Steve Jobs The Man Who Thought Different Book Report

A. Attention Getter: How many people in this room own or have owned an IPod, IPhone, or IPad? Isn’t astounding how one man’s vision and innovation gave us all devices that have made the world today more connected than it’s ever been? Devices we NOW can’t imagine leaving behind when we walk out the front door in the morning. Whether it’s listening to music in your bedroom, reading the news on the train ride to work, checking your email at home or even sitting in a waiting room watching Netflix. It’s hard to deny the influence and impact that Steve Jobs has had on modern culture.

This semester, I am reading Steve Jobs: The Man WHo Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal. This book goes through the life story of Steve Jobs, Co-founder of Apple. A main focus of this book is that Steve thought very weirdly. Mike Scott says in the book, "He likes to fly around like a hummingbird at ninety miles per hour." (Blumenthal 81) When Jobs walked into the Atari offices with the intent to get hired, he refused to leave until he was, and it worked. Steve Jobs thought and worked in a way that would be extremely odd to most people, but it worked wonders for him. In high school, Steve Jobs made friends with a man named Steve Wozniak. Wozniak was also very much into technology, working at Hewlett-Packard

The ever changing world of entrepreneurs seems to be advancing more and more each day. Although this unique and highly advanced field is home to many great entrepreneurs, one in particular has made a great impact in our world today, Steve Jobs. It is for this reason that I have decided to make Steve Jobs my topic of choice. Jobs was a creatively advanced individual from San Francisco, California who had a sea of ideas that would soon come to make a worldwide impact in society. Jobs had many talents in the technological world, from inventing new electronics to running a film company, but the one which brought his hard work to light was his creation and collaboration with the Apple Company. Since the birth of this booming company, almost everyone has been head-over-heels for

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.

The aim of this assignment is to give a brief analysis and description of the life and work of Steve Wozniak and how his work on electronic devices such as the Apple II and the Macintosh computer have contributed to society and have changed and developed the world for good. To conclude, he made a significant impact on society during the late years of the 20th century, the early years of the 21st century and the present days.

Steve Jobs was always a visionary. Born in San Francisco and raised in what is now Silico Valley, Steve Jobs saw the vision of personal computers before anyone else. He and Steve Wozniak created Apple Computer at a time when computers were huge monstrosities that required large floor space. Steve Jobs saw what others did not and set about to change the world and he did just that. In 1977, Jobs raised enough financial backing, production methods and product awareness to take Apple Computers where no computer had ever been before. Into people’s homes. By 1983 Apple Computers was on Forbes 500 and had hired John Sculley (Former PepsiCo President) to the company’s CEO and teach Steve Jobs how

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).

Steve Jobs was an entrepreneur, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. As the CEO of the company, Jobs covered the development of the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and on the services side the company’s Apple Retail Stores, iTunes store, and the App store. The success of these products under Jobs provided stable years of financial return, and propelled Apple to become the world’s most valuable publically traded company. The reinvigoration of the company is regarded by commentators as one of the greatest turnarounds in business history (Gallo, 2011).

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple Computer Inc. in 1976, introducing the first apple personal computer that was mass produced. Throughout the years apple has attained great heights and success in the computer and technological arena. The company has had a competitive advantage in the creation and marketing of the iPod, iPhone, and various other personal media devices including the apple personal computer. This paper will address the following:

Steve jobs was an innovative mastermind with visions that helped change the world. His mission statement simple yet sophisticated, “To make a contribution to the world by making tools for the mind that advance humankind” (Jobs, 1980). His obsessiveness, focus and passion for creativity has been turned into distinct procedures that allows Apple to deliver a steady line of products - with or without him.

[Attention getter] How many of you in this class has owned any Apple Company products? Just as I thought there are the majority of people who have at least one Apple product. People like using Apple products for its privacy of information, reliability, ease of use and amazing design. In the past 14 years, Apple has dominated the market in the technology world with consistently designing the innovative and modern technologies & ideas such as IPod, IPad, ITunes, and MacBook. We can credit one man for all this remarkable ideas, Steve Jobs, who founded the company in his parent’s small garage in 1976. Today, I am going to talk about the legendary Steve Jobs which has huge impact on shaping the modern technological world with his outstanding idea and vision.

Given the task of conceptualizing a man who truly changed the realm of technology as we know it today, my mind secludes one person. That person is Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer, now known simply as Apple. For this rhetorical analysis, I will be using three biographies/profiles about Jobs including “The Real Genius of Steve Jobs” by Malcolm Gladwell with The New Yorker (June 19, 2017), “Jobs’ Biography; Thoughts on Life, Death, and Apple” from NPR (October 25, 2011), and “Steve Jobs” from Biography.com (April 28, 2017). With precise attention to the audience, purpose, and tone, all three of these profiles vividly explain and represent Jobs as the truly exceptional man that he was.

Because of his innovative ideas and perseverance to make his dreams a reality, many people believe “.... [Steve Jobs] thus belongs in the pantheon of America’s great innovators, along with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Walt Disney. None of these men [were] a saint, but long after their personalities are forgotten, history will remember how they applied imagination to technology and business” (Isaacson, Walter). Steve Jobs never colored inside the lines, and was able to run very successful businesses and invent technology that is used everywhere. Although he was known as a troublemaker, he used creativity to overcome obstacles and make positive changes across the world.

With his recent passing and the release of his biography, other leaders have gotten a chance to take a closer look at how Steve Jobs lived, thought, and ran his company. It’s an interesting opportunity to look at the inner workings of one of the tech world’s most private men.

This article present the story of Steve Jobs and it’s Apple company through two aspects.