Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Steve Jobs



Steve Jobs was born on the 24th of February, 1955. He started creating the Apple computer at age 21 in the year 1974 with Wozniak. Steve and Wozniak started in the Jobs family garage, and funded their entrepreneurial venture after Jobs sold his Volkswagen bus and Wozniak sold his beloved scientific calculator

Jobs and Wozniak are credited with revolutionizing the computer industry by democratizing the technology and making the machines smaller, cheaper, intuitive, and accessible to everyday life.

The first model that they produce was the Apple I, which has earn $774,000. It was a success for them, and encouraging them to come out with a new model, the Apple II, three years later after the Apple I was introduce. The sales for the second model of Apple was much more profiting because it increase up to 700 percent, $139 million dollars. The Apple Computer become a publicly traded company with a market value of 1.2 billion on the first day of trading.

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