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Steven Paul Jobs (San Francisco, February 24, 1955 [1]) is an entrepreneur and computer scientist.
is the cofounder and CEO of Apple Inc., was the owner of the NeXT Computer (later acquired by Apple at the time of his return after almost 12 years) and first chief executive of Pixar acquisition by Disney. He recently left the role of chief operating officer of Apple Inc. for health reasons. It is also a member of the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company, which is the person with the highest number of shares. It is well known for having made known to the general public and produce the first computer with mouse and icon-based interface.
Jobs was ranked among the 25 most powerful businessmen in the world in the annual ranking by U.S. magazine Fortune in 2007, pulling 6-position its historic rival Bill Gates, Microsoft founder. [2]
Jobs was also named in the 2010 Person of the Year by the Financial Times [3].
Contents [hide] 1
The health of Steve Jobs Biography
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2.1 Emergence and success of Apple
2.2 The experience of NeXT and Pixar
2.3 The return
Apple iMac 2.4, Mac OS X and iPod: the revival of Apple iPhone and iPad
2.5: The expansion of Apple
3 Vision policy

4 Notes 5 References 6 External links

7 Links external
The health of Steve Jobs Steve Jobs

in 2004 discovered a rare form of pancreatic cancer, much less aggressive than the more common form, [4] developed in the previous nine months with no apparent symptoms, and now have undergone to surgical removal of metastases.
For the two-month absence of Steve Jobs was appointed Tim Cook as managing director. A distance of only 2 years after the discovery of cancer in 2006, Jobs has appeared in good form of health. However, due to cancer and subsequent therapies, Steve Jobs has developed type 1 diabetes, also called juvenile, insulin-dependent diabetes, which forced him to start insulin therapy to treat disorders metabolic (significant loss of weight and presence of protein and sugar in the urine) and follow a balanced diet (Jobs is pescetariano [5]) by controlled injections of carbohydrates, proteins and fats.
In 2009, conflicting reports have been disclosed to the health of Steve Jobs, also because of his absence announced at MacWorld in January. In the official press release of January 5, 2009, Jobs said to be "good" and that "only a heart hormone" that prevented him from "gaining weight". In the same statement the board of directors of Apple reiterates full confidence in Steve Jobs and his ability to lead a company whose title since 1998 (the year when Jobs returned to Apple's lead after the 'exile' started in 1986) to date has increased by about 2250%.
Steve Jobs writes: [6] "I've lost weight in 2008 but I could not understand why, so I decided to go all the way to the question by putting it as my number one priority. After some tests the doctors have told me that the failure is a hormonal problem that I "stole" the protein that my body needs. More sophisticated tests confirmed this diagnosis. The remedy is fairly simple and I have already started treatment, but since I'm not in a week or less in a month, doctors expect it will take to recover throughout the spring because what I lost. In the meantime continue to work as CEO of Apple. " After this news, the rumors about a recurrence of the tumor decreased Jobs.
On January 14, 2009 Steve Jobs announced his temporary withdrawal from Apple for five months because of his health problems, delegating once again the position of chief executive Tim Cook, Apple's chief operating officer. In an open letter to Apple employees and on the Internet, Steve Jobs said that his health is "more complex than thought" and in need of medical care more complex [7].
On June 20, 2009 leaving a article on the website of The Wall Street Journal explaining that during the month of April 2009, underwent a liver transplant in the state of Tennessee and his health is good. Apple Inc. ha confermato il suo rientro per la fine del mese di giugno 2009[8]
Durante questo periodo Steve Jobs non sale sul palco del Moscone Center di San Francisco a presentare nuovi prodotti per ben due volte. La prima il 6 gennaio in occasione dell'ultima partecipazione di Apple al MacWorld Trade Show della casa editrice IDG, la seconda l'8 giugno per la WWDC 2009. In entrambi i casi sul palco è salito Phil Schiller, vice presidente per il product marketing a livello mondiale, per presentare tra gli altri i nuovi pacchetti iLife e iWork, il nuovo iPhone 3Gs e il rinnovo della linea MacBook Pro.
Il 29 luglio 2009 il portale TMZ.com pubblica una fotografia che lo ritrae davanti il Campus Apple di Cupertino, da cui era stato assente dal mese di gennaio.[9] Il 9 settembre 2009 Steve Jobs torna sul palco a presentare il rinnovo dell'intera gamma di iPod. Appare in condizioni migliori rispetto all'ultima volta che si mostrò al pubblico e ne approfitta per ringraziare il ragazzo di vent'anni, deceduto in un incidente stradale, che gli ha donato il suo fegato e per invitare tutti a diventare donatori.[10]
Il 17 gennaio 2011 Apple ha annunciato che Steve Jobs ha richiesto un nuovo congedo medico. Jobs rimane il CEO di Apple e continuerà ad occuparsi delle principali questioni strategiche ma verrà sostituito per le operazioni giornaliere da Tim Cook, il COO di Apple[11].
Biografia

Nato da madre americana (Joanne Carole Schieble) e da padre siriano (Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, uno studente che sarebbe diventato più tardi professore di scienze politiche), Steve non fu educato dai suoi genitori naturali, ma fu dato in adozione appena nato. Fu adottato da Paul e Clara Jobs, residenti a Mountain View, nella contea di Santa Clara, in California. Steve ha una sorella biologica più giovane, Mona Simpson, scrittrice di successo.[12]
Nascita e successo di Apple
Nel 1972 Jobs si diplomò all'istituto Homestead di Cupertino, in California, iscrivendosi al Reed College di Portland nell'Oregon, ma abbandonò l'università dopo solo un semestre per andare a lavorare.
Nel 1974 era alla Atari con il suo amico Steve Wozniak, dove lavorarono su una prima versione della circuiteria del videogioco Breakout. Successivamente i due decisero di mettersi in proprio. Ottennero un finanziamento da un industriale, Mike Markkula e, nell'inverno del 1976, fondarono la Apple Computer. La prima sede della nuova società fu il garage dei genitori: qui lavorarono al loro primo computer, l'Apple I, che vide la luce il 1º aprile del 1976. Per finanziarsi, Jobs vendette il suo pulmino Volkswagen e Wozniak la propria calcolatrice.
Nel 1977 Jobs e Wozniak lanciarono il primo personal computer (all'epoca si utilizzava ancora il termine microcomputer) destinato a conoscere una diffusione di massa: l'Apple II. Le vendite toccarono il milione di dollari. Nel 1980 la Apple si quotò in Borsa.
Dalle ceneri della collaborazione con il PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) and the Apple Lisa (the world's first computer retail GUI and mouse), 24 January 1984 Apple released a compact personal computer equipped with a new operating system interface design: the Apple Macintosh. With icons, windows and pull-down menu, the Mac was a great success. Jobs for the general public became the most prominent person in the world of computing.
The experience of NeXT and Pixar
After the launch of Macintosh, the Jobs-Wozniak partnership broke up. In 1985, Wozniak left Apple Computer to change activities; Jobs in turn went on a collision course with John Sculley, the CEO that he himself had appointed, and he also left the Apple.
the age of thirty he decided to start over, establishing a new company, NeXT Computer, with the aim of launching a new technological revolution. In 1986 he bought Pixar from Lucasfilm, a film production company with the ambition to achieve only computer animation. The NeXT computer
produced better and more technologically advanced competitors, but with higher prices and could not ahead of the competition, partly because of the appearance on the market of cheap computers "clones" of IBM PC.
Meanwhile in 1991 he married Laurene Powell, in a ceremony officiated by a Buddhist Monaco. From the marriage were born three sons and then Jobs has also recognized his daughter Lisa, was born from a relationship with a painter.
Pixar focused on the production of feature films to your computer, managing to break through in 1995 with the production of animated films Toy Story - The world of toys. There was another worldwide success with the film A Bug's Life. Return to Apple

In 1996, Apple Computer was in crisis, the Mac OS operating system, installed on Apple machines, had become obsolete and the company was in need of change and offer something new on the market. The company therefore decided to buy a software company that possessed a modern operating system, later adapted to machines with PowerPC architecture. At first the company thought
the acquisition of Be Inc., a company founded by two defectors from Apple: the greatest candidate to become the new operating system from Apple seems to be the BeOS, which was already in the process of porting to the PowerPC architecture. As a result, Apple Computer approached Steve Jobs. Jobs in return asked that Apple acquire NeXT - in crisis - and the deal went through. The NeXTSTEP, the NeXT operating system, becomes the basis of what was the future of Apple OS, Mac OS X, while the development of the old Mac OS ended with version 9.2.
iMac, Mac OS X and iPod: Apple's raise


Steve Jobs with Bill Gates
In 1997, after market performance ups and downs, the CEO of Apple Gil Amelio was removed again and Jobs took the post of interim CEO, but without salary (it was jokingly called iCEO, still receives the symbolic sum of $ 1 per year). His job, however, has led to various rewards, including a private jet from $ 90 million (1999), and less than $ 30 million in shares (2000-2002). This type of compensation should not be considered extraordinary, because it is used by many leaders for the significant tax benefits derived from capital gains.
While the development of Mac OS X was still in progress, Jobs launched the iMac, a highly successful model of personal computer "all-in-one", ie including screen and other components in the same frame of the computer, dramatically reducing desktop clutter, re-entering the market for mass products. Until then, Apple had been content to dominate two niche markets, that of graphic design and music, in isolation from the world of IBM.
2001 was the year of the official launch of Mac OS X, based on NeXTSTEP, which it uses as a Unix kernel. With Mac OS X Apple consolidated its market share. Mac OS X since then has been constantly updated and improved and has been marketed in many later versions, each presented with significant innovations (that is distributed from 2009 Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard). Almost
simultaneously with the launch of the new operating system and new computers, Jobs also decided to jump into the digital music business with iPod, a digital music player advanced submitted October 21, 2001, and iTunes, a software through which you can listen to music and purchased through the online service iTunes Music Store, which quickly established a record of sales and was later rewritten for the Microsoft Windows operating system to further increase the spread. Currently the iPod is the world's best selling media player, with a market share exceeding 80%, while iTunes Store is the "market" the most widely used digital world, with 10 billion songs sold. To show
the displacement of its core business from computer market to the more general media, Jobs said Apple Computer Inc. renaming in January 2007, calling it simply Apple Inc. iPhone and iPad
: The expansion of Apple
After a hype lasted several months, June 29, 2007 Apple began marketing a new product long-awaited iPhone, a phone with only one button at the bottom with which you interact via the multi-touch screen, which also includes navigation functions on the Internet through Wi-Fi (such as a notebook computer), camera, media player (audio, video, images). With the introduction of that product, set the stage for Steve Jobs l'ingresso di Apple nel settore della telefonia cellulare. Nei primi 200 giorni di vendita, l'iPhone conquistò il 19% del mercato degli smartphone con 4 milioni di unità vendute.[13] Attualmente la Apple è la prima produttrice di cellulari negli Stati Uniti.
Il 27 gennaio 2010, Steve Jobs, alla conferenza Apple allo Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater di San Francisco, dopo una attesa reclamata a più voci da fan e media, presenta il tablet targato Apple. Alla base raccoglie il successo dell'iPhone, di nuovo introduce l'iBook store, piazzando l'iPad come gestore e visualizzatore di libri e contenuti cartacei.
Apple con la guida di Jobs continua a produrre e commercializzare Mac OS X, Mac, iPod, iPhone e iPad, prodotti that led the company to become a reference in the field of consumer electronics.


political vision is a supporter of U.S. Democratic Party. [14] In May 2007, Al Gore proposed as president of the United States [15].


^ Notes (EN) Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories: Steve Jobs
^ 25 Most Powerful People in Business, Fortune, December 2007.
^ Macity: The Financial Times appoint Steve Jobs Steve Jobs ^
Personality of the Year: "I'm fine and I will continue to lead the Apple" in IlSole24Ore.com. Retrieved on 2009-02-27.
^ (EN) The Apple Core [1] ^
(EN) Open Letter to Steve Jobs published by Apple, Inc.
^ The text of the letter:
'Team,
I'm sure you all have read my letter last week, where I shared a very personal thing with the entire Apple community. Unfortunately all the rumors and curiosities about my health continues to be a distraction for me, for my family and all those who work at Apple. In addition, during the past week I learned that my health is more complex than I thought.
To try to save me from all the spotlight on me and on my health, allowing you all to work better and concentrate on our great products, I decided to take a medical leave until the end of June.
I've asked Tim Cook to take responsibility for all operations that we perform every day at Apple, and I'm sure both he and the rest of the executive officers, will do a great job. As CEO, will remain involved in major strategic decisions in my absence. The entire board of directors has supported my decision.
I can not wait to see you all this summer
Steve "

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