Chapter 65 Jobs Chronology

1955 · February 24, born in San Francisco, was adopted by Paul Jobs (Paul Jobs) and Clara Jobs (Clara Jobs) after birth.The Jobs family lived in San Francisco's Sunset District at the time. At 5 months old, the family moved to South San Francisco. Before the age of 10, the Jobs family moved to Mountain View.Jobs attended Monta L-oma Elementary School in Mountain View. 1967 The Jobs family moved to 11161 Crist Drive in Los Altos, the house that later became the birthplace of Apple Computer.He studied in two middle schools in Cupertino, Cupertino Middle School and Homestead High School.

1968 ·When I was in middle school, I often went to Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto to attend lectures after class. · Become a summer intern at Hewlett-Packard Company. 1971 Bill Fernandez introduced 16-year-old Jobs to 21-year-old Steve Wozniak, the first meeting of the Apple duo.Another theory is that in 1968, Jobs met Woz when he was 13 years old. ·Together with Woz designed and sold electronic equipment "blue boxes" for piracy calls. 1972 · Graduated from high school and entered Reed College (Reed College).Dropped out after one semester and lived the life of a hippie.

· Nolan Bushnell (Nolan Bushnell) created Atari (Atari) to develop video game consoles. 1973 · In January, Woz found a job at Hewlett-Packard. ·After dropping out, he still sat in on courses at Reed University, wandered around, ate and lived in the dormitory. 1974 Returned to California at the beginning of the year and got a position at Atari. After raising enough money, he traveled to India with Reed's college friend and later Apple employee Daniel Kottke to pray for Buddha.After returning to the United States, he continued to work at Atari. 1975 ·In January, Altair 8800 was released.

·I studied Zen at the Zen Center in Los Altos, and was greatly influenced by the center's Zen master, Kobun Chino Otogawa. · On March 5, a group of personal computer enthusiasts formed the Homebrew Computer Club under the organization of Gordon French and Fred Moore. ·Participate in Homemade Computer Club activities with Woz. · On June 29, Woz successfully assembled the Apple I (there was no such name at the time).This is also the first computer in history that can display keyboard input to the screen in real time. · In September, MOS Technology Company (MOS Technology) released the 6502 CPU, which soon became the core of Apple I and Apple II.

Woz failed to sell a newly designed computer to Hewlett-Packard and Atari. In November, around Thanksgiving, Woz and Woz decided to start their own company to produce and sell Apple I printed circuit boards. In December, Paul Terrel opens the first computer retail store in history, the Byte Shop, in Mountain View. ·Develop the game Breakout, ask Woz for help.Woz managed to reduce the number of chips by 50.But Jobs lied to Woz that the pay was only $750.In fact, Jobs withheld the $5,000 bonus. 1976 · On April 1, signed a 10-page contract with Steve Woz and Ronald Wayne to create Apple.

· Apple I began selling in Byte Store. ·In May, Apple Computer was promoted at the first Personal Computer Festival in Atlanta and the Computer Fair in Philadelphia. · In August, Woz completed the Apple II design. In August, Atari boss Nolan Bushnell recommended Sequoia Capital investor Don Valentine, who in turn recommended Mike Markkula.Markkula then decided to personally invest in Apple. · McKenna (McKenna) began to provide marketing and public relations services for Apple.The firm's Rob Janoff designed the Rainbow Apple logo for Apple. 1977 · In January, Woz gave up his position at Hewlett-Packard to work full-time for Apple.

· On January 3, Apple Inc. was officially registered. · In February, Mike Scott from National Semiconductor was hired as Apple CEO. ·On ​​April 16, successfully participated in the first West Coast Computer Fair (First West Coast Computer Fair), and officially launched Apple II. · On June 5, the Apple II was officially released. Late summer, girlfriend Chris-Ann Brennan (Chris-Ann Brennan) pregnant.Jobs refused to father his children and severed his relationship with his girlfriend. · In December, Apple held its first Christmas dinner. 1978 • In January, the Apple II with a disk drive caused a stir at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

On May 17, the illegitimate daughter Lisa (Lisa Brennan-Jobs) was born.Jobs initially refused to acknowledge the daughter, and Chris-Ann Brennan raised her on her own.Many years later, Jobs finally acknowledged the father-daughter relationship. · Apple launched the Lisa project, the initial goal is the successor of the Apple II. After Jobs visited Xerox in 1979, the goal became a high-end personal computer with a graphical user interface. ·In October, Apple held a Halloween masquerade party, and Jobs dressed up as Jesus Christ at the party. 1979 ·In May, Jobs agreed to do a paternity test for his daughter Lisa. Although the test results showed that he was Lisa's biological father, Jobs still refused to admit it.

· In June, Apple released the Apple II Plus. ·June, Jeff Raskin (Jef Raskin) began to design a new computer, called the Macintosh. At the end of summer, Apple's first round of financing, 16 companies, including Xerox, bought shares of Apple. · In August, Apple obtained the license of AppleSoft BASIC from Microsoft. ·In October, VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program in history developed by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, was listed and first supported Apple computers. ·In November, Jobs visited Xerox and brought the concept of GUI back to Apple. · In December, Jobs visited Xerox again with Apple's senior executives.

· Alvy Ray Smith (Alvy Ray Smith) and Edwin Catmull (Ed-win Catmull) led the research and development team to join Lucasfilm and set up the Graphics Working Group, the predecessor of Pixar. in 1980 · On May 19, Apple released the Apple III. In the summer, 15 Xerox technicians joined Apple to work on the Lisa team. · On December 8, Jobs' idol, John Lennon of the Beatles (John Lennon) was assassinated by fans. · On December 12, Apple went public. 1981 · In January, the Lisa team kicked Jobs out of the project team, and Jobs took over the management of the Macintosh team. Woz survived the crash when the plane he was piloting took off.

· On February 25th, "Black Wednesday", Scott believed that the company was redundant and fired more than 40 employees. In March, Markkula replaced Scott as Apple CEO, and Scott became chairman of the board. · On July 10, Scott resigned as chairman of the board of directors and left Apple. · In August, IBM PC was released.Apple Advertises in The Wall Street Journal: "Welcome, IBM, We're Serious." 1982 On February 15th, appeared on the cover of "Time" magazine.This issue features an article by Time magazine reporter Michael Moritz.In the months that followed, Moritz was granted internal interviews at Apple to write about his book, Little Kingdom. · Bought an apartment in the famous San Remo apartment building in New York.Jobs spent a lot of time decorating, but he never moved in. Twenty years later, the apartment was sold to U2 frontman Bono Vox. 1983 ·In January, "Time" magazine selected "Computer" as the person of the year in 1982.Moritz annoyed Jobs by publishing an article about Jobs in the current issue.Jobs hurls insults at Moritz's phone message.Later, Moritz's "Little Kingdom" aroused Jobs' greater dissatisfaction. · On January 19, the Lisa was officially released, the first personal computer with a graphical user interface on the market. · On February 10, the Macintosh team held a signature party to print the signatures of team members on the inner shell of the Macintosh machine. · On April 8, John Sculley from PepsiCo was hired as Apple CEO. ·In May, Apple entered the Fortune 500 list, ranking No. 411, becoming the fastest growing company in history. · Apple releases the Apple IIe. The Apple II becomes the first computer in history to sell more than 1 million units. 1984 · On January 22, Apple aired the ad "1984" in the Super Bowl to create momentum for the upcoming Macintosh. · On January 24, Apple officially released the Macintosh. · In February, Jobs merged the Lisa team into the Macintosh team, dismissed a quarter of Lisa employees, and the combined team still has about 300 people. In April, the Apple III was officially discontinued. · On April 24, Apple released the Apple Iic. At the end of the year, Macintosh sales plummeted, and the relationship between Jobs and Sculley began to deteriorate. ·Purchased a 1,600-square-meter, 14-bedroom Jackling House in Woodside, California.This is a Spanish style building designed by George Washington Smith.Jobs lived here on and off for 10 years. It was loaned to Bill Clinton in 1998. · On December 18, the graphics working group under Lucasfilm released an animated short film "The Adventures of Andrew and Willy". 1985 Received the National Medal of Technology from President Reagan together with Woz. · In February, Woz resigned from Apple, but still retained the identity of Apple's consultant after leaving. ·In April, the fight between Jobs and Sculley intensified, and the board tried unsuccessfully to mediate. · In May, Jobs tried to drive Sculley away.After an internal power struggle, Sculley, backed by the board, fired Jobs from the Macintosh division, which was put in charge by Frenchman Jean-Louis Gassee. · On May 31, Apple announced a large loss in the first quarter and major layoffs, and at the same time announced the removal of Jobs from all positions. On September 13, officially resigned from Apple and founded a new company Next. · On September 23, Apple sued Jobs for taking away company secrets and poaching technicians. 1986 · In January, Apple withdrew its lawsuit against Jobs. · Designer Paul Rand (Paul Rand) designed the logo for Jobs' new company.At Rand's suggestion, the new company's name was changed to NeXT. In February, the graphics working group of Lucasfilm was acquired, and the new company was named Pixar. · On August 17, Pixar released the animated short film "Naughty Jumping Lights". · On September 15, Apple released the Apple IIGS. year 1987 · Rich man Ross Perot (Ross Perot) invested in NeXT. · Received the Jefferson Award. 1988 In September, Apple released the Apple IIc Plus. · On October 12, NeXT demonstrated the prototype of the NeXT computer. in 1989 · In February, the Beatles' record company of the same name sued Apple for copyright infringement. In September, Apple destroyed the last remaining inventory of about 2,700 Lisa computers, marking the end of the Lisa project. · In September, Apple released the Macintosh Portable. · On September 18, NeXT released the operating system NeXTSTEP, when NeXT computers were really usable. · Canon invested $100 million in NeXT. In the fall, he met his wife Laurene Powell (Laurene Powell) while speaking at Stanford University. 1990 • In April, Jobs sold Pixar's hardware division because of poor sales of the Pixar Graphics Computer. · On September 18, NeXT released NeXTcube and NeXTstation. year 1991 · Pixar signed a contract with Disney to shoot animated films.The first film project was Toy Story. · Tim Berners-Lee (Tim Berners-Lee) used a NeXT computer to build the world's first Web server at CERN. On March 18, married Laurene Powell in Yosemite.The officiant was Zen master Otsukawa Hongwen. · In October, Apple released the first PowerBook. · On October 2, Apple formed the AIM alliance with IBM and Motorola. 1992 · On January 22, NeXT released NeXTSTEP which can run on PC. · Designer Jonathan Ive (Jonathan Ive) came to the United States from London to join Apple, but it was not until Jobs returned to Apple that his extraordinary design talent was discovered. 1993 · On February 10, after only selling about 50,000 computers, NeXT Corporation changed its name to NeXT Software Corporation and completely abandoned the hardware business. In June, due to the decline in performance, Apple dismissed Sculley as CEO, and Michael Spindler (Michael Spindler) became Apple CEO.Apple layoffs. · On October 15, Sculley left Apple. · In November, the Apple IIe was discontinued, marking the end of the classic Apple II. 1994 · On March 14, Apple released the Macintosh computer using PowerPC, which is also the first cooperation achievement of the AIM alliance. · Gil Amelio (Gil Amelio) joins Apple's board of directors. the year 1995 · On November 22, the movie "Toy Story" produced by Pixar Company was released. · On November 29, Pixar went public. · Apple decided to legally authorize other manufacturers to produce Macintosh clone computers. 1996 · In January, Apple announced a substantial loss.Apple layoffs. · On February 2, Amelio replaced Spindler as Apple CEO. · On March 25, "Toy Story" won the 68th Oscar Special Achievement Award. In addition, the film also received 3 nominations. · On August 7, President Clinton had dinner with Jobs and 14 Silicon Valley CEOs at Jobs' villa in Palo Alto. · On December 20, Apple announced the acquisition of NeXT for $429 million, and Jobs returned to Apple as a consultant. 1997 · In June, Jobs sold all 1.5 million shares of Apple stock obtained by selling NeXT, leaving only a symbolic 1 share. · On July 4, the National Day of the United States, Apple's board of directors forced CEO Amelio to resign. · On July 9, Amelio officially resigned. · On July 26, MacOS8 was released. ·In August, Microsoft injected $150 million into Apple and developed Office and IE browsers for Apple. · August 6, Apple announced that Jobs became a member of the board of directors. · September 16, was officially appointed as the interim CEO of Apple. · On November 10, Apple released the online store Apple Store. 1998 · In January, Jobs announced on MacWorld that "Apple is profitable again." · On February 27, Apple shut down the Newton (Newton) product line. · In March, Jobs terminated Newton, Cyberdog, OpenDoc and other projects. · Apple changed the Macintosh cloning agreement, effectively ending the process of making Mac compatibles by other manufacturers. · On August 15, Apple released the iMac computer and it was a great success.With the release of the iMac, Apple began using a new monochromatic logo. · On October 14, Apple announced its first profitable year since 1995. Year 1999 ·On ​​March 16, Mac OS X Server1.0 based on the NeXT operating system kernel was released. · On July 21, Apple released the iBook portable computer. 2000 · On January 15, Jobs announced that he would remove the word "temporary" from his title and become the official CEO of Apple.Jobs was also awarded 10 million Apple shares that year. · On September 13, Apple released a public beta version of the desktop version of the Mac OS X operating system. 2001 · On March 24, the desktop version of Mac OS X was officially released. On May 19, the first two Apple Stores opened in Tysons Corner, Virginia and Glendale, California. · On October 23, Apple released the iPod. · Was awarded 7.5 million Apple options.Jobs and Apple management were suspected of option backdating because of this option allocation.The scandal was revealed in 2006. year 2002 · On January 7, Apple released a new LCD version of the iMac, the iMacG4. ·Sold the San Remo apartment to U2 frontman Bono. Year 2003 · On April 28, Apple released the iTunes Music Store, which later became the iTunes Store. year 2004 · On January 6, Apple released the iPod mini. · In January, Pixar's contract renewal negotiations with Disney were extremely difficult.Jobs announced the breakdown of negotiations, Pixar will find another partner. · In June, the Woodside Town Council agreed with Jobs to demolish the Woodside villa.Jobs kept the villa in a state of disrepair, hoping to demolish and rebuild, but was opposed by local preservationists. · Was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. · At the end of July, Jobs did not accept the suggestion of conservative treatment, and had pancreaticoduodenectomy. · On August 1, he announced his illness to the employees via email and left the company for recuperation.During his absence, Tim Cook will run the company. 2005 · On January 15, Apple released the iPod shuffle. · On June 6, Apple announced that it would produce computers based on Intel chips. ·In June, delivered an exciting speech at the Stanford graduation ceremony. In September, Disney CEO Michael Eisner resigned.This created conditions for Disney and Pixar to restart cooperation negotiations. · On September 7, Apple released the iPod nano as an alternative to the iPod mini. year 2006 · On January 10, Apple released the first two Apple computers using Intel CPUs. · January 24, Disney announced the acquisition of Pixar.Jobs became a member of Disney's board of directors and its largest individual shareholder. · In August, he delivered a keynote speech at the Global Developers Conference, and it was found that Jobs was visibly thinner. · On December 29, the investigation into Jobs' backdated option scandal ended, confirming that Jobs was unaware of the incident, and the options granted at that time were never implemented. 2007 · In January, the court ruled that Jobs had the right to demolish the Woodside town house. · On January 9, Apple released the iPhone and Apple TV. ·In April, iPod global sales exceeded 100 million units. · On June 29, the iPhone will go on sale. · On September 5, Apple released the iPod Touch. Year 2008 · On January 15, Apple released the MacBook Air. · On June 9, Jobs appeared unusually thin when he appeared in public. · On July 10, Apple released the App Store. · On July 11, Apple released the iPhone 3G. · On August 28, Bloomberg (Bloomberg) mistakenly sent out the 2,500-word obituary of Jobs, and the age and cause of death were blank. On September 9, in response to everyone's doubts, Jobs quoted Mark Twain as saying: "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." · On October 14, he mentioned his health again, saying that his blood pressure was 110/70. Year 2009 · On January 5, Jobs announced that he was suffering from a hormone imbalance. · On January 14, in an internal memo, Jobs announced a 6-month resignation treatment, and Tim Cook was still in charge of the company's operations. In April, he underwent a liver transplant at the Transplant Institute of Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. · On June 8, Apple released the iPhone 3GS. · On June 30, Jobs returned to work. · On November 5, "Fortune" magazine selected Jobs as "the best CEO of the decade". year 2010 · On January 27, Apple released the iPad. · In March, the court ruling in January 2007 was overturned, and Jobs could demolish the Woodside town house again. · April 3rd, the iPad is officially on sale. ·In May, Apple surpassed Microsoft to become the technology company with the highest market value in the world. · On June 24, Apple released the iPhone 4. ·In December, the "Financial Times" selected Jobs as the 2010 Person of the Year. year 2011 · On January 17, Jobs resigned for treatment again, and Tim Cook was still in charge of the company's operations. · In February, Jobs demolished the villa in the town of Woodside. · On February 23, Apple held a general meeting of shareholders, at which it rejected the proposal to announce Apple's CEO succession plan. · On March 2, Apple released the iPad 2, and Jobs gave a keynote speech. · On June 6, Jobs gave a keynote speech at the WWDC conference and released the iCloud cloud computing service.As of June 2011, the cumulative sales of iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch using iOS reached an astonishing 200 million units.