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Steve(n) Jobs: Credo ReferenceUS computer entrepreneur. He co-founded Apple Computer Inc. with US electronics engineer Stephen Wozniak in 1976. He created the Apple II personal computer (PC) in 1977 and the Apple Macintosh in 1984. He established the animated film production company Pixar in 1986, and with its sale to the Disney Company in 2006 Jobs became Disney's largest shareholder. As CEO of Apple from 1997, he drove the development and introduction of innovative products such as the iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
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Apple Steve JobsThrough interviews with friends, former colleagues, and business associates, this program reveals the many layers of the intensely private Steve Jobs - his style of leadership, management, and creative process.
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Steve Jobs - Consciously Genius: Unauthorized DocumentaryHis passion and ingenuity have been the driving force behind the digital age. However his drive to revolutionize technology was sacrificial. Ultimately it affected his family life and possibly his health. In this revealing film we explore the trials and triumphs of a modern day genius, Steven Paul Jobs.
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Steve Jobs - One Last Thing: The Life of the Visionary Tech IconFew men have changed our everyday world of work, leisure and human communication in the way that Steve Jobs, Apple's former CEO, has done. The scope of his impact was evident in the outpouring of tributes from around the world — voiced on Twitter as well as through makeshift memorials in front of Apple stores — following his death, from complications of pancreatic cancer, on October 5, 2011.
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Steve Jobs: The Man in the MachineAcademy Award®-winning director Alex Gibney pulls no punches in his portrait of Apple founder Steve Jobs and his legacy. This probing look at the life and aftermath of this iconoclast explores what accounted for the grief of so many when he died.
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Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson's "enthralling" (The New Yorker) worldwide bestselling biography of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. Isaacson's portrait touched millions of readers. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with the author, he asked for no control over what was written. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. He himself spoke candidly about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues offer an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Steve Jobs is the inspiration for the movie of the same name starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels, directed by Danny Boyle with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin.
Steve Jobs
This book provides extensive, comprehensive biographical information on one of technology's most important innovators--Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was a visionary entrepreneur who contributed immeasurably to information technology, changing not only the way we do business but also the way we communicate and share information. His company, Apple, founded in 1976 with Steve Wozniak, eventually launched the Macintosh computer in 1984, with a graphical user interface that competed with the early versions of Microsoft Windows. This reference biography sheds light on Jobs's departure from Apple in 1985, his extraordinary comeback in 1997, and his innovations in the meantime, which included the founding of the computer animation company Pixar. Jobs and Apple went on to launch the iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, and the iPad. Author Michael Becraft has distilled the vast literature on Jobs into a concise but vivid portrait of the man, his vision, the controversies that have swirled around him, and his lasting impact on business, culture, and society. Arranged chronologically, the book includes extensive primary sources and is written to be accessible to a wide range of readers. Additionally, it incorporates images that heighten reader engagement, provides a timeline for referencing Jobs's achievements across his lifetime, and supplies an extensive bibliography for those seeking original source documents. Provides detailed biographical information that benefits and appeals to a wide audience Includes not only praise for Jobs but criticism to offer a balanced portrait Incorporates information from Jobs's speeches and writings Includes charts and graphs related to home computing and Apple in comparison to competitors
Steve Jobs: Apple and IPod Wizard
Discusses the life and achievements of Steve Jobs, discussing his childhood, education, family, and influence.
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Apple was sweeter when Steve Jobs held sway: Company illustrates contrasting attitudes to organizational changeThis paper observes that Apple illustrates the right and wrong ways to bring about organizational change, and emphasizes the key role of personalities in the process.
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Innovate Different: The Legacy of Steve JobsWith the death of Apple CEO Steven Jobs on October 5, the world lost an icon, a man who had come to stand for innovation, creativity, and technology tools that reflected a passion for zen-like simplicity and flawless user experience. Apple's approach to innovation is itself radically innovative -- in its focus on complete user experiences rather than product features, in its understanding of design as fundamentally functional rather than purely aesthetic, in its ability to imagine what users will want and then sell consumers on that vision, in its willingness to cannibalize its own product lines in pursuit of the next breakthrough. This approach upends the popular paradigm of user-centered innovation, which suggests that sustainable innovation should rely on research with users to find out what they need. Apple will be at the forefront of a revolution, looking ahead to the next innovation even as it guts the market for its own core products, although this time, the company will have to find its way without Jobs's guidance.
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Steve Jobs — Who blended art with technologySteve Jobs is well known as the creator of the famous Apple brand of computers and consumer products known for their user friendly interface and aesthetic design. In his short life he transformed a range of industries including personal computing, publishing, animated movies, music distribution, mobile phones, and retailing. He was a charismatic inspirational leader of groups of engineers who designed the products he visualized. He was also a skilled negotiator and a genius in marketing. In this article, we present a brief overview of his life.