Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, February 24 1955 and died in Palo Alto, California, October 5 2011, he was a businessman and business magnate of thecomputer industry and of the American entertainment industry. He was the co-founder and executive chairman of Apple Inc and maximum individual shareholder of the Walt Disney Company.
Founded Apple in 1976together with a boyhood friend, Steve Wozniak, in the garage of his home. Buoyed by the success of your Apple II Jobs obtained a large public relevance, cover of Time in 1982. Counted 26 years and wasalready millionaire thanks to the successful IPO of the company at the end of the previous year. The decade of the 80 marked the entry of powerful competitors in the market for personal computers,which originated the first business difficulties.
During the years 90 transformed a subsidiary company acquired to Lucasfilm in Pixar, that revolutionized the industry of animation with the release ofToy Story. The integration of this company in Disney, of which he was supplying, would become to jobs in the largest individual shareholder of the entertainment giant.
In its second stage in Apple,also change the business model for the music industry: approved the launch of the iPod in 2001, and in 2003 the online store of music from iTunes, that in seven years it sold more than 10,000 millionsof songs and domino completely the business of music online, at a price of US$0.99 per song downloaded. Already in 2009 achieved hogging the 25 percent of the sale of music in the United States, andis the largest music store by sales volume of the history. According to the register of patents in the United States, 317 patents of jobs in the name of Apple.
Steve Jobs is a person who made a bigpart of the evolution in what is the computation, with the creation of the model "MAC" whether a laptop or desktop, making you competition to the revolution in Windows operating systems; but without...