steve got it right away. And I liked him. He was kind of skinny and wiry and full of energy" (pg 37- Quote 1).]]> 2021-04-30 18:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1479490021 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1479577385 Steve entering high school in 1968 -Assassination of MLK in 1968]]> 2021-04-30 18:42:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1479577385 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1480185439 During the time at his parents' house, Job saw a intriguing help wanted ad on the newspaper. Making the job quickly after, his work was to refine and improve games. The company founder, Nolan Bushnell gave Steve a special assignment to do. He wanted Steve to program a game called breakout. Steve asked his friend, Wozniak to help him out since he dropped out of college to make money. Steve allegedly agreed upon giving Woz half of the revenue, which was $350. But with the game doing so well, the company  gave him a $5,000 bonus in which he never gave or told Woz. Stated in the book, "Still, both Bushnell and Alcorn remember that a bonus was paid - and Woz is sure he received only $350. It was an ugly side of Steve Jobs, the charmer who sometimes only took care of himself"  (pg 65-Quote 2).]]> 2021-04-30 23:08:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1480185439 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1480355359 Wozniak had an idea of creating a personal computer. In the early 1970s, in Silicon Valley, Intel Corporation developed a single chip that could be programmed to perform all kinds of new and distinct functions. This fueled the idea. Wozniak could design and build the parts, but he needed Job to get circuit boards and sell the products. They both needed each other to make this company work. Building their first computer, money was what they needed. They were rejected from many investors until they met A.C. "Mike" Markkula. Mike seeing the computer quoted, "It was what I had wanted since I left high school," (page 86-Quote 3).]]> 2021-05-01 01:51:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1480355359 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1480375986 The world's first every Microprocessor developed in 1971]]> 2021-05-01 02:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1480375986 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1480413656 In January 1977, the Apple Computer Company was formally created, with Jobs, Wozniak, and Markkula. Markkula brought a former coworker named Mike Scott as president. In the spring of 1977, West Coast held its first computer fair. Apple took home 300 orders for its $1,298 computer. That's when Apple computer company grew. ]]> 2021-05-01 03:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1480413656 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1480434531 Apple Inc. - Apple Computer Company founded in January 1977]]> 2021-05-01 03:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1480434531 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481343792 Steve Jobs and his employees came up with a new computer called, Macintosh. With the Lisa project presented poorly, he wanted the computer to be perfect. After Mike Scott left the company, Jobs needed a new leader. Finding John Sculley, the leader of Pepsi-Cola. Leading with Sculley who had the same vision as Jobs, made things easier. When Macintosh came out, Apple brought advertisements at the Super Bowl that did very well. The Mac, in contrast, didn't sell well. Due to its lack of expansion slots and its minimal memory, the company couldn't afford to get a 3rd strike. Sculley made an executive decision to remove Jobs from the head of the Macintosh division, to becoming the "global visionary". In Jobs eyes, quoted by Steve Jobs, "He was thirty years old, a millionaire, and a failure at the company he co-founded. He didn't know what to do" (pg 142-Quote 4).]]> 2021-05-01 20:08:30 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481343792 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481496092 Steve Jobs left Apple company in September 1985. Jobs still wanted to pursue his passion and vision, so he invested in 2 companies. The first one was a new computer company called, NeXT, and the second is a company called, Pixar. NeXT came out with a new computer in 1987. The software of the NeXT is remarkable, but the computer couldn't compare to their competitors. Pixar animations was soon gonna come out with an animation called, Toy Story. Could this animation save these 2 companies?]]> 2021-05-01 23:16:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481496092 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481515114 During the time away from Apple, Steve spent time with family. Steve had many girlfriends, but only one, was married to him. Laurene Powell attended one of Jobs' speaking at the Stanford Business School. Talking for a while, Jobs took a liking to her. Jobs asked Powell to dinner and she soon became his girlfriend. Jobs eventually proposed to Powell and had a baby named Reed Paul Jobs. Jobs, Powell, Reed, and Lisa, who is the first child of Jobs lived together. Shortly after, Jobs's adoptive mother got lung cancer and passed away. Paul Jobs, Steve's father passed away in March 1933. When Jobs was asked what he wanted to pass on to his children after the death of his father, he commented, "Try to be as good a father to them as my father was to me. I think about that everyday of my life" (pg 173-Quote 5).]]> 2021-05-01 23:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481515114 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481575934 2 years into working on the animation of Toy Story, the president of Walt Disney animation, hated the personality of Woody, the main character. Ordering to rewrite the script. Finally in 1995, Disney agreed to premiere the film during the holiday season. Jobs arranged to sell the shares of Toy Story after the movie opened. It would be very risky for the company to do so. But in the end, it played out well and the movie turned into a success. Profiting $29 million its first weekend. Jobs helped make and grow the company into what we know today.  ]]> 2021-05-02 01:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481575934 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481594216 Toy Story - The trailer of Toy story (1995) by Pixar]]> 2021-05-02 01:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481594216 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481603634 Apple was not doing so well in 1996. According to Jobs, "In 1996, Apple needed help. It had too many of some products and not enough of others - and worse, some of its new laptops occasionally burst into flames because of faulty batteries" (pg 190). Apple agreed to buy NeXT for financial aid and the software. Jobs was now the head executive of Apple and the "iCEO". He asked his frenemy, Bill Gates, to help and invest into Apple. With the help of Microsoft, Apple was preparing 4 new Apple products for its consumers.]]> 2021-05-02 01:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481603634 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481617625 Apple came up with a new product called the iMac. In the first 6 weeks the product went on sale, it sold 300,000 iMacs. Apple's stock price rose, and tripled the original amount. During the process of making this machine, Jobs didn't make a single dollar. Ultimately, after 2 and half years of continuous work from Jobs, the Apple board granted him a jet and 20 million shares of stock. ]]> 2021-05-02 02:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481617625 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481649675 When Steve was old enough to go to college, he attended Reed college. This college was known for its free spiritual and creative knowledge. Since Steve's parents could only afford one semester of college. Steve shortly dropped out of college. Because he wasn't paying for a dorm, he slept on the floor of friends' room or found empty rooms. Among other things, he dropped into Calligraphy class and the dean allowed him to hang around and attend class. When the first year ended, Steve went back to his parents' house.]]> 2021-05-02 03:10:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481649675 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481652575 Jobs' on and off girlfriend from high school, Breanne, got pregnant. Jobs refused to believe that it is his child even though DNA testing proved it. When the baby was born, the daughter was named Lisa. He was too busy on his other baby, Apple, to even take care of the baby. So Breanne took care of the child all by herself. But Jobs did dedicate one of his project to the child. Jobs was the leader of a project named Lisa. Unfortunately, the project failed, but the company grew with Woz's improved versions of the Apple II computers. Shortly, with the success of Apple, Woz left the company.]]> 2021-05-02 03:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481652575 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481678132 Since music was overtaking the industry, Jobs had an idea. Apple couldn't miss revolutionizing music. Introducing the iPod on October 23, 2001. The idea was impressive but the iMac was just better. Making a better change, Jobs recommended that selling individual songs for 99 cents instead of buying the full album would incite the buyers. Opening the iTunes software/iPod player/iTunes store trio captured the consumers eyes. Successful as: "By April 2004, it had sold one hundred million songs from the iTunes store - and less than two years later, it celebrated its billionth download" (pg 237-Quote 6).]]> 2021-05-02 03:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1481678132 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1483055202 Jobs' prospect of death kept him focused on what was most important to him, making the most of each day. In the late 1990s, when Jobs was saving Apple and going back and forth on Pixar, he developed kidney stones. His doctor also found a tumor on his pancreas, expecting him to only live 3-6 months. But later that day, the doctors found out that he had a very rare kind of pancreatic cancer, one that could be treated with a surgery. He refused the surgery for 9 months. Eventually, he got the surgery done and got somewhat better. Through this experience, Jobs learned that: "Your time is limited, so don't waste living someone else's life... And the most important... have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become" (pg 251-Quote 7).]]> 2021-05-02 20:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1483055202 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1483093322 With everyone using a stylus to write on the screen, Jobs wanted more. The Apple team was already working on expanding touch screen and Jobs thought that he could make a phone out of it. He partnered with a company called Motorola, who produced popular phones called, Razr. Together, the companies came out with Motorola ROKR, which Jobs introduced in 2005. But the product was a flop, considering it was ugly and awkward to use. ]]> 2021-05-02 20:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1483093322 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1483103607 After the success of Toy Story, Jobs negotiated to split the profit between Pixar and Disney equally from Pixar's next several films. But Disney still owned the rights to the character. Jobs wanted a better deal. He threaten to take Pixar's business somewhere else. But in 2005, the successor, Robert Iger, had a different view. When Iger was at the Hong Kong Disney parade, he realized that all the characters were Pixar's, not Disney's. Ultimately, Disney agreed to buy Pixar for $7.6 billion in 2006. "A Toy Story 3 would be made, but they would tell the story themselves, the way they wanted it told" (pg 258-Quote 8). ]]> 2021-05-02 21:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1483103607 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1483252756 Jobs' main priority was still Apple. Trying to pull a product together called, iPhone, was tougher than expected. Jobs specifically went to look for a glass for the phone that was tough. With Jobs' nick pickiness, every little detail that was changed, had to be redone. At the January Macworld event, Jobs announce the product, combing the best iPod, a great cell phone, and "the internet in your pocket". In late June 2007, customers lined up to pay from $499 to $599 for an iPhone. "It is not that he invents technologies, he refines existing ones," wrote New York Times reporter John Markoff (pg 261-Quote 9). Changing their company name to Apple Inc.]]> 2021-05-02 23:09:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1483252756 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1483302268 Jobs announces the first ever iPhone at the January Macworld event]]> 2021-05-02 23:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1483302268 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1483313301 In 2008, Jobs' health began to deteriorate and decline. The cancer had relapse and has spread through his liver and throughout his body. His eating habits began to make him lose weight. In January 2009, Jobs was placed on the liver transplant waiting list in California and Tennessee. He got the liver transplant successfully transplanted in Tennessee. Although his liver got transplanted, cancer cells already reached other spots in the body. Jobs resigned as chief executive of Apple and gave the CEO position to Tim Cook. Jobs read a letter he composed for the directors of Apple: "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, the day has come" (pg 280-Quote 10). Jobs sadly passed away on October 5, 2011. ]]> 2021-05-03 00:00:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1483313301 jiangbec000 https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1483390355 Jobs, still in his prime years as a businessman, left so much unfinished. Jobs wasn't the creator of the personal computer, but he was the face and voice of the revolution. If he didn't love what he did or wasn't satisfied with the work, he redid it again and again. He had become phenomenally wealthy, worth about $7 billion, according to Forbes magazine. Stated in his Stanford speech: "He followed his heart. He didn't settle for okay" (pg 287-Quote 11).]]> 2021-05-03 00:41:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jiangbec000/c1woou4tzput3q65/wish/1483390355