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Steve Jobs once quoted “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations,” (brainyquote.com, 2009). Steve Jobs helped to create the company Apple, and created NeXT, but life was not easy for him, he had to strive for accuracy, and be very persistent throughout his life, but in the end he gave the world Macintosh computers and another brand of smart-phones. (Britannica School, 2015)
Steve Jobs faced many hardships throughout his life, but created amazing things and reached huge achievements. When he was young he was put up for adoption by his biological parents. The parents that were about to adopt him decided that they wanted a girl (Britannica …show more content…

Steve had a sister named Patti Jobs (Biography.com, 2015). It was hard for Steve not knowing his biological parents, but he used persistence and pushed through. Later on, Steve was sent to college, but dropped out after only 6 months. In fall of 1974 Steve started going to meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club, a group of young computer enthusiasts led by his friend Wozniak (Britannica School, 2015). Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started a tiny production line. In 1976 the group finally introduced the Apple 1 to the public, it was the first single-board computer with a built-in video interface and onboard read only memory (ROM), which made the machine able to load most other programs from an external source. Steve Jobs became the chairman of Apple in 1980. A huge power struggle broke out in Apple, and Steve Jobs resigned, and left Apple in September of 1985 (Britannica School, 2015). Steve quickly stood back up and formed the NeXT Corporation. NeXT rapidly grew, and in 1986 Steve …show more content…

He used almost all of them, but one of the big habits of mind was persistence. When he was just born, he was put up for adoption. He was eventually adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. It was hard for Steve, not knowing his real parents but he tried to put it out of his mind (Biography.com, 2015). Steve tried to stay happy throughout his life. After 6 months in college he decided to drop out. He worked with his friend Steve Wozniak and joined a computer club. Later on, they broke off and started to make the Apple 1. 2 years after the Apple 1 was published, they started working on the Apple 2, but they thought it wasn’t good enough and they strived for accuracy to make it better. Sadly, in 1985 Steve was forced to leave Apple, but he didn’t quit. He applied his past knowledge of computers to make a new company that would be another computer company. As he grew more successful he eventually bought Pixar, and actually helped in the production of Toy Story (Britannica School, 2015). Later on, he started made the iPhones and Macintosh

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