Steve Jobs Impact

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Steve Jobs has done many things for the computer industry such as selling the first computer with a mouse, which has heavily impacted how our electronics work today so that computers are easier to use, opposed to when computers didn't have mouses and were difficult to use. He also came up with a genius way to make computers more attractive, to add color! Shortly after the IMac G3's launch of the bondi blue IMac, Steve Jobs announced that he would be adding 5 more colors, these were blueberry, tangerine, grape, lime, and strawberry. Not only that, but he also realized that he could get more people to buy computers so he decided to make most of his products have a cheaper, but lower end

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