Steve Jobs, The pioneer of changing the world of technology

Steve Jobs is A Syrian-American tech expert, an entrepreneur in the United States, and the founder of Apple, who took over as its CEO and chairman, becoming the owner of the most famous Apple icon in history after the Newton Apple.

Steve Jobs was born in 1955 in California, United States, his father was a Syrian Arab named Abdulfattah John Jandali, who received a doctorate in political science from the United States, in which he met Joanne Carol Schieble and had Steve Jobs and Mona Simpson, a popular novelist was adopted by an American family after the separation of parents, while Jobs was adopted by another family.

He was known for his fondness of electronics from a young age, his first innovation when he was in high school was an eSIM, and after finishing high school in Cupertino in 1972, he attended Reed College, Portland, Oregon, but he didn’t succeed at the College, failing in his first year, and decided to drop out.

Jobs sought to develop his technical and electronics skills, presented a paper with his electronics ideas to Atari, the first company of the video game industry at that time, and he was able to get a job as a game designer and then left his business for a time when he travelled to India. He then went back to continue his work at the company.

His life in 1970 underwent a major transformation as he met Steve Wozniak, a computer engineer and programmer, becoming friends and together founding Apple in 1976, which began producing computers, and then being able to produce Apple II as the first successful PC on a commercial level.

In 1984, the company produced the Macintosh, which was the first successful operating system with a graphical user interface, built-in screen, and mouse, which are technologies previously unknown. The device achieved great success and spread against Intel and Microsoft, but it was hardly a year after this achievement until hard internal disputes and conflicts happened in the company that ended with Jobs being fired from his company.

This prompted him to set up a new company, called “NeXT”, in which he took care of business platforms with advanced capabilities rather than personal computers, through which he developed a software system that was the basis of the modern Mac operating system.

In 1986, Jobs bought Lucasfilm's computer graphics division and changed it into Pixar, which then became one of the leading digital animation studios.

This all helped Steve Jobs to return strongly to Apple in 1996 after it bought “NeXT”, starting to shine again with introducing an iMac device designed to make the most of the Internet. 

Jobs introduced an iPod with a small and elegant design, but the most important achievement was the 2007 invention of the iPhone, which created a leap in the world of mobile devices with the advanced touch screen. In 2010, he introduced the iPad and then iPad 2.

Steve Jobs left our world on October 5, 2011, after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer, leaving behind a huge empire, a brilliant name in the tech world and an inspiring success story for different generations to learn from.