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Steven Paul Jobs (; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American business magnate, industrial designer, investor, and media proprietor. He was the chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and co-founder of Apple Inc.; the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT. Jobs is widely recognized as a pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, along with his early business partner and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, and put up for adoption. He was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Reed College in 1972 before dropping out that same year, and traveled through India in 1974 seeking enlightenment and studying Zen Buddhism.
Jobs and Wozniak co-founded Apple in 1976 to sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. Together the duo gained fame and wealth a year later with the Apple II, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers. Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto in 1979, which was mouse-driven and had a graphical user interface (GUI). This led to the development of the unsuccessful Apple Lisa in 1983, followed by the breakthrough Macintosh in 1984, the first mass-produced computer with a GUI. The Macintosh introduced the desktop publishing industry in 1985 with the addition of the Apple LaserWriter, the first laser printer to feature vector graphics. Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985 after a long power struggle with the company's board and its then-CEO John Sculley. That same year, Jobs took a few Apple employees with him to found NeXT, a computer platform development company that specialized in computers for higher-education and business markets. In addition, he helped to develop the visual effects industry when he funded the computer graphics division of George Lucas's Lucasfilm in 1986. The new company was Pixar, which produced the first 3D computer animated feature film Toy Story (1995), and went on to become a major animation studio, producing over 20 films since then.
Jobs became CEO of Apple in 1997, following his company's acquisition of NeXT. He was largely responsible for helping revive Apple, which had been on the verge of bankruptcy. He worked closely with designer Jony Ive to develop a line of products that had larger cultural ramifications, beginning in 1997 with the "Think different" advertising campaign and leading to the iMac, iTunes, iTunes Store, Apple Store, iPod, iPhone, App Store, and the iPad. In 2001, the original Mac OS was replaced with the completely new Mac OS X (now known as macOS), based on NeXT's NeXTSTEP platform, giving the OS a modern Unix-based foundation for the first time. Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in 2003. He died of respiratory arrest related to the tumor at age 56 on October 5, 2011.

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  1. S

    Mates rate jobs always seem to go wrong.

    I'm sure we've all been there before and it will happen again. Simple boiler service, switched on the heating just to get rid of some heat while doing the service, all went well, packed up. Mate rate charge and on my merry way. Get a call this evening , heatings on and his house is 37deg...
  2. B

    small jobs prices??

    Hi everyone just wanted to know what you guys and girls charge for small basic jobs like change siphon in c/c toilet unblock a toilet Fit outside tap change ball valve Or any other small jobs i missed thanks and its more the labour side not parts thanks
  3. B

    Keeping Tabs of Jobs

    What software do you guys use when keeping tabs on Gas Safe certs and jobs carried out?
  4. kris

    How far to jobs

    Hi guys just curious to see on average how far you all travel to your jobs ,, i know thats a wide answer but just an average ,
  5. T

    Pricing Jobs

    Hello fellow drunks As most of you know im just starting up on my adventure in the big world of running a business, the skills side to completing the job aint a problem, but the business side is all new and im picking it up with alot of help Question is, on pricing a job up what should i take...
  6. P

    Advice for gas jobs

    I have recently passed me ACS gas qualifications and registered with gas safe. I am trying to get a role with British gas but it seems the best way in is through sub contracting however British gas have informed me that I also need all my own equipment so need to purchase a gas analyser , have...
  7. R

    a quote for the jobs you dont want.

    lol.......
  8. W

    Getting round to doing your own jobs

    Had an unvented cylinder standing in the utility room since before Christmas. Finally got nagged enough from the gf to fit it before her parents visit next week. Same thing happened in the autumn for fitting an extra radiator in the living room - it sat in the garage until the gf nagged enough...
  9. B

    Pricing jobs plus VAT

    When I get quotes for work to be done, nothing irritates me more than tradesmen saying something like "£80 plus vat". I'd rather be told the job will cost £100. I've even turned down jobs for this reason. just wondering if majority of customers are turds like me and whether or not you mention...
  10. T

    LPG jobs

    Hi all I've had my Lpg about a year now but only used it a bit for a few services, I've been asked to quote a combi install and was wondering do you guys do it the same price as natrual gas or put more on the job to cover the extra qualifications? thanks.
  11. W

    Possibly a good tip for nightmate toilet jobs

    Specifically the ones where they leak between pan and cistern despite your best plumbers-mate-silicone-or-variety-of-doughnut efforts. Take an inch and a quarter solvent elbow and glue a little bit of pipe into one end. Wrap that with ptfe and push it in the end of the syphon/drop valve thread...
  12. S

    Future jobs

    Hi all i need to start organising future / annual work. Just trying to see how guys schedule annual boiler service / gas safety checks etc Do you use a diary ? Filing system ? Or electronically ? Thanks
  13. C

    Trainee Plumber Required Trainee jobs

    Lev3 6129 qualified need work for experience anything considered herts or London area
  14. C

    Trainee Plumber Required Trainee jobs

    Level3 6129 qualified desperate for work, hard working, high standards, ready for anything! Herts/London area
  15. C

    Trainee jobs

    Hello, im qualified to level3 6129 and looking for work desperately, have no on the job experience so proving very difficult! any help would be very welcome, thanks.
  16. P

    Paying in CASH jobs to bank account

    hi guys im new to self employment and was wondering how you guys "declare" jobs you have done paid in cash. Whats the process do you still invoice customer? thanks guys
  17. L

    Boiler part replacement jobs

    Just seen a job advertised offering £140 a day to replace a part behind the heat exchanger for a leading boiler manufacturer 3 of these a day , just wondering if anyone on here is doing or has done this or similar work ?
  18. cr0ft

    Why I hate small jobs in a nutshell

    Phone rings - 'Hi, can you come and replace our bath taps, we want a bath/shower mixer thingy. We also have a leak under our kitchen sink. How much will it be?' Me - 'Usually £60 plus VAT for the first hour which is normally enough to sort both of those out.' I get there with the apprentice...
  19. SimonG

    Three Little Jobs

    Not happy that I had to work saturday, but it is my overspill day. First job was to replace a knackered frost stat and re pressurise the expansion vessel. No problems and onto my next. New mira sport installed and not working properly. Checked it all over and cleaned filter and still no good...
  20. A

    Jobs in Glasgow

    I'm out of work again, does anyone know if any work available for plumbing without gas quals. I'm willing to pretty much do anything, the only jobs I can see are in Aberdeen which I dont mind if I can get digs that aren't too expensive. Anyone ?. Al.
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