Knowra Steve Jobs Steve Jobs Steve Jobs (1955–2011) was an American entrepreneur who co-founded Apple and led the development and marketing of influential consumer products, including the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.
Steve Wozniak : An American engineer who co-founded Apple and designed the Apple I and Apple II computers. Wozniak’s engineering paired with Jobs’s product vision in Apple’s founding years.
Apple I : A personal computer designed by Steve Wozniak and sold by Apple beginning in 1976. The Apple I was Apple’s first product, launched while Jobs and Wozniak built the company.
Reed College : A private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, where Jobs enrolled in 1972 and left after one semester. Jobs later credited a calligraphy class there with informing Macintosh typography.
Apple Inc. : An American technology company that designs consumer electronics, software, and online services. Jobs’s career is closely tied to Apple’s creation, near-collapse, and transformation into a leading technology company.
Jony Ive : A British industrial designer who led Apple’s design teams from 1996 to 2019. Ive became Jobs’s closest design collaborator on the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and other products.
Macintosh 128K : The first Macintosh personal computer, released by Apple in 1984 with a graphical interface and mouse. Jobs championed the Macintosh as an accessible computer built around graphical interaction.
Atari : An American video-game and arcade company founded in 1972. Jobs worked at Atari before Apple, including on the arcade game Breakout.
Digital music distribution : The delivery and sale of music as digital files or streams over computer networks. The iPod and iTunes helped move recorded music purchases into a convenient online store.
John Sculley : An American business executive who led Apple as chief executive from 1983 to 1993. His conflict with Jobs preceded Jobs’s departure from Apple in 1985.
iMac G3 : An all-in-one desktop computer introduced by Apple in 1998 with a translucent, colorful case. The iMac marked Jobs’s return to Apple and helped restore the company’s fortunes.
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