He had to skip a couple grades to get to his level of thinking. But still Steve was still very bored so he would entertain himself by pulling pranks and getting in trouble at school. His parents would never get mad until he went to high school. In high school Steve experimented with LSD and marijuana. Which is when his father started to get mad. During that time, Steve started to realize that he had a passion for electronics and technical design. Steve Wozniak was a computer technician who met Steve through a mutual friend in a garage. Later they would tell their stories of all the pranks they both pulled. They also shared their love of computers and Bob Dylan together. They both created a project called the Blue Box. It would let you make long-distance phone calls for free. The cost of one blue box to make was forty dollars and they sold them for one hundred and fifty dollars each. They sold almost a hundred but stopped after they got robbed of a blue box at gunpoint. “It was probably a bad idea selling them, but it gave us a taste of what we could do with my engineering skills and his vision” (page 9). Steve’s personality began developing after high school when he was trying LSD, Marijuana, and strange …show more content…
Steve would start designing The Power Mac G4 Cube, which was designed for real professionals. It was designed so amazingly it won a place in the Museum of Modern Art. Steve learned he had cancer in a urological exam. He approached it like he approached every other problem, by trying to fix it on his own and ignoring surgery. He eventually had to have the tumor removed through surgery. Steve saw that cellphones with cameras killed the digital camera market and he thought that it would happen with music players to. So gathered a team to create the first Apple cellphone. His cancer returned in two thousand and eight. His life was usually very private, but being the CEO of Apple made him have to disclose it to shareholders. He did get a liver transplant that same year. Steve always had the idea of a tablet, but he wanted to focus on the iPhone first. Once he finished with the iPhone he started focusing more on the iPad. Many people were not happy when they heard about it, but he sold over a million in the first month. But they sold fifteen million in the first nine months. Apple and Microsoft have always had battles but Steve hated them. He accused them of stealing his product. The iPad 2 had some changes but there was a lot of