Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different is a biography written by a critically acclaimed children’s nonfiction writer and longtime journalist for the Wall Street Journal, Karen Blumenthal. The biography was published by Feiwel and Friends in New York. The main idea of the biography is to “Think Different”. “Think Different” for those who have a passion to change the world for the better like Steve Jobs. I love this book because it has great info and because I knew Steve Jobs as Apple but after I read this book I learned things that I didn’t know. I never knew he was adopted or that he dropped out of college or that he got fired from the company he created. I had no idea that he had asked for different fonts for the word processor. I think
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Paul and Clara Jobs had some high school education and promised that Jobs would go to college. A few years later the family adopted another child and named her Patty. Jobs was difficult as a toddler and his mom even questioned if she had made a mistake adopting him. Paul was working for a finance company collecting bad debts and on his free time he would fix up cars in his garage and sell them after for profit. He showed Jobs how to use a hammer and gave him small tools and taught him how to build things, how to take things apart and assemble them back together, “He was a sort of genius with his hands. He can fix anything and make it work and take any mechanical thing apart and get it back together” Jobs told an Interviewer. Jobs got a big start at school because his mom taught him to read, once in school the only thing Jobs wanted to do is read books and go outside to chase the butterflies. Jobs was very different from his classmates because he wouldn’t follow instructions and later on he was tested and scored so high that they let him skip a …show more content…
Intel Company had developed a single chip that could be used to program and at a meeting Wozniak had the idea to make a computer with the chips, but they were expensive, so later on they found a company who made the same chips for less and then they came up with the name Apple Computer and then they told Ron Wayne a former boss at Atari to come up with the logo. Since Wozniak was working at HP he showed them the computer, but they weren’t interested, so they made Wayne a partner. To start a company you need money but they didn’t have any do Wozniak got a small loan from friends and Jobs made an agreement with the chip distributors and also with a local shop to buy 50 Apple 1 computers. The company was working on the next product, Apple 2 and released it,
Paul and Clara Jobs had some high school education and promised that Jobs would go to college. A few years later the family adopted another child and named her Patty. Jobs was difficult as a toddler and his mom even questioned if she had made a mistake adopting him. Paul was working for a finance company collecting bad debts and on his free time he would fix up cars in his garage and sell them after for profit. He showed Jobs how to use a hammer and gave him small tools and taught him how to build things, how to take things apart and assemble them back together, “He was a sort of genius with his hands. He can fix anything and make it work and take any mechanical thing apart and get it back together” Jobs told an Interviewer. Jobs got a big start at school because his mom taught him to read, once in school the only thing Jobs wanted to do is read books and go outside to chase the butterflies. Jobs was very different from his classmates because he wouldn’t follow instructions and later on he was tested and scored so high that they let him skip a …show more content…
Intel Company had developed a single chip that could be used to program and at a meeting Wozniak had the idea to make a computer with the chips, but they were expensive, so later on they found a company who made the same chips for less and then they came up with the name Apple Computer and then they told Ron Wayne a former boss at Atari to come up with the logo. Since Wozniak was working at HP he showed them the computer, but they weren’t interested, so they made Wayne a partner. To start a company you need money but they didn’t have any do Wozniak got a small loan from friends and Jobs made an agreement with the chip distributors and also with a local shop to buy 50 Apple 1 computers. The company was working on the next product, Apple 2 and released it,