Steve Jobs showed interest in electronics at an early age. While in high school, Jobs would call Hewlett-Packard to ask for parts for a school project. This lead to his internship at Hewlett-Packard where he met his soon to be partner Steve Wozniak. Wozniak saw building computers as a hobby. Jobs saw the marketing potential in the computer and convinced Wozniak to go into business with him. In 1975, Jobs and Wozniak started building computers in Jobs' parents' garage.
The Apple I generated enough money for them to improve and refine their computer designs. In 1977, they introduced the Apple II. It was the first personal computer with color graphics and a keyboard. In the first three years alone it generated over $203 million dollars. In 1980, they released the Apple III and the LISA. With declining sales, Jobs made the Apple Macintosh which ended up being very flawed. In 1983, Jobs sold his share of Apple and resigned in 1985.. |
March 1997, Apple was at a quarterly loss of $708 million. Jobs took over as interim CEO and made a deal with Microsoft to make sure Apple would survive. Jobs installed new software to make the computers run faster and made them more affordable. At the end of 1998, Jobs raised sales to $5.9 billion. Apples name was synonymous with innovation. After pulling the company out of a hole, Jobs rolled out a series of revolutionary products
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