Steve Jobs's exact age would be 66 years 8 months 18 days old if alive. Total 24, days. Steven Paul Jobs known as Steve Jobs is one of the most inspiring inventors in the computer industry. He was born in San Francisco, California, U. Steve Jobs is one of the founding partners of Apple Computer, Inc.
He is considered to be the leader in the computer industry. Steve Jobs emphasizes the importance of design by knowing well the role of aesthetics in forming social focus.
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Memory starts to fail. It becomes harder to learn new things. Thinking becomes brittle. Mental stamina declines. These symptoms become measurable as early as age 45, at which point most people have already experienced a percent decline in mental agility , and it's all downhill from there.
By age 60, the changes are usually obvious; by age 70 they're often debilitating. Studies have shown that eating well, exercising, and learning new things can ameliorate these difficult symptoms. However, it appears that even when you manage your symptoms, your brain continues deteriorate.
There is, however, apparently at least one way to not just stop the deterioration process but to put it in reverse. A study conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School found that meditating for 30 minutes each day for eight weeks:. Digital music file-sharing service Napster was at the peak of its popularity, and young people were not spending their time shooting movies, but rather downloading and listening to MP3 music files.
Still, there was a problem: although there were great digital camcorders to run in conjunction with iMovie —and awesome digital cameras too for iPhoto— digital music players mostly sucked. Not to mention, they were ugly. That's why, in March , Steve Jobs started a crash development program to build an Apple-branded MP3 player and ship it before that year's holiday season: the iPod was born. On October 23, , he introduced this cute white digital device to a small group of journalists on Apple's campus.
The tagline was 'A thousand songs in your pocket' the ad is a classic , and there was great emphasis on its symbiosis with the iTunes app. But no one in the room, Jobs included, had any clue how important it would turn out to be. It came at a time when a lot of people needed a good MP3 player to take their mostly stolen MP3s with them, and despite its rather high price tag, a lot of PC users ended up buying it too, hacking it so they could use it on their machines. This had Steve Jobs and his team think a great deal: should they keep making a Mac-only iPod, or should they open it to Windows, too?
Although Jobs was initially staunchly opposed to the latter idea, he eventually relented, and the first Windows iPods were introduced in July at Macworld New York. However, it was soon becoming clear that iPod benefited from music piracy, and that its sales could go even higher if there was a legal way to download music. Steve Jobs didn't wait for the music industry to reinvent itself. He went to all record labels to negotiate landmark deals that would lead to the introduction of the iTunes Music Store in April Ironically, one of the arguments he used was that the risk to music labels was quite low, because of the Mac's small market share iTunes was still Mac-only.
The first compelling legal alternative to illegal music file-sharing, the iTunes Store was an instant success, selling one million songs in its first week. It not only helped the sales of iPods, but it eventually reshaped the whole music industry. It was introduced to Windows as well six months later , in October Despite this great success, Apple didn't rest on its laurels. It was really the combination of the iPod mini and the Windows compatibility that propelled the iPod to its status of cultural icon.
The phrase 'Walkman of the digital age' became commonplace to describe it, and in July , Steven Levy of Newsweek wrote an emblematic cover story entitled 'iPod nation'. By that time, 'iPod' had become synonymous with 'portable music player', and the iTunes Store had sold over one billion songs. Although the iPod changed the music industry and the way everybody listened to music, the most important change it carried was probably that of Apple.
It was iPod that revealed the future of Apple, not only as a PC manufacturer, but as a consumer electronics powerhouse. It was also iPod that broadened the company's expertise in the supply chain, manufacturing, and distribution of a mainstream digital device in gigantic proportions.
Finally, it was iPod which, through the crowds it attracted to the company's retail stores, finally helped the Mac business of Apple, whose growth rate started outpacing that of consumer Windows PCs from Steve Jobs openly said he would not make another deal with the Magic Kingdom until Eisner was out. Turns out his opinion was shared by many an executive at Disney — including Walt's own nephew, Roy Disney, who started a public campaign to oust the company's CEO in late He was willing to show his good will in ending the Pixar-Disney dispute.
Steve Jobs took the opportunity to pitch him his new Apple plan. He was going to introduce an iPod with video capabilities soon, and he wanted a movie store to go along with it.
Iger accepted, and both men appeared on stage in October to announce that Disney would be selling TV shows on the iTunes Store. The audience of journalists was pleasantly surprised to see the CEO of Disney appear so friendly with Steve Jobs, and suspected there would soon be news on the Pixar side.
Pixar executives Ed Catmull and John Lasseter were also both given leadership roles in the new combined animation studio.
In many ways, it was as if Pixar had taken over Disney animation —a reverse acquisition reminiscent of NeXT taking over Apple after the merger. Meanwhile, Apple was seeing unprecedented success in all its businesses, not only iPod and iTunes.
The retail stores were hugely popular, and a milestone was reached when Steve Jobs inaugurated the impressive 5th Avenue store in Manhattan, a glass cube facing Central Park.
As for the Mac, it was gaining momentum on the market, benefiting from both the aura of the iPod, and the switch to Intel processors. In the late s, Apple had run several ads to make fun of Intel's Pentium processors. That move to Intel was thus pretty bold, but in the long run turned out to be another wise decision. Not only did it make Macs more competitive and efficient, paving the way for the super slim and super successful MacBook Air notebooks —it also opened up a whole new set of customers to Apple, as Intel Macs could run both Mac OS X and Windows.
The Mac became the platform of choice for an ever larger number of software developers. Less than a year after the announcement, all new Macs were running Intel.
The transition was a complete success. Around , he started a secret project to develop a computer tablet. But in , he realized that the technology that had been developed for this tablet —including a revolutionary touch-screen technology— could also be used in a mobile phone, which was even more appealing. After two more years of development, iPhone was introduced at Macworld on January 9, This keynote is often considered the pinnacle of Steve Jobs' career.
In exchange for exclusivity, the carrier would pay Apple a share of all their iPhone subscription revenues. This was an inversion of the traditional master-slave relationship that carriers entertained with phone manufacturers OEMs.
In the long run, it really turned the phone industry upside down. Unlike iPod, all of Apple understood that iPhone, if successful, could become a world-changing device and redefine their company. Thus, at the end of the iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs also announced that the company's name would change from Apple Computer Inc. Macs still mattered, but they now accounted for a minority of Apple's revenues, and this trend was not about to be reversed. They was a highly symbolic moment in the company's history.
Just like the Windows-compatible iPod, Steve Jobs was originally opposed to letting third-party software on the iPhone. It is impossible to overestimate the impact of the iPhone's App Store, which ushered in a new era in mobile software. Thousands of developers started writing apps for the iPhone platform, which became a competitive advantage for Apple.
Apple proudly showed off this rich choice of software in its TV ad campaign 'There's an app for that' , which ran for over two years. Unfortunately, while he had never been so successful professionally, Steve Jobs had to start fighting cancer with renewed intensity. In late , he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer of a rare kind, that could potentially be cured by surgery. However, against everyone's advice, he refused to have the surgery for nine long months. Instead, true to the ideals of his youth, he tried alternative diets and treatments, including acupuncture and seeing a psychic.
Only in July did he agree to have the surgery. He looked healthy for the next five years, and spoke publicly of being 'cured' of cancer at his famous Stanford commencement speech in Yet at the WWDC keynote in June , few observers failed to notice how thin he appeared on stage, and concerns about his health started popping up again.
They became increasingly frequent until December , when Apple made a shocking announcement that Jobs would not be the keynote speaker at Macworld , and that he was taking a medical leave of absence for six months.
Although he and Apple publicly denied it, the truth was that his cancer had come back. He was actually weeks away from death when he received a liver transplant, in April He came back to Apple in late summer , healthier though still very frail in appearance.
He was eager to bring the finishing touches to a new project very dear to his heart. The iPhone had spun off the idea for a tablet device back in , and it was time to restart that project, which of course became the iPad. It would therefore benefit from the rich variety of apps already present in the iPhone App Store. Although iPad was welcomed by mixed reviews when it was introduced in January some dubbed it a "larger iPod touch" , it was always clear to Steve Jobs that it was 'the biggest thing [he'd] ever done' —the ultimate post-PC device, an eventual replacement of PCs for the average user.
He laid out his vision clearly at the D8 conference in June , where he compared PCs to trucks and iPads to cars. This perspective on iPad was reiterated in a series of TV commercials where the narrator, the 'Apple voice', explained how revolutionary iPad was, and how the revolution had 'only just begun'.
Unfortunately, Steve Jobs' health, which had seemed to recover throughout , started declining again. In January , he announced he was taking a new medical leave of absence, this time without saying when it would end.
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