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WHO IS STEVE JOBS?¿

Steven Paul Jobs, the American businessman and technology visionary who is best known as the co-founder,chairman and chief executive of Apple Inc.He was born on 24 February 1955, his parents were two University on Wisconsin graduate students, Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali. They were both unmarried at the time. Jandali, who was teaching in Wisconsin when Steve was born, said he had no choice bu to put the baby up for adoption because his girlfriend's family objected to their relationship.

the baby was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs and Clara Jobs. The abs family moved from San Fransisco to Mountain View, California when Steve was five years old. The parents later adopted a daughter, Patti, Pau was machinist for a company that made lasers, and laugh his son rudimentary electronics and how to work with his hands. The father showed Steve how to work on electronics in the family garage, demonstrating to his son how to take apart and rebuild electronics such as radios and televisions. As a result, Steve became interested in and developed a hobby of technical tinkering. Calara was accountant who taught him to read before he went to school.

Jobs than attended Cuoertino High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. During the following years Jobs met Bill Fernandez and Steve Wozniak, a computer whiz kid.Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Reed was an expensive college in which Paul and Clara ill afford. They were spending much of their life savings on their sons's higher education. Jobs dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes, including a course on calligraphy. He continued auditing classes at Reed while sleeping on the floor in friend's dorm rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the Local Hare Krishna Temple.

in 1976, Wozniak invented Apple I compter. Jobs,Wozniak and Ronald Wayne, an electronics industry worker, founded Apple Computer in the garage of Job's parents in order to sell it. They received funding from a then-semi-retired Intel product-marketing manger and engineer Mike Markkula.

Through Apple,Jobs was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields. Jobs also co-founded and served as Chief Executive of Pixar Animaton Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006,when Disney acquired Pixar.

Jobs died at his California home around 3 P.M. on October 5 2011, due to complications from a relapse of his previously treated pancreatic cancer.