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THE BIRTH
Steven is born. Then he is adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs. -
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Steve Jobs life
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COLLEGE
Steve spends one semester at Reed College in Portland (Oregon), but he drops out after a semester. -
THE BEGGINING
Steve Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak start assembling computers in the Jobs' garage. They sell 200 units. Steve called them Apple I. -
APPLE II
The Apple II becomes the first mass-market personal computer. It´s the first computer to have colour interface. -
APPLE GOES PUBLIC
Apple goes public, raising $110 million in one of the biggest initial public offerings (IPO) to date. -
CLIMBING
Annual sales climb to $1 billion. -
MACINTOSH
Steve introduces the Macintosh. -
APPLE III
Apple III, Lisa and the Macintosh don´t have success. -
JOBS LEAVES APPLE
Steve leaves Apple due to differences with its president. Wozniak also resigns from Apple. -
NEXT INC.
Jobs founds Next Inc., a new computer company making high-end machines for universities. He also buys ILM from George Lucas for $10 million and changes the name to Pixar Animation Studios. -
IMAC
Jobs introduces Apple´s revolutionary iMac. -
FIRST COMPUTER
First Next computer goes on sale. -
APPLE- IBM ALLIANCE
Apple and IBM Corp. annonce an alliance to develop new PC microprocessors and software. Apple unveils PowerBook portable Macintoshes. -
AGREEMENT WITH DISNEY
Steve signs an agreement with Disney to produce films. Pixar´s “Toy Story”, the first commercial computer-animated feature, hits theaters and Pixar goes to Wall Street with an IPO that raises $140 million. -
APPLE BUYS NEXT
Apple buys Next Computer for $430 million. With this, Steve rejoins Apple as an adviser. -
JOBS APPLE´S CEO
Jobs is named CEO of Apple. -
IPOD
The first iPod goes on sale. -
ITUNES
Apple launches the iTunes music store with 200.000 songs at 99 cents each, giving people a convenient way to buy music legally online. It sells 1 million songs in the first week. -
IPOD EXPANSION
Apple expands the iPod line with the tiny Nano and an iPod that can play video. -
DISNEY BUYS PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS
Disney buys Pixar for $7,4 billion. Steve becomes Disney´s largest individual shareholder with 7% of the company. -
IPHONE
Apple releases its first smartphone, the iPhone -
IPAD
Steve unveils iPad, the much-anticipated Apple´s modern touch-screen tablet computer. Apple sells 15 million iPads in nine months. -
STEVE´S RESIGNATION
Steve resigns from Apple -
STEVE JOBS DEATH
Jobs dies after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
