文档介绍：乔布斯的创业生涯-精品
Young Steven Jobs
Born on February 24th, 1955 in San Francisco, California
Put up for adoption a weekl Looking Up (Cont.)
NeXT STEP software was being turned into Mac OS X
Under Jobs’ guidance the company increased sales
Introduced the iMac and other new products
Still Looking Up (Cont.)
Jobs held the title of ICEO
Very influential impact on the Apple company
By the year 2000, he created even greater advances in new technology
The New Beginning
In early 2000, Pixar leads animated film industry
Later that month,
Jobs announced his
return to the CEO
position
Insisted on keeping his $1 annual salary
The New Beginning (Cont.)
Although his salary was low, the company granted him ten million shares of Apple stock worth hundreds of millions
The New Beginning (Cont.)
First project as CEO was the G4 Cube
Was too expensive
and didn’t satisfy a
certain market
Lasted only twelve
months in Apple’s line-up
The New Beginning (Cont.)
The next step for Steve was his newest operating system, Mac OS X
The future of Apple
The New Beginning (Cont.)
Apple wanted software to sync up digital devices
Was turned down by most companies
Jobs took matters into his own hands and created iLife suite.
The New Beginning (Cont.)
In 2019, Jobs opened Apple retail stores so customers could:
Try out computers
Test software
Meet with salespeople
This was a large risk but he knew that people would want to buy them
Portable Audio Revolution
Less than a year after iTunes was released, Apple released the iPod
Originally only for Mac users
In July 2019, the new iPod was
available for Windows users as
well
Sales skyrocketed and 75% of MP3 players are iPods
Portable Audio Revolution (Cont.)
In eight weeks, five million songs were sold on iTunes
Took over 80% of the legal music downloading market
More Successful Changes
June 6th, 2019, Jobs announced switch from PowerPC chips to Intel chips.
This would conserve
energy on PowerBook
and iBook