Apple

=Founder Of Apple: Steve Jobs =



February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011

**Education**-
Mr. Steve Jobs atteneded Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He dropped out after only two semesters.

**Jobs**-
Steven worked for Atari, the creators of the famous games //Space Invaders// and //Roller Coaster Tycoon//. Later, he created the Apple Company with his friend/buisness partner, Steve Wozniak.

1976 Apple computer was founded on April Fools Day. Wozniak and Jobs made a new circut board in the garage.
 * inventions**-

First Apple computer went on sale for $666.66 in the summer of 1976.

1977 Second Apple computer released, first PC to have color graphics (revenue 1 billion).

1980 Apple releases its self to the public.

1983 Lisa computer avaible in stores.

1986 Started Next Inc. made computers for universities.

1989 First Next Inc. computer for $6,500.

1993 Apple relased the Newton hand-held computer that used a pen to control it.

1994 Power Macintosh released.

2001 First ipod is released.

2005 More versions of the ipod nano came out.

2007 iphone is released.

2010 ipad is released.

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**Business Success**-
Apple was able to have served a billion applications to its ipod touch/iphone customers in only 9 months! Apple has also been one of the most successful companies ever, and it has been going on for now over 36 years! In those 36 years years of his very accomplished life, Steve Jobs bought Pixar From LucasFilm and together they produced movies: A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monster Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and others. Apple company also set a stunning record by selling 37 million iphones in the last quarter! Ipad sales have doubled to an amazing record by selling 15.4 million! The company has improved by 73% from last year. Apple is expected to become the worlds first trillion dollar company in 2014. Congradulations Apple workers!

Steve Jobs owns a 5.5 million of the company's common stock (and is the company's largest share holder). Apple stocks closed at $333.73 ; bringing the value of Job's personal holdings to $1.84 billion. Steve Jobs may have only made a dollar a year, but he had gotten most of his money from stock options.
 * Salary**-

**Nu****mber of users**-
The U.S. sensus shows that 51 percent of people with apple products works out at about 55 million homes in all that own something bearing the Apple logo on it. But it doesn’t stop after buying one Apple product. The average household has 1.6 Apple products, but of households that own an Apple product, the average number of products owned goes up to 3, making an estimated 165 million Apple devices in use in American homes today. Apple is a household name.

Apple inc. has been awarded 19 patents to the company. Jobs was awarded more than 300 patents in his name, he also was awarded a Grammy for his musical contribution, and Chamber of Commerce's 2012 President's Award. He was a very amazing man, he will be greatly missed.
 * Awards**-