![]() ![]() Back in California and already interested in computers, he became a regular at the now legendary Homebrew Computer Club, along with another young man, five years his senior, with his own visions of the future: Steve Wozniak. It's for the music."īob Dylan remains his favourite artist and he has described meeting Dylan as one of the high points of his life.Īfter completing high school in Cupertino in northern California, Jobs went north to study physics, literature and poetry at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, but dropped out after one term. "It all comes down to artists," he said this week of iTunes's 700,000 songs, which can be downloaded legally for 79p a time. He grew up in northern California at a time when the state was at the centre of two separate universes: technological innovation and the psychedelic music scene that was taking over from the British pop boom of the 60s.īoth worlds clearly had a major impact on Jobs, who never seems to have lost the attitude of west coast libertarianism still reflected in his dress style - he was wearing, as usual, his trademark black turtleneck and blue jeans this week - and his open affection for the music iTunes is now purveying. Gates's position in both business and philanthropy makes him something vaguely like a chief of state when he visits places like India or China."īorn to an Egyptian Arab father and an American mother in Green Bay, Wisconsin, 49 years ago, Steven Paul was adopted soon after his birth by Paul and Clara Jobs, who lived in Mountain View in Santa Clara, California. "Also, Microsoft has extraordinary reach as a company and far more people know its products than Apple's: 400 million people use Microsoft Office, for instance. "There's an aura to being the richest person in the world that a mere billionaire like Steve Jobs doesn't have," Deutschman says. "Partly it's because Bill Gates has a lot more money," says Alan Deutschman, the author of The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, a book that recorded Jobs' triumphal return to success after being ousted from the company he formed. Yet compared with Bill Gates he is practically unknown. Jobs is a co-founder of Apple, the man behind the astonishing success of the computer animation firm Pixar - of Toy Story and Finding Nemo fame - a billionaire regarded as a visionary in the industry. It was the latest of his brainchildren to be presented over here, a year after its successful launch in the US. This week he launched Apple's iTunes digital music store in London, with a little help from the singer Alicia Keys. Steve Jobs is a man who inspires superlatives. ![]() He had, according to one former colleague, an "athletic, bouncy swagger, weight balanced towards the tips of his toes - rather like a boxer, aggressive and elusively graceful, or like an elegant jungle cat ready to spring at its prey". ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |