Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

        Steve jobs combined his marketing and innovation knowledge with his Steve Wozniak's computing ability to create Apple. Their goal was to make personal computing more user-friendly and create a brand

Bill Gates first took an interest in computer programming when he was 13 years old, while attending school. The school used funds from sales and donations and was able to purchase the students an ASR-33 Teletype terminal and computer time on a General Electric computer terminal. Bill, instantly intrigued, was able to get excused from his regular classes to work with the computer. Bill, then, gained his interest in computer programming. He was able to develop a program where the students could play the computer in a game of tic-tac-toe. This was the beginning of Bill Gates career (Bill Gates, 2011).

After ten years with Apple, Jobs left a gap between him and Apple when he purchased Pixar. Jobs came back to Apple after eleven years after selling Pixar to Disney for 7.4 billion dollars. By the time Jobs came back, Apple bought NeXT and hired Jobs as an advisor, but through the pure genius of Steve Jobs, the “nearly bankrupt Apple was transformed into one of the planet’s most valuable corporations” (Apple Founder Steve Jobs Dies). After Jobs’ comeback, everything about Apple became better. From new products such as the iTouch, ipod, iPhone, iPad, Jobs’ ideas rained down new products that Apple’s rivals just could not catch up. Although some people prefer the complex computers from Windows, most everyday people want a electronic device that we know how to function and control. Jobs was able to bring to the common people what they really needed with his simplicity in most of his products and his user-friendly applications. Jobs led Apple until August of 2011 when he stepped down from CEO seat of Apple, and six weeks later, passed away in Palo Alto, California, the city Apple was born.

Microsoft went on to develop Windows 95 through Windows XP. Steve Jobs went back to Apple in 1997 and came together with Bill Gates. At the unveiling of the news that Apple gave in to Microsoft, Steve Jobs told the world, "Thank you Bill. The world is a better place"(Booth, 34).

In 1988 when jobs announced the future computer, caused a excited. The second year began to sales, computer finally failed. The ability of jobs, move in media began to fail him, a series of things that companies get into trouble. Because of the presence of relatively small software running, so then, it has been difficult to attract customers. "Jobs was fired the board of directors, in 1996 the second back to apple.

I took a look back in history, I came across a couple of men that died on the same day. Both of these men have had a great impact on us all. They are responsible for changes that have happened in times of segregation, to a more current time surrounded by IPhones. Steve Jobs and Fred Shuttlesworth are responsible for these changes that have created the world as we know it today.

Jobs was a marketing genius. He knew how to build up exitement for the fans and his affection to secrecy made every revelation of a new Apple product a special event. Jobs always was the one to reveal new products and “More than any other personal computer, the Mac comes wrapped in hype,

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are intelligent innovative thinkers who have always new things to show and give to the world, and both of them are known as the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution in the modern age. These two entrepreneurs may both work in the field of technology, but they also have many differences to distinguish themselves from one another.

Bill Gates is one of the most visionary leaders of our time. He created in his mind the idea of the greatness of computerized systems and that vision even though far at that time transformed in our present. He foresaw that computers will be an essential part not only in future business but in the lives of Americans. His efforts and strategic planning delivered him the opportunities to develop different operating systems including Windows. Windows Software has been an essential key in his financial success because this software took the market by storm providing customers the opportunity to multitask and leave behind the systems that were operated only on a command based entry. His revenues after the expansion of his company has made him been ranked by Forbes as the richest man on earth for the last thirteen years. During the years he served as chairman of Microsoft he established new ways to deal efficiently with human resources issues; like for the hiring process he stated in the past that he prefers intelligence over experience in an employee because they are easier to train and to adapt to the world of Microsoft.

By the late 1970s the computing giant IBM had plans for marketing a personal computer for home use. They approached Microsoft to develop the standard operating system for their home computer models. Gates and Allen then went out and purchased for $50,000 an operating system called Q-Dos,

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple in California in 1976. Their mission was to introduce an easy to use computer to market, which led to a computing revolution and quickly became the industry leader by selling more than 100,000 Apple IIs in 1980. After IBM entered PC market, IBM PCs, which used Microsoft’s DOS (OS), gained more market share and became the new standard for the PC industry. At the same time, Apple introduced the Macintosh in 1984. However, Apple’s net income fell 62% due to the Mac’s slow processor speed and lack of software limited sales. In 1985, Steve Jobs was forced out and John Sculley took charge of the Mac. Under the direction of Sculley, Apple

In 1997, Steve Jobs returned to Apple as an advisory and with the purposes of reshaping the product line. The changes made by Jobs resulted in increased sales and $309 million in profits. Job changed the mindset of Apples management and development team. He encourage them to have the “think different” management style that promotes the development of products that are ahead of the technology and design curve, and a creative retail strategy. It is this strategy that would eventually make Apple the best-selling company in the PC industry.

The name Henry Ford is notorious in America, and is mostly related to Ford Motor Company and the assembly line, but his name means far more than that for most Americans that lived in his time period. Considered the Steve Jobs of his time, Henry helped advance the manufacturing industry and make products affordable to the masses. Henry Ford and Steve Jobs both changed the world by making their products affordable, increasing production of their items, and influencing future products.

With the recent passing of Steve Jobs, there has been an intense spotlight focused on both the man and the company he built. Most of the attention has rightfully been focused on Jobs’ passion and creativity, as well as the remarkable period of innovation he preside. As a symbolic leader, the man not only once saving the company from bankruptcy but also building up a well-known brand that had integrate with our daily life – Apple.

As Microsoft and the software industry grew, the computer hardware manufacturers no longer saw the opportunity to exploit Bill Gates= company, as they had done initially with BASIC, one of the first programs Microsoft