Steve Jobs Biography

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The film Steve Jobs (2015) by Danny Boyle was more than a biography on the famous Steve Jobs. From beginning to end, the film gave us a view of how much technology not only turned Steve Jobs into Apple’s iconic mascot, but it shows the scars it left on both Jobs and Apple themselves. Over the course of the film, they highlighted the changes both Steve Jobs and Apple had to take to not only stay within the highly competitive market, but to find a balance between innovative and practical technology. The road Apple has took from their miniscule attempts to now a grand company of epic proportion was shown with three specific computers that highlighted their worst moments to one of their absolute best. For Steve Jobs especially, it was a difficult …show more content…
Their reasoning for being with Steve Jobs was that his ex-girlfriend can try and get Jobs to properly support his family.Of course, Jobs was more concerned with his demo rather than his own family, so to distract his daughter from the upcoming argument, he allows Lisa to play with the demo unit of the first Macintosh computer. With Lisa drawing on the computer, it gives Job an idea to market the Macintosh saying how even a child can navigate it. Not to mention, it gives Jobs a way to keep Lisa in a “bubble” so to speak from the toxicity between Jobs and his ex-girlfriend away from Lisa. In a way, the Macintosh not only shielded Steve Job’s daughter from the toxic world that he and his ex-girlfriend has spewed, but also sparked an idea for Jobs as a way to properly market the computer to his consumers. As such, despite the critical criticism of the media, the very first Macintosh became a hit with the consumers which allowed Apple to gain a starting momentum in the industry. In the case for Steve Jobs’, the success not only helped him turned into Apple’s public icon, but also fed his poor …show more content…
The management at Apple then started to question Steve Jobs’ worth ethics, from pushing around his co-workers to disregarding his superiors’ orders, which eventually caused Jobs to lose his position at Apple corporation. Over the course of the years, with the lack of innovation and without the popular icon of Steve Jobs, this further led to Apple’s descent into obscenity. Eventually this caused Apple to rehire Steve Jobs, but fortunately for them, they come up with a plan to not only restore their names, but to bring back the trust of their consumers. Skipping ahead to 1998, Steve Jobs then propose to his audience about the new iMac the machine that both Jobs and Apple dreamed of achieving, both innovation and versatility. Unlike the Macintosh II, the iMac was a resurrection for both Apple and Steve Jobs, as it was the machine that stamped Apple into one of the best technology corporation and Steve Jobs as a genius

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