Final Project- Thoughts and Opinions

I thoroughly enjoyed this project, especially because of it is of Steve Jobs who in this generation will be the most remembered and respected technological individual of our time, I was excited knowing I would be able to write about him, but concerned if I didn't do him justice in comparison of his contributions to the world.  To be honest the most challenging part of the assignment was to figure out how to embed the video I was stuck on it for hours until I figured out to use 'compose' instead of 'edit HTML' on making a post other than that it was writing the posts because writing has never been my strong suit in school.  I the thing I enjoyed most was learning more about Steve Jobs, and about his past other than his business at Apple and Pixar.  In my next blog I would change the layout probably to two columns instead of three to try it out, because it seems clutter with three, and probably put more time into customizing the colors to fit just perfect to the scheme from Apple's website and logo.

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Steve Jobs' Apple Product Creation Timeline

1976-77: Apple I and II

1984: Macintosh

1997: Macintosh G3

1998: iMac

2001: iPod

2003: iTunes

2005: iPod with video, iPod shuffle, iPod Nano

2007: Jan: iPhone / September: iPod Touch

2008: App Store, MacBook Air

2010: iPad

Steve Jobs

Born unnamed to Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanna Simpson in 1955, but soon put up for adoption, and received by Clara and Paul Jobs and given the name Steven Paul Jobs. Steve Jobs grew into his confidence and mechanical talent through his hobby of tinkering with electronics along with his father in the family garage. As an intelligent and innovative young mind he was encouraged by school administrators to skip some grades and jump right on into high school. During high school Jobs spent some time at Hewlett-Packard and grew respect for a computer engineer, Steve Wozniak, and later on formed the company at the front of modern technology today.

After a short stay being a video game designer at Atari and traveling to India for some time, at the age of 21 in 1974 himself and Steve Wozniak started Apple computers, with the user friendly, inexpensive, and intuitive personal computers, the Apple I and then the Apple II. By 1980 Jobs and Wozniak made Apple Computer into a $1.2 billion publicly traded company. Several disappointment product designs later and being in an IBM dominated market of personal computers slowly the executives began to phase out Jobs in belief that he was hurting the company more than helping it. In 1985 Job resigned from Apple, he began a software company NeXT, Inc. following that bought and personally invested in Pixar Animation Studio and in his 12 years running turned it into an extremely successful animation film studio. After his risky, but successful business ventures Apple bought out NeXT and Jobs returned to his position of CEO of Apple, when the great innovations he thought of started based upon the his previous standing at Apple. Based on the idea of allowing all consumers to have their own personal computers, Jobs rolled out the iMac, which became a huge success through clever marketing and design. With the rest of the universally famous inventions and innovations of the iPod, iTunes, iPhone, and most recently the iPad, Jobs made Apple Inc. the most admired company and #1 on Fortune 500. From health problems that stemmed from a tumor found in 2003, Steve Jobs passed away October 5, 2011 at 56 years old.

Biography.com - Steve Jobs

The man of Apple Inc.

The late Steve Jobs, co-founder and face of Apple Inc., a man with technological ideas that he brought to reality during his lifetime.  Jobs became the signature staple name behind all products Apple Inc. put out in the past several years.  Being the brainchild of innovation such as; the iPhone, the powerful line of personal computers of Macbooks and iMacs, and most recently the iPad; Jobs laid the basics of what consumers now expect in all of their new technological purchases, even if it’s not an Apple Inc. product.

I chose to blog about Steve Jobs because he is the mind behind the technological advances that we use today and will most likely be using for years to come.  He has brought to light easy, simple, and effective ways of organizing, buying, listening, and exploring different music that may have never been found without the use of iTunes.  Without the App store I would have never been able found expanded my passion for video games to small, simple time killers as; Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Flight Control, and Unblock Me.  I know I am not the only person that can be thankful of his ingenious technological upbringings making our lives easy and simple with the devices that have come out during his time as Apple Inc. Ceo.