Steve Jobs: A Timeline
Steve
Jobs: A Timeline
Here's a recap of the
major events in the life of Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder who died Wednesday.
1955 -- Born Feb. 24 in San Francisco to Joanne
Simpson and Abdulfattah Jandali.
1955 -- Adopted from infancy by Paul and Clara Jobs
in San Francisco. Moves to Mountain View, California, five months later.
1969 -- Offered a summer job at Hewlett-Packard Co.
(HP) by William Hewlett.
1971 -- Meets Steve Wozniak;
the two later found Apple Computer Inc.
1972 -- Graduates from Homestead High School in Los
Altos.
1972 -- Registers at Reed College, Portland, Oregon,
and drops out after one semester.
1974 -- Joins Atari Inc. as a technician.
1975 -- Starts attending meetings of the
"Homebrew Computer Club," which discussed home computers.
1976 -- Jobs and Wozniak raise US$1,750 and build
their first marketable table-top computer, the Apple I.
1976 -- Founds Apple Computer Company with Wozniak
and Ronald Wayne. Wayne sells his stake two weeks later.
1976 -- Jobs and Wozniak
launch Apple I for $666.66, the first single-board computer with a video
interface and an onboard Read Only Memory (ROM), which instructed the machine
on how to load programs from an external source.
1977 -- Apple is
incorporated as Apple Computer Inc. and the new company buys out the original
partnership.
1977 -- Apple launches Apple II, the world's first widely
used personal computer.
1978 -- Jobs has first child, Lisa, with Chrisann
Brennan.
1979 -- Development of Macintosh starts.
1980 -- Apple III launched.
1980 -- Apple goes public, share price jumps from
$22 to $29 on the first day of trading.
1981 -- Jobs involves himself in Macintosh
development.
1983 -- Recruits John Sculley as Apple president and
chief executive officer.
1983 -- Announces "Lisa," the first
mouse-controlled computer. It fails in the marketplace.
1984 -- Apple launches Macintosh with a splashy ad
campaign on Super Bowl Sunday.
1985 -- Wins National Technology Medal from U.S.
President Ronald Reagan.
1985 -- Jobs ousted from Apple after boardroom
struggle with Sculley. Jobs resigns and takes five Apple employees with him.
1986 -- Buys Pixar from George Lucas for less than
$10 million. Company later renamed Pixar Animation Studios.
1989 -- Next launches $6,500
NeXT Computer, also known as The Cube. It comes with a monochrome monitor, and
fails in the marketplace.
1989 -- Pixar wins Academy
Award for animated short film "Tin Toy."
1991 -- Marries current wife Laurene Powell. Has
three children with her over the years.
1992 -- Next releases NEXTSTEP operating system for
Intel Corp. 486 processors. It fails in the wake of competition from Microsoft
Corp.'s Windows and IBM Corp.'s OS/2.
1993 -- Next shuts hardware division, shifts focus
to software.
1995 -- Pixar's "Toy Story" highest
grossing film that year.
1996 -- Apple acquires Next Computer for $427
million in cash and Apple stock; Jobs becomes advisor to Apple Chairman Gilbert
F. Amelio.
1997 -- Jobs becomes interim CEO and chairman of
Apple Computer Inc., after Amelio is ousted. Jobs' salary is $1.
1998 -- Apple releases the all-in-one iMac computer,
which sells millions of units, financially reviving the company and boosting
its share price by 400 percent. IMac wins the Gold Award from British Design
and Art Direction. Vogue calls the iMac "one of Spring's hottest fashion
statements," and Business Week says it is "one of the century's
lasting images." Jobs wins a Chrysler Design Institute award for the iMac
design.
1998 -- Apple returns to profitability and records
four profitable quarters in a row.
2000 -- 'Interim' dropped from Jobs' title.
2001 -- Apple launches next-generation operating
system -- the Unix-based OS X, with subsequent upgrades over the years.
2001 -- Apple makes first
foray into consumer electronics market with launch of iPod, the portable MP3 player. (It
sells more than 4.4 million iPods in fiscal 2004.)
2002 -- Launches the flat-panel all-in-one personal
computer iMac. It makes the cover of Time Magazine that year and wins numerous design
awards.
2003 -- Jobs announces the iTunes Music Store, which
sells encoded songs and albums.
2003 -- Jobs launches the 64-bit PowerMac G5
personal computer.
2004 -- The iPod Mini, a smaller version of the
original iPod, is launched.
2004 -- In February, Jobs terminates Pixar's highly
successful alliance with The Walt Disney Co. for production and distribution of
Pixar's animated films. Pixar is ultimately sold to Walt Disney in 2006.
2004 -- In August, Jobs is diagnosed with pancreatic
cancer and undergoes surgery. He recovers and returns to work in September.
2004 -- Under Jobs' stewardship, Apple reports its
highest fourth-quarter revenue in almost a decade, assisted by the resurgence
of its retail network and sales of the iPod music player. The revenue for the
period ending Sept. 25 is $2.35 billion.
2005 -- Apple uses its Worldwide Developers
Conference to announce that it is moving from using IBM PowerPC processors in
its computers to Intel processors.
2007 -- Jobs announces the iPhone, one of the first
smartphones without a keyboard, at Macworld Expo.
2008 -- In late December Apple announces that Jobs
will not deliver the keynote at the 2009 Macworld Expo nor will he attend the
event. This immediately sparks speculation on his health. Apple also said that
it will no longer participate in the show after 2009.
2009 -- In early January Jobs says that his dramatic
weight loss was caused by a hormone imbalance. At that time he said this
condition would not hinder his abilities to function as CEO. Around one week
later Jobs says that he will take a leave of absence from Apple until June
because his medical condition had changed. He does not disclose his ailment.
COO Tim Cook is to handle Apple's day-to-day operations during Jobs' recovery
period. Apple says Jobs will be involved with major strategic decisions.
June 2009
-- The Wall Street Journal reports that Jobs underwent a liver transplant. A
Tennessee hospital later releases a statement confirming the operation.
June 2009
-- Apple confirms that Jobs is returning to work at the end of the month.
January 2010 -- Apple announces the iPad
tablet computer, which becomes an instant success and
spawns a new category of mobile computing devices.
September 2010
-- Jobs appears on stage in San Francisco to announce Apple's second-generation
Apple TV set-top box, which streams movies from the Internet or mobile devices
like the iPhone and iPad directly to TV sets.
January 2011
-- Apple announces Jobs is taking a medical leave of absence, without
specifying a reason for the leave or how long he'd be away. Questions are raised
about the severity of Jobs' health problems, and its impact on the company's
stock, product development and business operations.
March 2011
-- Taking a break from his medical leave, Jobs makes an appearance at an event
in San Francisco to introduce the iPad 2.
June 2011
-- While still on leave, Jobs appears at the company's Worldwide Developers
Conference in San Francisco to introduce the iCloud and iOS 5. A few days
later, Jobs appears in front of the Cupertino City Council with a proposal to
build a spaceship-like campus in the city.
August 2011 -- Jobs announces he is stepping
aside as CEO, with Cook taking over that role. It
also is announced that the board has elected Jobs chairman.
Oct. 5, 2011 -- Jobs dies at age 56.
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