October 9, 2011, dedicated to Steve Jobs: The person who had 10 brains died on 'Dusshehra',
wait I am talking about Steve Jobs. The day of Dusshehra came with sad news of
demise of Steve Jobs. The reason I say '10 brains for Steve Jobs' is that only
a man having 10 brains could do the 'job' what Steve Jobs did.
Full name of Steve Jobs was Steven Paul Jobs (February 24,
1955–October 5, 2011). He was an American computer entrepreneur and inventor.
He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc.,
the organization which pushed the human race forward. It is said that there are
3 apples that changed the world, first that was eaten by Adam and Eve, second
that fell on Newton
and gave us the law of gravity, and the third that Steve built.
How the name 'apple' was given to Apple
Inc.:
In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple
co-founder Steve Wozniak and Mike Markula wanted to start a
computer company and they needed a name to register it. According to Wozniak,
both he and Steve were driving along a Highway when Steve Jobs came up with a
name “Apple Computers”. Steve Jobs was involved with a group of his friends in
running a community type of farm in Oregon (US). He was doing this part time,
while working in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Wozniak thought he might have
got this name idea either from the farm or because of his music tastes, Apple Records, which was
quite popular with Beatles. Both Wozniak and Jobs tried other alternate names
such as 'Executex' and 'Matrix Electronics', but they didn’t like it as much as
'Apple Computers'. And the name was born. Later the company was changed to 'Apple' and dropped the 'Computers' part,
after they successfully diversified into iPods and iPhones.
The name of the
Apple Company was nothing fancy or glamorous; it was just named after an apple
fruit. But at least it was not a typo error like in 'Google', which had its
original name as 'Googol' and a student mistook the name and spelled it wrong
during registration.
How Jobs left and
came back in Apple:
In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the
commercial potential of Xerox PARC's (PALO ALTO REASEARCH CENTER) mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the
creation of the Macintosh operating system. After losing a
power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from
Apple and founded 'NEXT',
a computer platform development company
specializing in the higher-education and business markets. Apple's subsequent
1996 buyout of 'NEXT' brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he
served as its CEO from 1997 until 2011.
Today's world:
From the first
Apple Computer to iPod to iPhone to iPad, it was his ideas that made people
download an 'app'(application) before starting a work. We all have heard the
phrase- 'he came, he saw and he conquered'. But in Steve's case this phrase has
got new dimensions. It goes like this- 'iCame, iSaw, iConquered, iMac, iPod,
iTunes, iStore, iPhone, iOS, iPad, iCloud, iDeath, iSad, iShock and iRestInPeace'.
It is also an
interesting fact that the year in which Albert Einstein died, 1955; Steve Jobs
was born, almost as if he continued the legacy of innovation.
He died because of a Pancreatic Cancer at an early age
of 56 but during his short span of life he taught us what an 'i' could do. I
can only say thanks to him for making us live in an era of 'i' and I am sure he
has downloaded an 'app' to read it from where he is!!
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