Steve Gaines

Steve Jobs was an innovative mastermind with visions that helped change the world. He co-founded Apple inc. which is a well-known billion dollar company, and also invented products so popular, almost anyone you ask owns a product of his. In order to understand why Steve Jobs is an american cultural icon, one needs to have a description of his background and a critical analysis of his moral behavior. Born on the 24th of February, 1955, Jobs was born. Jobs biological parents were graduates of Wisconsin

companies in the world. The success of Apple Inc. stems from the innovation and visions of co-founder and entrepreneur, Steve Jobs, the excellence of the stylish, user-friendly products, and the ability to create innovative products that consumer’s desire. The development of Apple Inc. came during the unstable economic times of the 1970’s. Best friends and college dropouts, Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak pooled their electronic and business

When purchasing a personal computer, buyers used to grapple with the decision: a Macintosh from Apple Computer or a Microsoft-based PC? Microsoft effectively won that operating system debate years ago and claims more than 90% of the PC operating system market. But in the push to legally sell digital music, Apple and Microsoft, and their incompatible file formats, are at it again. Consumers are in the position of having to choose as hardware makers line up behind either Microsoft or Apple's

conformity than anything else. They feel that they must influence the behaviors and beliefs of others. They strongly believe that one must always follow rules or laws, or any standards that are socially accepted. On the other hand Mr. Keating and Steve Jobs believe that people should have a voice for themselves. They encourage diversity and welcome change which provides a healthy atmosphere for people. “Seize The Day” really says it all in this

argued that our education system does nothing to promote entrepreneurship either. With its emphasis on conformity and "thinking inside the box", it arguably stifles creativity. It is interesting to note that people like Richard Branson, Alan Sugar and Steve Jobs didn't finish higher education, and Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard. I'm not saying

Apple is referred to as the brand of innovation. It is known as a leading innovator which uses its brand name, friendly interface and it design to reinvent and grow product into new or existing market. They created the first smartphone back in 2007 and it was seen as the best information system created since the mobile phone. There are many lessons that we learned from apple business model. The first one is that Apple is no longer a product business but it is more about a platform business even though

tremendous success in developing the concept of a smart phone. One might wonder, exactly, how did the success of the iPhone first begin? “Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976. The first iPhone was announced on January 9, 2007 at the MacWorld convection in San Francisco, California. In the late 1970’s, Steve Jobs alongside co-founder Steven Wozniak’s introduced the first Apple computer.”1 In review of all of Apple’s failures and success, the company continued

world of Steve Jobs. Mr. Jobs was worth slightly over million dollars at the age of 23. By the time he was 24 years old he was worth just over $10 million and by the time he reached the age of 25 was worth well over $100 million dollars. A staggering difference in just a three-year period (Denning, 2011). In the interview that was given to Robert Cringely in 1995 for a show that was going to air on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) entitled Triumph of the Nerds (Denning, 2011) Steve Jobs tells

studio that was assigned to our group was Pixar Animation Studios, has been owned by the conglomerate The Walt Disney Company since 2006, following the purchase of the studios for $7.4 billion dollars. Pixar was founded on February 3rd, 1986 when Steve Jobs purchased the computer animation division “from Lucasfilms for $5 million,” as stated by Jillian D’Onfro [quote from business insider] dollars after he was fired from Apple. Jobs later renamed the computer animation division that he purchased

all be leaders. Well for the first 30 years of Steve Job’s life, many of those closest to him would say he was none of the above. In fact it was this time in his life that mattered the most. Since the beginning of birth, every event that occurs leads up for a reason and it’s what you do with those events that help shape the leader you are to become. In Steve Jobs case the outcome of events in his life is what made him such a task-orientated leader. Steve Jobs was feared by many and envied by few, yet