In 1975, Steve Jobs teamed up with Steve Wozniak to create the first Apple Computer, launching a technological revolution creating need for all types of computer technology. However, the most important type of computer tech is software; software allows for the user interface, operating system, applications, and gives the computer the ability to function. In 1998, when Varchasivi Shankar created the company, V2SOFT, he set out to create software for computers everywhere. Surrounded by a family of business, Mr. Shankar grew up in India. Growing up, he watched his grandfather control and grow his business and knew that’s what he wanted to do as well. He decided that it would be smarter to have a business in America and his journey began when he traveled to the United States. Varchasivi Shankar is heroic because he has completed the three steps in the hero’s journey: the departure, the initiation, and the return. …show more content…
Shankar’s journey because he learned what journey he wanted to embark on. Mr. Shankar came from a middle class family, and coming from a middle class, “[he] always felt that [he] did not have enough. [He] always saw all the rich kids pulling around in fancy cars and always felt one day, he would get this too.” These wishes produced a desire in Mr. Shankar causing him to build himself a better life; this was his Call to Adventure. Varchasivi Shankar needed to go to college to be qualified to be a C.E.O. of a business. His Meeting with the Mentor transpired when his parents gave him money to attend the University of Mysore for four years from 1986-1990. After college, he was ready to depart to the United
The Steve Jobs biography “Steve Jobs the Man Who Thought Different” provides a glimpse into the past and the development of current technology. Although at some points did this book fail to capture my attention, overall I came to the conclusion that it did help me learn a lot about the Apple Industry and how it came to be. Because of this I would recommend this book to a friend. The author’s unique way of reviewing Steve Jobs’s life and his impact made on society, along with his associates who helped him make it to where he was helped to build my interest in the book. Although, it did fail to capture my attention because of the, what I felt, extensive and repetitive descriptions of each situation Jobs found himself in throughout his life. By
When the first developed was Macintosh, Jobs to visit near Seattle gates office. Microsoft wrote some applications for Apple II , including one called Multiplan spreadsheet program, jobs want to stimulate gates and his company, for the upcoming Macintosh computer do more. Sitting in the Gates meeting rooms, jobs for public computer made a tempting perspective, friendly interface, this show is in a California factory automation has millions of production. He in the California suction silicon components and cultivate complete dream factory lead to Microsoft team Macintosh computer program code "sand". They even put engineering reverse to a acronym, "Steve 's amazing new devices." But in the end they twin and no successful cooperation.
Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating plunge that left him not only out of Apple, but out of the computer-making business entirely.The authors examine the takeover and Jobs’s reinvention of the company with the popular iMac and his transformation of the industry with the revolutionary iPod. iCon is must reading for anyone who wants to understand how the modern digital age has been formed, shaped, and refined by the most influential figure of the
The world today has a plethora of technology that surrounds all the city. From the huge electronic billboards by the highway to the small phone in someone’s hand. In some way, technology has affected someone in either a positive or negative way. It has become a big resource to use technology in today’s society. One of the biggest contribution to the technology world is Steve Jobs, one of the innovators from Apple inc.
Back in 1970s, computers were very complex, had many chips, and hard to come by. This all changed in 1975, when Wozniak tested the Apple I’s prototype. This computer had less chips than other leading brands and was able to, for the first time in history, display a few letters on a screen. His acquaintance, Steve Jobs, persuaded him to sell it, and within the next year, the
Steve Jobs is solely responsible for the rapid development in the technology world. Many individuals have has had the same substantial impact that Steve has had throughout the years. This paper that I will be writing with present Steve’s childhood, career, adulthood, what he made before he died, and his death.
This essay explores the state of the computer world as Kidder describes it to the state of the computer industry, bearing in mind that the state of the computer industries at both points in time should be seen as a single frame pulled from a video rather than a single photograph. Kidder's book, which was published in 1981, focuses on two different aspects of the computer industry that can be compared and contrasted to the state of the industry today. While the most obvious difference is that between the level of technology that was considered to be cutting edge at the time, equally interesting is the way in which computer development teams create and
Do you know who made the world’s top selling phone?Even though Steve Jobs is not currently alive , his leadership and legacy created Apple and he didn 't give up in his technology. I explain Steve Jobs’s early life, who he is,his regretted decision, and his personality.
Bill Gates is very well known, not just for how smart he is but for his creations. At the age of thirteen he began to be interested in computers and programming them. His family encouraged him to be competitive and strive for the best. So he did everything in his power to be the best that he could be. He was so advanced for his age, in school he was bored because he wasn’t being challenged enough. His parents took him out of public school and enrolled him into Lakeside School in Seattle, his birthplace. He did very well in all his subjects, especially math and science. But it was this school that made Bill even more intrigued with computers. A computer company offered computer time for students in his school, and this is where he spent most of his free time. He also met his friend Paul Allen who was two years older and who later became his business partner there. Paul was broader than Bill, who was very thin, and he had short brown hair with blue eyes. They both spent time together working on new programs. ”He wrote a tic-tac-toe program in BASIC computer language that allowed users to play against the computer” (Bill Gates Bio). Though they were good friends, they often argued, which resulted in them both being kicked out of the computer lab repeatedly. But that didn’t stop them. “In 1970, Bill Gates went into business with Paul Allen. They developed "Traf-o-Data," a
I chose to write about Mr. Gates because he is a programming genius, and through his programming skills, and competitive business skills, in just 25 years, he built a two-man operation into a multibillion-dollar company. He accomplished this achievement by taking current technology and adapting it to a specific market. He conquered the market
An entrepreneur is a business owner or manager who is prepared to take risks in order to exploit new business opportunities. Entrepreneurs invest in new or original projects in the hope of making a large profit before anyone else gets a chance. They may not be the creators of the product or service they are seeking to exploit, but they recognize it’s potential. In the case of Apple, Steve Wozniak was the creator of the products, but Steve Jobs was the entrepreneur who saw its potential. In 1976, Stanford University, Palo Alto’s internationally renowned education and research center, was the meeting place of group of called the Computer Homebrew Club. Steve Wozniak was a leading member of this club. Not far away, there was something potentially even more: the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The Xerox Company, famous for its photocopiers, set up PARC in 1971 as a think tank. It involved the best computer brains from all over the country, people who were determined to find ways to make computers easier and friendlier to use. In March 1976, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs finished amassing a computer circuit board in a garage fitting to Job’s parents. The board had no case, screen on keyboard. It was planned for technically-minded computer hobbyists who wanted to collect their own machines. Jobs influenced Wozniak that other enthusiastic would be ready to buy similar circuit boards. Wozniak wild his job with Hewlett-Packard and helped set up a company to produce and sell
The 1980s was an exciting time in the history of computer science. A variety of companies were competing in the computer market, including Apple, IBM and Microsoft. At the time, Apple owned 20% of the PC market, but the direction of the company went downhill after Steve Jobs was forced out of the company in 1985 over the commercial failure of the Apple Macintosh PC (Entrepreneur, 2012). The company had made enough mistakes that computer retailers had lost all faith in Apple (Kroenke, 2014). The problem was only compounded by the fact that Apple hired on a long series of CEOs who failed to manage the company properly (Kroenke, 2014). In 1996, Steve Jobs returned to Apple with the help of Gil Amelio, a company board member who adamantly believed Jobs was the “only one…who [could] rally the Apple troops, [the] only one…who [could] straighten out the company”(Hormby, 2006).
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.
Think different in the world of technology and bring greater revenue. This case study focuses on the mass enterprising activities of a world’s leading consumer electronics and software company, i.e. Apple Inc. and how, through its technologically advanced abilities and electronic sharpness, it has propelled and introduced the world to a essentially new era of multimedia innovation. Apple Inc. founded a brand new method in which microchip technology was to be created and used for industrial, institutional and commercial usage. Which is due in enormous part through the great talent of Steve Jobs that this esoteric technology managed to excel most proportions with regards to the open market.
Co-founded by Steve Jobs in 1976, the company was named under Apple Computers Inc. and its initial product Apple IIe gained relative popularity and success. The release of the Macintosh revolutionized the computer experience with a graphical user interfere and a pointer devise called the ‘mouse’ was launched in the same year. The company went public in 1980 resulting in its owners gaining immediate wealth. However, its company’s