Idealistic philosophy inspires Steve Jobs to make machines
IT Reporter
Steve Jobs is very well known to the Bangladeshi tech enthusiasts who are eager to run Apples's gadgets whenever these are released in the market. His name takes the heart of IT people after Bill Gates who is the icon of user friendly software, but Steve Jobs is an inventor of gadgets and hardware mentor. He brought the power of the mainframe computer to the hands of commoners. He imagined gigantic computing machines will not dominate people and society, these machines will be smaller by the innovative used of nanotechnology; by such devices, PC , iPad, iPod and iPhone, people will dominate the world wherein just clicking on is enough.
His model of business was connected The Beatles-- they were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business aren't done by one person, they are done by a team of people.
At 21 the hardware prodigy was dropped out of Reed College in Oregon and started Apple with Wozniak in his parents' garage. He was a multimillionaire by 25, appeared on the cover of Time magazine at 26.
Forbes estimated his net wealth at $8.3 billion in 2010, making him the 42nd wealthiest American. But his earned only $1 a year as CEO of Apple, he held 5.426 million Apple shares, as well as 138 million shares in Disney.
Despite his pancreatic cancer Jobs continued to innovate in recent years. In 2009 he was forced to get a liver transplant. After several years of failing health, Jobs announced on Aug. 24, 2011 that he was stepping down as Apple's chief executive.
Jobs co-founded Apple Computer in 1976 and, with his childhood friend Steve Wozniak, marketed what was considered the world's first personal computer, the Apple II. Industry watchers called Jobs a master innovator -- perhaps on a par with Thomas Edison -- changing the worlds of computing, recorded music and communications.
In 1996, Apple, which had struggled without Jobs, brought him back by buying NeXT. He became CEO in 1997 and put the company on a remarkable upward path.
One of the world's most famous CEOs, Jobs remained stubbornly private about his personal life, refusing interviews and shielding his wife and their children from public view.
In his life time he wasn't interested to tell about his personal and family life. He was given up at birth for adoption, had an illegitimate child, was romantically linked with movie stars -- was full of intrigue for his fan base and Apple consumers.
Jobs and his wife, Laurene Powell, were married in a small ceremony in Yosemite National Park in 1991, lived in Woodside, Calif., and had three children: Reed Paul, Erin Sienna and Eve.
He admitted that when he was 23, he had a child out of wedlock with his high school girlfriend, Chris Ann Brennan. Their daughter, Lisa Brennan Jobs, was born in 1978.
He had a biological sister, Mona Simpson, the author of books as "Anywhere But Here." But he did not meet Simpson until they were adults and he was seeking out his birth parents. Simpson later wrote a book based on their relationship. She called it "A Regular Guy."
Fortune magazine reported that Jobs denied paternity of Lisa for years, at one point swearing in a court document that he was infertile and could not have children. According to the report, Chris Ann Brennan collected welfare for a time to support the child until Jobs later acknowledged Lisa as his daughter.
Not only Apple the world has lost a visionary and innovator. He was described as an exacting and sometimes fearsome leader, ordering up and rejecting multiple versions of new products until the final version was just right. He said the design and aesthetics of a device were as important as the hardware and software inside.
For developing countries his products are expensive. Compared to Bill Gates he isn't widely known for his association with philanthropic causes. After resuming control of Apple in 1997, Jobs eliminated all corporate philanthropy programmes.
He was avid lover of Indian idealist philosophy. In his early day he travelled to India to meet Neem Karoli Baba at his Kainchi Ashram with a Reed College friend Daniel Kottke who accompanied him. Lather Daniel became his first colleague. He was in search of spiritual enlightenment. He came back a Buddhistwith his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing. He later said that people around him who did not share his countercultural roots couldn't fully relate to his thinking. Once Jobs experimented with psychedelics drugs calledLSD.
15 October 2011
Caption- Steve Jobs was lover of Indian idealist philosophy
* Shahidul K K Shuvra
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IT and Science Editor
The Independent
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