Jobs Steve (Steve Jobs)

Stephen Paul Jobs, better known as Steve Jobs, is an American entrepreneur, co-founder and executive director of the American corporation Apple. He died on October 5, 2011.

Biography

Stephen Jobs was born in Mountain View, California (USA) on February 24, 1955. His childhood and youth passed there, in the foster family of Paul and Clara Jobs, who was given up for upbringing by his mother.

When Steve Jobs was 12 years old, on a childish whim and not without an early manifestation of teenage sass, he called William Hewlett, then president of Hewlett-Packard, at his home phone number. Then Jobs wanted to assemble an electric current frequency indicator for the school physics room and he needed some details. Hewlett chatted with Jobs for 20 minutes, agreed to send the necessary details and offered him a summer job at Hewlett-Packard, the company within whose walls the entire Silicon Valley industry was born.

At school, carried away by electronics and gravitating to communicate with older guys, Jobs meets Steve Wozniak his future colleague in the company. Apple Together with his good friend, he Steve Wozniak improved the fricker technique John Draper and designed the Blue Box, a device capable of reproducing signals at the frequencies necessary to "trick" the telephone system and make free calls. According to some reports, colleagues not only sold "blue boxes," but also had fun through international calls - in particular, they called the Pope on behalf of Henry Kissenger.

Subsequently, according to legend, on the basis of the same scheme, they built the first joint business. Wozniak made these devices during his time at Berkeley, and Jobs, as a high school student, was engaged in selling them.

After graduating from high school in 1972, Steve Jobs attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon. After the first semester, he was expelled of his own free will, but remained to live in the rooms of friends for about a year and a half. Then he got into calligraphy courses, which subsequently prompted him to equip the Mac OS system with scalable fonts. Steve then took a job at Atari.

1976: Apple starts

Stephen Jobs and Stephen Wozniak became the founders of Apple. Engaged in the production of computers of its own design, it was founded on April 1, 1976, and officially registered in early 1977.

The author of most of the developments was Stephen Wozniak, while Jobs acted as a marketer. It is believed that it was Jobs who convinced Wozniak to finalize the microcomputer scheme he invented, and thereby gave impetus to the creation of a new market for personal computers.

The first personal computer to be introduced by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak was the Apple I, priced at $666 66 cents. Subsequently, a new Apple II computer was created. The success of the Apple I and Apple II computer made Apple a key player in the personal computer market.

1978: Prototype Keyboard

Main article: Keyboard

1980: Stock offering on the stock exchange. Jobs is a multimillionaire

December 1980 saw the first public sale of the company's stock (IPO), making Steve Jobs a multi-millionaire.

1985: Dismissal from Apple

In 1985, Steve Jobs was fired from Apple.

1986: Pixar Company Purchase

In 1986, Steve bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm for $5 million . Although the estimated value of the company was $10 million, at that time George Lucas needed money to finance the filming of Star Wars.

Under Jobs' direction, Pixar has released films such as Toy Story and Monsters Corporation. In 2006, Jobs sold Pixar to Walt Disney for $7.4 billion for Disney shares. Jobs remained on Disney's board of directors and simultaneously became Disney's largest individual shareholder, taking a 7 percent stake in the studio at his disposal.

1987-1989: "Spells" That Helped Jobs Keep Apple From Dying

Steve Jobs was a master of "casting spells" that helped motivate Apple employees to work many hours long and that helped the company stay afloat in difficult times. This was told by Bill Gates in the weekly show of Farid Zakaria on CNN in early July 2019.

With his spells, he literally mesmerized people. But I myself was a wizard, albeit of a smaller rank, so his spell did not act on me, "Gates said.

He noted that he did not meet in life people as talented and motivated as Steve Jobs. As an example, he cited the late 1980s, when NeXT, then headed by Jobs, could not sell a single computer for a year. Despite this, the businessman still went further, and in 1997 Apple bought out NeXT.

Gates called the failed sales of NeXT computers "just nonsense," which did not prevent Jobs from "hypnotizing people."^[1]

According to Bill Gates, Jobs could make any "dying" company the most expensive in the world, and "he brought a number of incredibly positive things through his resilience."

Gates called the Apple co-founder's management style an example of what "you can't do at home."

1991: FBI investigates Jobs

In 1991, the FBI investigated Steve Jobs when Jobs was a candidate for adviser to US President George W. Bush, a senior export adviser. The report was published by the FBI in February 2012 after Jobs' death. The Export Council is a group of experts that advises the American president on international trade. In 2012, the council included, for example, representatives of companies such as Boeing, UPS, Verizon, Walt Disney and Xerox. In 1991, Jobs was just the head of NeXT, which he created after temporarily leaving Apple.

In a conversation with the FBI, Jobs admitted that he tried marijuana, hashish and the psychedelic drug LSD between 1970 and 1974. Also, a source in the department reports that in his youth Jobs was actively interested in mystical and eastern philosophy, which seriously influenced his worldview in the future. During the collection of the dossier on Jobs, the FBI involved an agency network throughout the country, conversations were held with dozens of people who knew him then. Moreover, the bureau collected data on both Jobs' business qualities and intentions, his relationship with investors, and the personal life of a businessman, for example, his first illegitimate daughter. The full FBI report on the 191st page can be downloaded here. 

Page from dossier started by FBI on Steve Jobs

1997: Return to Apple

• 1997 - Steve Jobs becomes interim chief executive of Apple, succeeding former chief executive Gil Amelio.

• 1998 - As interim chief executive of Apple, he closes several unprofitable projects such as Apple Newton, Cyberdog and OpenDoc. A new IMac computer was introduced. With the advent of the iMac, sales growth of Apple computers began to increase.

• 2000 - the word "temporary" disappeared from the name of Jobs' position, and the founder of Apple himself entered the Guinness Book of Records as the executive director with the most modest salary in the world (according to official documents, Jobs' salary at that time was $1 per year; subsequently, other corporate executives used a similar salary scheme). Steve Jobs received an award from Apple in the form of a Gulfstream jet worth $43.5 million with an agreement under which the company incurred all the costs of maintaining the aircraft.

2000: How Steve Jobs got a one-click online purchase patent from Amazon for a penny

In September 2018, Infinite Loop magazine, which covers events in Apple's corporate offices, told how Steve Jobs received a single-click online purchase patent from Amazon twenty years ago for a penny.

In 1999, Amazon, considered "Earth's largest bookstore" with few sightings of a future giant corporation, patented and implemented one-click online payments on its website. Then there were the first days of e-commerce, and people were still afraid to trust their credit card information with the Internet. One-click shopping technology automatically saved customers' payment information so they could make instant purchases.

This feature quickly appeared in Apple - already in 2000, the company used it in one of the earliest versions of its online store. At that time, according to the study, 27% of users did not buy online goods that were put in the basket, only because the purchase process required too much effort. By 2018, most online stores in the world offer quick checkout on the site, including one click on a button.

Licensing a patent and trademark Amazon.com "one-click purchases" will allow us to offer customers an even easier and faster way to buy online, "said Steve Jobs.

Infinite Loop magazine spoke about the behind-the-scenes story behind the decision made by Jobs after his triumphant return to Apple three years after he was thrown out of his own company. Mike Slade, Jobs' special assistant from 1999-2004, told the magazine that they were just sitting in the office discussing some kind of gadget, and Steve decided to buy it on Amazon. Jobs got excited about the convenience of the new one-click shopping technology, so he just called Amazon, said, "Hey, this is Steve Jobs" - and got a one-click online shopping patent license for a million dollars.

It was Jobs's classic decision-making technique. In a couple of years, he will again unexpectedly make one purchase on the phone that will change Apple's future, according to the biography "Steve Jobs," written by Walter Isaacson. Apple CEO Jon Rubinstein visited the Toshiba plant in February 2001, where he was shown several new 1.8-inch hard drives that the Japanese company could not find use. Rubinstein dialled Jobs, who was also in Tokyo, and said those discs would have been perfect for the MP3 player they were mulling back then. Isaacson wrote that Rubinstein met with Jobs at the hotel that evening, asked for a check of $10 million and received it immediately.

In September 2000, when Amazon's one-click online purchase patent was licensed, Apple's market capitalization was $8.4 billion against Amazon's $13.7 billion. In 2018, Apple and Amazon began to cost more than $1 trillion, and Apple conquered this milestone faster than the Internet giant.

As for the one-click payment system that helped develop both online retailers, the U.S. patent for the technology expired in September 2017. With the expiration of the patent, the field of use of the technology has leveled off, because large companies have long developed their own technologies for purchases in one click. Giants such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook have prepared almost all their pages on the Internet for online shopping technology in one click, and social networks are not far behind them.^[2]

2001: iPod Presentation

In 2001, Steve Jobs introduced the first iPod player. A few years later, the sale of the iPod became the company's main source of revenue. Under Jobs' leadership, Apple has significantly strengthened its position in the personal computer market.

2003: Detection of a rare form of cancer

2003 - The ITunes Store was created. Steve Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. S. Jobs is diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic tumor known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor.

2004: Successful removal of cancer tumor

August 2004 Jobs underwent surgery and the tumor was successfully removed. During the absence of S. Jobs, Apple was managed by Tim Cook, then the head of international sales.

• October 2004 S. Jobs first appears in public after the operation: he attends a press conference on the opening of a new Apple product store in California. After some time, S. Jobs said that "the disease made him understand: you need to live life to the fullest."

• 2005 - At WWDC 2005, Steve Jobs announced the transition to Intel.
• 2006 - Apple unveiled the first laptop powered by Intel processors.

2007: Presentation of the first iPhone smartphone

• 2007 - Apple introduced the Apple TV network multimedia player, on June 29, sales of the IPhone mobile phone began.

• 2008 - Apple unveiled a slim laptop called the MacBook Air.

• July 2008 There are comments in the press that the head of Apple has lost a lot of weight and this causes rumors about the recession of the disease. During a conference on Apple's financial results, company representatives answer recurring questions about the health of S. Jobs that this is a "private matter."

• September 2008 In response to his obituary, mistakenly published by Bloomberg, S. Jobs at one of the events organized by Apple quotes Mark Twain: "Rumors about my death are greatly exaggerated."

• December 2008 The head of Apple does not make a traditional speech at the Macworld Trade Conference, which causes new rumors about his illness.

2009: Liver transplant

January 2009 S. Jobs declares his intention to continue running the company, attributing the severe weight loss to hormonal imbalance. However, two weeks later, S. Jobs announces his departure on a six-month leave for health reasons. It took Jobs for a liver transplant and for a postoperative recovery course. The need for a liver transplant in Steve Jobs arose due to the side effect of drugs in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.

During his vacation, Jobs handed over Apple control to Tim Cook. Subsequently, T. Kuk will receive a bonus of $5 million for excellent leadership of the company during the absence of S. Jobs and other services to Apple.

• June 2009 S. Jobs returns after a liver transplant and reports from doctors that the prognosis for his health condition is excellent.

• Since January 17, 2011, Steve Jobs went on vacation for health reasons. Several blogs, citing Apple employees, reported that Jobs was hospitalized. Jobs himself notified the company's employees of his leave by sending them an email, according to a Businesswire recording. In it, Jobs writes that he himself made the corresponding decision.

The full text of the letter, given by Businesswire, looks like this:

"Command! At my request, the board of directors granted me medical leave and I will now be able to focus on my health. I remain president, and will continue to deal with the main strategic decisions of the company. I asked Tim Cook to be responsible for all of Apple's daily activities. I'm sure Tim and the rest of the senior leadership team will do an amazing job putting into action the plans we have for 2011. I love Apple very much and hope to come back as soon as I can. My family and I would deeply appreciate respect for our private lives. Steve. "

2011: Resigning

On August 24, 2011, Apple officially announced that its founder and CEO Steve Jobs had resigned as head of the corporation. On this day, Steve Jobs released an open letter addressed to "Apple management and the community."

The letter said: "I have always said that if the day ever comes when I can no longer fulfill my duties and meet expectations as the head of Apple, I will be the first to inform you about it. Unfortunately, this day has come.

I am resigning as an Apple executive. I would like to serve as chairman of the board and serve Apple if the board deems it possible.

In order to maintain continuity (company development - approx. CNews), I strongly recommend appointing my successor, Tim Cook. " Jobs thanked for the work of all employees of the company.

The resignation was made by Steve Jobs on August 24, 2011 at the company's board of directors. After the announcement of Jobs' departure, Apple's over-the-counter stock price fell 7% to $357.4.

On the board, Jobs was elected to the position he claimed: chairman of the board of directors of Apple. Jobs' place in the company was taken by Tim Cook, who had previously worked as chief operating officer.

Death and after death

• On Wednesday, October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs passed away at the age of 56. The cause of his death was pancreatic cancer. S. Jobs fought the most dangerous ailment for seven years.

The house Steve Jobs lived in. Palo Alto City, California, U.S.oto : Reuters

• Immediately after Jobs' death, a site appeared on the Internet, whose creators propose to install October 14 in memory of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Activists offer on this day to dress in the style of Jobs and publish their photos on the Internet. In addition, the site invites all users to change their photos on social networks on Jobs' photos on October 14, as well as share their impressions of how Apple products affected their lives.

What Steve Jobs ate

At the end of July 2019, Business Insider published fragments from the biography of Steve Jobs, from which it became known that Apple's co-founder had very specific food preferences. So, from an early age, Jobs ate only fruits and vegetables and from time to time fasted for several days in a row. And when Jobs discovered he had pancreatic cancer, he went against the wishes of doctors and tried to heal by eating an extreme diet.

For most of his life, Jobs was a vegetarian, and extremely fastidious - if for one reason or another the food did not suit him, Jobs could frustrate the anger at the cook and restaurant manager. During his first year, Jobs "lived" on cereal, dates, almonds and carrots. Jobs later began to follow an even stricter diet and completely abandoned bread, grain and milk. Then Jobs began to fast and did not eat for two or three days in a row.

Jobs' friend, Crisan Brennan, also led a vegetarian lifestyle, but their daughter Lisa did not. They bought foods such as quinoa and celery, although sometimes Crisan and Lisa pampered themselves with grilled chicken.

Lauren Powell, who Steve Jobs married, was a vegetarian. Their wedding cake did not contain eggs and milk, and many guests found it inedible. Jobs and Powell shared a passion for natural foods, and Powell even started her own sustainable food company.

When Steve Jobs found out he had a rare form of pancreatic cancer, he refused the surgery that doctors recommended. Instead, he tried to heal by becoming a strict vegan. It wasn't until 2008 that Powell began including fish and other proteins in his food.

In the months before his death, Steve Jobs had barely eaten solid food. By that time, the cancer had already metastasized to bones and other organs, notes Business Insider.^[3]

Condolences to Steve Jobs' family and fans

Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder

We suffered an irreparable loss. It seems to me that when so many people love the products he created, he did a lot for this world.

Howard Stringer, Sony President

Steve Jobs was a spotlight beam in the digital world. Jobs was greatly influenced by the Japanese industry and Sony, he called the founder of the company Akito Morita his teacher, Walkman had a great influence on him. The digital world has lost its main leader, but Stephen's innovation and creativity will inspire many more generations.

Barack Obama, President of the United States

Steve stands among the greatest American innovators - bold enough to think differently from everyone else, determined enough to believe in his powers to change the world, and gifted enough to do so.

Bill Gates, founder and head of Microsoft

Rarely do you see a person who has left such an indelible mark in the world, the consequences of which will be felt for many more generations.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and head of Facebook

Steve, thank you for mentoring and friendship. Thank you for showing that your products can change the world. I'm going to miss you.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, former governor of California

Steve lived the California Dream every day of his life, he changed the world and inspired us all.

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft

We lost a unique technology pioneer, a creator who knew how to make great and great pieces.

Michael Dell, Dell CEO

Today we lost a visionary leader, the technology industry lost its legendary identity, and I lost a friend and a business companion. The legacy of Steve Jobs will be remembered for generations.

Larry Page, CEO Google

He was a great man with incredible achievements and a brilliant mind. He always seemed to be able to say in a few words what you wanted to think about before you thought about it. His focus on the user - above all else - has always been an inspiration to me.

Steve Case, founder of AOL

I feel honored to have personally known Steve Jobs. He was one of the most inventive entrepreneurs of our generation. His legacy will live on for centuries.

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google

Steve, your passion for perfection is felt by everyone who has ever touched Apple products.

• On October 7, 2011, it was reported that Steve Jobs would be buried according to Buddhist tradition. This is written by the British media with reference to their own sources. The founder of Apple was a Buddhist in his moral beliefs. He adopted the religion during his 1973 trip to India^[4].

Until now, neither the family of Steve Jobs nor Apple have revealed the place of the funeral and the cause of death of the creator of the cult gadgets, whose death is mourned by millions of fans around the world. According to some media reports, the funeral of Steve Jobs will be held over the weekend in the city of Sacramento. The city administration says that only the closest people will be allowed to attend the funeral.

Meanwhile, religious fanatics from the Westboro Baptist congregation said they were picketing Steve Jobs' funeral. According to the leader of the organization, Margie Phelps, the creator of Apple has sinned a lot in his life. "He did not praise the Lord and taught sin," she added.

Jobs will be erected a monument in Hungary

A computer software company from Hungary demonstrated how much Jobs meant to her, deciding to embody his affection in the form of a bronze statue of the likeness of Jobs, tall and mighty, more than 2 m high.

The chairman of the company Graphisoft Gabor Bojar (Gabor Bojar) is the person due to whom the sculptor-artist Erno Toth will do this work. He creates a statue of Jobs using a photograph of the founder of the company Apple from an old issue of The Economist. Bohar claims that his sympathy for Jobs originated during their meeting at a technology show nearly thirty years ago.

Steve Jobs monument to be erected outside Graphisoft office

The statue will depict Jobs in the style he is used to being seen in presentations: wearing a turtleneck, jeans and an iPhone in his hand. The monument is planned to be erected at the end of December near the company's office in Budapest.

Puppet image

Inicons created a 12-inch doll - the image of Apple CEO Steve Jobs during the presentation of the company's product. She looks pretty realistic. The prototype is shown on the firm's website. According to a company note, "the final product type and color may vary."

According to Forbes employee Brian Caulfield, Apple may not like this realistic copy.

For $99, the delivery list includes: a realistic copy of the head, two pairs of glasses, a "well-articulated body," three pairs of hands, a black tiny turtleneck, a pair of blue miniature jeans, one black leather belt, one chair, a back with the inscription "One More Thing" (this expression Jobs has regularly used since 1999, representing the company's new products), tiny sneakers, two apples ("one aspirated") and tiny black socks.

According to information on the company's website, global deliveries will begin in February 2012, and the release will be limited.

In January 2012, lawyers for Apple and the family of Steve Jobs forced the creator of the doll, the founder of the software company, to abandon the release of products and its further sale. In a statement on the site, InIcons apologized for halting the project because there was no alternative but to receive a blessing from Steve Jobs' family, according to the statement.

Read more here.

Agreement to create Apple went under the hammer for $1.6 million

Sotheby's auction house let the contract for Apple go under the hammer. Its cost was $1.6 million with an initially assigned price of $100-150 thousand for this document 35 years ago.

The contract was sold, among other rare documents and publications, the exact amount of the transaction amounted to $1.594 million, of which 12% is the commission of the auction house. Bidding was terminated in the amount of $1.350 million. The buyer gave this figure over the phone.

According to Sotheby's, the buyer was a certain Eduardo Cisneros, head of Cisneros Corp. The headquarters of this company is located in Miami, USA. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust.

The three-page contract is dated April 1, 1976. Under him are the signatures of Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, as well as the lesser-known Ron Vine. At the time of the company's founding, Vine was 41 years old (now 77), and for participating in the creation of the new company, he received a 10% stake in Apple.

Interestingly, Vine sold his stake just days later and raised $800 from the deal. He attributed the move to his previous failures in the venture capital business, as well as the fact that all founders were personally responsible for the debts of the new company, which he feared. With Apple's current capitalization, Vine's stake would cost $3.6 billion.

2014: A monument to Jobs removed in St. Petersburg

In early November 2014, a monument to Steve Jobs, made in the form of a huge iPhone, was dismantled in St. Petersburg after Apple CEO Tim Cook confessed to his unconventional sexual orientation. However, the real reason for the disappearance of the memorial was named by its installer, the Western European Financial Union (ZEFS) holding.

According to the corporation, the touch screen of this giant smartphone failed, so the device was sent for repair. This information was confirmed by the press service of the Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO), on the territory of which there was a monument to the legendary founder of Apple.^[5]

Monument to Steve Jobs in the form of a giant iPhone dismantled in St. Petersburg

It is alleged that the decision to dismantle the monument was made before October 30, 2014, when Tim Cook officially announced that he was gay. It was this statement, according to Russian media, that was one of the reasons for the liquidation of the monument. Another reason was called the fact that Apple products transfer personal data of users to American special services.

According to the head of the ZEFS corporation Maxim Dolgopolov, the monument to Jobs may be returned, but only after it is possible to send messages to the United States from this two-meter iPhone about the abandonment of Apple devices. On December 1, 2014, a public opinion poll will be held, following which a final decision will be made regarding the future fate of the monument.

The Jobs Memorial, erected in early 2013, had an interactive screen that displayed information about the founder of Apple. On this device was a QR code leading to a site dedicated to Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs autographed floppy disk sold for $84K

On December 9, 2019, Steve Jobs' autographed floppy disk was sold for $84,115 with an initial price of $7,500. The auction was held by the auction house PR.

The floppy disk, which went under the hammer, is loaded with Macintosh System Tools 6.0. Although the floppy disk was released in 1988, it has remained in good condition - defects and signs of aging are minimal. At the same time, it is not known in which year the co-founder of Apple left his signature there.

The fact that Steve Jobs is the author of the stroke was previously established by experts. The buyer was promised to submit all the necessary documents to make sure of this.

The special value of the floppy disk is that Steve Jobs almost never signed autographs, he did not like to do it.

Jobs was extremely reluctant to sign autographs and often refused to comply with collectors' requests, the auction house said in a statement.

At the same time as the floppy disk, the business card of the founder of the businessman was sold at the auction. On it, the company logo also presents a striped bitten apple. The starting price of the business card was $500, and it went for $5,400.

Earlier, the poster of "Toy Story" with the signature of Steve Jobs went under the hammer for $31,250. In addition, an application for employment signed by Jobs in 1973 was sold at the auction - its cost was $175 thousand.

In the seven years since 2012, the online auction service RR Auction has sold seventeen lots relating to Steve Jobs for a total of $607,603.

For example, in 2018, at the RR Auction for $47,775, Macworld# 1 magazine was sold for February 1984 with the signature of Steve Jobs, with a starting price of $10,000. And in April 2012 Motorola , the buyer gave $5,676 for the lot signed by Steve Jobs on the back of the business card of a company employee.^[6]

Rules for manipulating people from Steve Jobs

Main article: Steve Jobs' Business Rules

Steve Jobs was a great entrepreneur and manager with an innate gift of persuasion. Jobs could create a so-called field of distortion of reality, with the help of which the founder of Apple made his point of view an irrefutable fact in the eyes of the interlocutor, which often ensured the company a successful result.

Interesting facts

• Steve Jobs, a good friend of Larry Ellison, was invited to Larry's fourth marriage as an official wedding photographer.

• Albert Hofmann, the creator of LSD, shortly before his death asked Apple CEO Steve Jobs to support the research of Swiss psychiatrist Peter Gasser with money. Steve Jobs met with Rick Doblin, the head of the association and a close friend of Hofmann, but it was not possible to convince him to allocate funds. Hofmann chose Steve Jobs as the addressee, as the latter has repeatedly said that he tried LSD. According to the head of Apple, these were "one or two or three of the most important things I've done in my life."^[7].

Property

Jobs' car

Steve Jobs drove only Mercedes-Benz SL 55 AMG cars, and without license plates. The fact is that according to California laws, the installation of numbers is given for six months. Jobs entered into an agreement with one car dealership, according to which every six months he took a new SL 55, and returned the old one back. The benefit of the car dealership was that the car under Jobs could sell more than the new one.

Steve Jobs House

The Waverley Street residence in Palo Alto (California, USA) was acquired by Jobs in the mid-1990s after he married Lauryn Powell. The house is made in the British style. Jobs lived in it for 20 years and died here.

On July 17, 2012, Steve Jobs' Waverley Street home was robbed. It is not specified whether someone lives in this house at present.

On August 2, 2012, police arrested Kariem McFarlin, 35, a resident of Alameda, California. In mid-August, he is in prison demanding a bail of $500 thousand. The maximum degree of punishment for the crime committed by him is 7 years 8 months in prison. Hearings in this case are scheduled for August 20.

According to the publication, McFarlin stole computing equipment and personal belongings worth over $60 thousand from Jobs' house.

Authorities in San Francisco Bay, where the city of Palo Alto is located, are informing of a double-digit increase in thefts in the first half of 2012. According to statistics from the Palo Alto Police Department, 63% of crimes of this nature are due to the fault of residents: out of carelessness, they often leave the doors and windows of houses unlocked^[8].

Steve Jobs' yacht

In December 2012, it was announced that Steve Jobs' high-tech yacht called Venus could not leave the port of Amsterdam by court order. Such a ban was imposed on the ship due to a financial dispute with yacht designer Phillip Stack.

The 78-meter aluminum vessel, built by the Dutch manufacturer Feadship according to the sketches of Stack and drawings of the naval architect De Voogt, was launched in October 2012. But until now, the family of the late Apple founder cannot get Venus at their disposal, as Stack tries to prove through the court that Jobs underpaid him part of the amount for the work.

According to Stack, Jobs' family owed him 3 million euros. He also said that he expects a fee of 6% of the cost of the ship, which he estimates at 150 million euros. According to Jobs family estimates, the cost of Venus does not exceed 105 million euros. Until the dispute is resolved, Venus will remain in the port of Amsterdam.

Recall that, as it became known a year after the death of Steve Jobs, in October 2012, shipbuilders from the Dutch Alsmer completed work on a yacht, the design of which the founder and ex-head of Apple was engaged in for many years.

Completely constructed from aluminum, the yacht was invented from beginning to end by Jobs himself, however, he resorted to help from the French designer Philippe Stack. The yacht is almost 80 meters long, but due to the lightness of the structures, the ship has quite high speed characteristics.

Venus is not designed without luxuries. In particular, the ship is equipped with a unique huge solarium with a built-in large Jacuzzi, which is located on the bow of the ship. The captain's bridge is crowned by a cabin equipped with seven 27-inch iMacs, through which vessel control and navigation are carried out. With a certain angle, the design of the yacht strongly resembles the appearance of one of the popular Apple smartphones, the iPhone 4.

The existence and the project of the yacht itself is knocked out of the image of Steve Jobs, which was replicated during his lifetime in the media. In particular, Jobs has always been known as an opponent of excessive luxury and, on the contrary, a supporter of minimalism in design and almost an ascetic in everyday life. The billionaire lived in the most ordinary cottage in the California city of Palo Alto, always wore modest jeans and a black sweater, and also preferred to drive a solid Mercedes car, while many of his "colleagues" in the Forbes rating traditionally preferred and prefer Bentley or Maybach.

There are a few words about the project of creating a yacht in the famous biography of Steve Jobs, written by Walter Isaacson. This is what the biographer recalls: "Having breakfast with an omelette in a cafe, we went back to his [Jobs] house and he showed me all his models and architectural sketches. As expected, the yacht's plan was minimalist. Her teak decks were perfectly level, the cabin windows were glazed with huge floor-to-ceiling glass, and the main living room had glass walls. At that time, the Dutch company Feadship was already building the boat, but Jobs was still messing around with the design. "I know I can die and Lauren will be left with a half-built boat," he said. "But I have to keep going or it will be an acknowledgment that I am ready to die."

Unfortunately, it did.

Family

• Joan Carol Schible/Simpson - birth mother
• Abdulfattah John Jandali is a biological father
• Clara Jobs - Foster Mother
• Paul Jobs - Foster Father
• Patty Jobs - Foster Sister
• Mona Simpson is a sister

Steve's first daughter is Lisa Brennan-Jobs (b. 17.05.1978) with Chris-Ann Brennan, to whom he was never married.

On March 18, 1991, Steve Jobs married Lawrence Powell, who is nine years his junior. She bore Steve three children:

1. Reed Jobs (b. 22.09.1991) - son
2. Erin Siena Jobs (b. 19.08.1995) - daughter
3. Evie Jobs (born 05.1998) - daughter

Jobs' daughter on father: He was rude and didn't pay child support

On August 3, 2018, the new issue of Vanity Fair published an excerpt from the book of the 40-year-old daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs, in which she talks about a difficult relationship with her father. Jobs was rude to her and unwilling to pay child support, Lisa said. The book, titled Small Fry, will be released in September 2018.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs was born in Oregon in 1978, when Steve Jobs was 23. Jobs denied fatherhood, although the mother, Crisan Brennan, told Lisa that her parents chose her name together. After that, however, Jobs completely stopped helping the family: for the first two years, Crisan worked as a waitress and cleaner while Lisa attended kindergarten at the church, and in 1980 sued San Mateo County to force her father to pay child support. Steve Jobs refused to recognize paternity, vowed that he was infertile, and even pointed to another person who, according to him, was Lisa's real father. However, the DNA test denied his words, and the court ruled that Jobs must pay alimony in the amount of $385 a month, as well as cover his daughter's health insurance until she comes of age. At the insistence of Jobs' lawyers, the case was closed on December 8, 1980, and just four days later Apple shares entered the market, and Jobs became rich - his fortune increased by $200 million overnight.

After that, Jobs visited Lisa every month. The girl hardly spoke to her father, but was very proud of him and believed that he named his first computer - Apple Lisa - in her honor. However, when she asked Jobs directly about this, he rather sharply dispelled her illusions. Once the father and daughter drove together in his car, a Porsche convertible, which Jobs, according to rumors, changed very often - "it was worth appearing at least one scratch." Lisa asked if her father would give her the car when he got bored, but Jobs replied that it was out of the question. 'You're not going to get anything. Got it? Nothing, "Lisa quotes her father in her memoirs. The girl did not understand what these words referred to - only to the car or something more - but, as she admits, they wounded her in the heart.

Lisa later visited her father, who lived with wife Lauren Powell-Jobs and three children. She recalls that when visiting her father's house, she often stole small things like toothpaste and powder, and could not explain these attacks of kleptomania that occurred only in Jobs' mansion. When Lisa turned 27, Jobs his wife, children from his second marriage and Lisa herself went on a cruise, during which they stayed in the villa of the leader of the U2 group Bono. Over dinner, Bono asked if it was true that Jobs named his first computer after his daughter. Jobs hesitated, but answered in the affirmative. Lisa writes that by then she had long come to terms with the impossibility of the great reconciliation shown in Hollywood films. According to her, the father never wasted "no money, no food, no words."

My existence stained his reputation, "Lisa notes as the reason for such a rude attitude of his father. "For me, the opposite was true: the closer I was to him, the less ashamed I was of my position.

Lisa notes that she regularly visited her father in the last years of her life - Jobs died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 56, when Lisa herself was 33 years old. She became a journalist - her father paid for her Harvard tuition - and is working by profession by early August 2018. Lisa does not maintain social media accounts and tries to avoid excessive media attention.^[9]

Steve Jobs' widow leaves children unhereditary

At the end of February 2020, Lauren Powell Jobs announced that she did not intend to leave her children in the inheritance that remained after the death of her husband Steve Jobs. Read more here.

Steve Jobs movies

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• The first feature film about the biography of Steve Jobs "Jobs" was released worldwide on August 16, 2013. Earlier in the summer of 2013, Open Roads Studio released a 15-second trailer for the film on the Instagram platform, which shortly before opened the function of posting not only images, but also videos.

"Jobs" tells the story of Apple's initial take-off, which was associated with the release of the iPod music player in 2001. The main role in the film is played by Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher, partner and co-founder of the company Steve Wozniak is played by Josh Gad.

Actor Ashton Kutcher admitted on one of the Internet sites why he agreed to star in this role. According to him, the choice for him was "difficult" because he has great respect for his activities, and also has many friends and colleagues who happened to work with Stephen during his lifetime.

Kutcher also noted that the greatest success in life comes through overcoming difficulties, so he accepted such a difficult role as a challenge. He also assured that he tried to convey the portrait of Steve very carefully.

In the first weekend, the film "Jobs" raised only $6.7 million, not meeting the expectations of its creators. The film "Kick 2," which premiered on the same day, raised $13.6 million in the first weekend, the film "Butler" - $25 million. In the overall standings, the picture took seventh place, which is below the films "We Are Millers" and "Elysium," which have been at the box office for two weeks^[10].

Books about Steve Jobs

"The formation of Steve Jobs. The journey from reckless upstart to visionary leader "

Publishing house "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber"

2015

The authors of the biography are two journalists - Brent Schlander and Rick Tetzeli, who worked side by side for several years. The book's release was preceded by three years of painstaking work, during which they conducted research, interviews, studied reporting, and co-authored and edited texts.

One notable point of the book is the fact that one of its authors - Brent Schlander - personally knew Steve Jobs for 25 years. The journalist and founder of Apple met at an interview, and in subsequent years their communication was informal, Schlander often visited Jobs at home. Brent Schlander sets out his observations and impressions of Steve Jobs in the book in the first person.

In the biography, the authors show the professional and personal transformation of Steve Jobs throughout his life. The main question related to his career is outlined in the book as follows: how could an "exile from his own company, ostracized for his inconsistency, sharpness, wrong business decisions," be able to revive Apple, create a completely new set of products that marked an entire era, and become revered by all leaders?

Journalists also aim to break down the clichés often found in posthumous Steve Jobs articles, books and films. These include the notion that Jobs was "a guru with a designer's flair; a shaman who wielded power over human souls, through which he could indoctrinate his interlocutors with anything ("field of distortion of reality"); a pompous jerk who ignored other people's opinions in a manic pursuit of perfection. "

According to Brent Schlender, none of this matches his experience with Steve Jobs, who always seemed to him "more complex, more human, more sensitive and even more intelligent than the image created by the press." Schlander wanted to offer society a more complete picture of life and a deeper understanding of a person about whom he had written a lot.

The biography is written in simple and light language. To some, it may seem superfluous to have many secondary details and the presence of author emotionality, but the reason for this can be seen in the enthusiasm of the authors for working on the book and their deep interest in the personality of Steve Jobs. Thanks to this involvement of the authors, the biography is very lively.

Excerpt from the book

Throughout the last decade of Steve's life, stories related to his "unbearable" character will every now and then excite the sensational audience. The stubborn "whips" in Jobs's behavior seemed incompatible with the steady success that has finally become a companion to the long-suffering Apple since the beginning of the new century. This sudden temper did not in any way relate to the image of the company as an exclusively creative organization with powerful potential and that huge the benefits that its talented employees brought to humanity.

Of course, despite the "cool" of the revived Apple, its engineers, programmers, designers, marketers and representatives of other professions continued to persistently work on its image. The real masterpieces in this field were the brilliant advertising campaigns of Lee Klow, the minimalist verified design of Joni Ive, the carefully choreographed product presentations held by Jobs, in which players and smartphones were associated with the words magical and phenomenal. This image was shaped by hard work, especially after the iPhone turned out to be the best-selling portable computer device in history.

Now Apple is bigger and more influential than Sony. But Jobs's actions sometimes violated the overall integrity of the painting. How could this clean and austere facade relate, for example, to a 2008 incident in which Steve called Joe Noser, a New York Times columnist who once opened an Esquire issue with the title article about the Apple founder, "a witch of shit that misrepresents the facts all the time"? How could a company known for the brilliance of its marketing programs allow its products to be manufactured in the Chinese factories of Taiwan's Foxconn, where appalling working conditions and poor safety practices have led to dozens of worker suicides? How did it happen that Apple practically colluded with publishers when they consistently raised prices for e-books in an attempt to force Amazon's online store to also raise prices for products it sells? How to justify the company's behind-the-scenes agreement with other Silicon Valley big players not to hire engineers from other manufacturing companies? And how "clean" can Foxconn or its CEO be considered if, during an investigation by the Federal Securities Commission, its former executives were forced to resign, convicted of forgery, retroactively issuing board permission to reward employees with exchange options worth hundreds of millions of dollars?

In some of these cases, Apple's moral sins were unnecessarily inflated or its "judges" did not take into account all the circumstances. But Jobs managed to aggravate even clearly contrived situations with his inept antics, demonstrating either rudeness, then indifference, or arrogance. Even those of us who could witness a substantial softening of Steve's violent nature could not deny that his penchant for outrageous antisocial behaviour, alas, continued to make itself known. None of those I spoke to could explain the reason for Steve's persistence in the behavior of these childhood manifestations. Nobody, not even Lauryn.

I am convinced of only one thing: it is useless to try to characterize this multifaceted personality with rough strokes - both good and bad or dual. So when Steve "rude" walked about Neil Young, I was not surprised at all. He could conceal his grievances for decades. Even after he got everything he wanted from Disney, Eisner's last name continued to make him furious. "Sin," Perfect Gasse and consisting in the fact that he told Scully that Jobs wanted to dismiss him from the post of CEO, belonged back to 1985. But a quarter of a century later, Steve literally growled when he heard the name of this Frenchman.

Jobs' grievances extended to companies that, in his opinion, did not do well with Apple. Steve's passionate antipathy towards Adobe, for example, was fueled by the fact that its founder John Warnock supported Windows with his software just as Apple was struggling. Steve could not help but understand that for the time when Macintosh occupied only 5 percent of the personal computer market, it was a completely rational decision - but stubbornly viewed it as a betrayal.

After many years, being at the top of success and fame, he returned Adobe's debt, refusing to have the iPhone support Flash. But, objectively speaking, there was also a rational grain in this. Although this program was easy to work and provided online viewing of video content, it had security problems, and sometimes it unexpectedly broke. Adobe showed no clear willingness to address these flaws, and the iPhone was a new networked computer platform, and Jobs could not allow it to suffer from network attacks. He did not install the program on the iPhone, and then on the iPad.

Flash was so popular that Apple was hit by a wave of discontent. But Steve showed firmness. In 2010, he released a lengthy statement in which he indicated six reasons why he did not support the Flash program. These reasons sounded very convincing, but the taste of revenge was still felt in the words of the statement. Now the power of Apple was such that Adobe had to pay an expensive price for the betrayal that Steve suspected of her. Flash will survive, but Adobe will have to shift its energy and resources to developing other streaming media technologies.

Steve's biggest grudge in his final years was about Google. Jobs had many reasons to consider himself personally dedicated when, in 2008, Google created and launched the Android mobile operating system, largely "slimed" from Apple-owned iOS. Steve was most outraged by the fact that Eric Schmidt, president and CEO of Google, has been a member of the Apple board of directors and his personal friend for many years. In addition, Google almost free of charge transferred Android to a number of mobile phone manufacturers, thus creating the prerequisites that devices made by Samsung, HTC, LG and others will interfere with Apple's position in the respective markets due to its cheaper products.

Jobs went on a rampage. Google has opened the first page of a book on global dominance for Microsoft. Steve was convinced that Google's free transfer of the operating system was intended to introduce a single standard for all mobile phones and laptops in the world, thus repeating what Gates did with the Macintosh, releasing his Windows OS two decades ago.

Links

• All about Steve Jobs
• Almost everything about Steve Jobs
• Steve Jobs Path
• Steve Jobs Speech to Stanford Alumni (June 12, 2005):
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• How Steve Jobs resurrected Pixar studio
• One of Steve Jobs' best TV performances

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