The leader of the PC history

The leader of the PC history
Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011) died on Wednesday, Steve Jobs, a man like few others in the IT industry in recent years, the entire society and the way in which IT technology is used, coined. Both the design of the devices, their software - combines hardware and finally the whole ecosystem, the hardware and software - often surprisingly renunciatory to previously familiar features.
Together with Stephen Wozniak founded Apple Computer Steve Jobs, after they both wanted to succeed in the first semi-legal business with so-called blue boxes. While Wozniak was responsible for the hardware, organized by Steve Jobs all the rest with the Apple 1 and particularly the Apple II, they were already at that computers became affordable for everyone and started the PC era.
With the Mac, Apple ushered in a job the next IT revolution: What distinguished the Macintosh, was not the hardware but the software. The computer was the first graphical desktop that is sold in larger quantities. The promotional video for the Mac ("Apple Computer will introduce the Macintosh. And you'll see why 1984 will not be like '1984 '.") Formulated the claim that computer technology is no rule.
Andy Hertzfeld, who was involved in a major role in the development of the first Apple Macintosh and currently works at Google + told an anecdote to make the role of Steve Jobs at Apple clearly. In developing the Macs Jobs was obsessed with building the best computers in the world. And it was also his opinion that the computer should boot as quickly as possible. The 68000 microprocessor was ten times faster than the chip in the Apple II, but because of the narrow RAM capacities, the Mac was always rely on to load data from floppy disk. And it took. To encourage the developer Larry Kenyon, to program a faster boot-loader that Steve Jobs chose on the story by Andy Hertzfeld following comparison: He should imagine that would be five million Macs in operation in five years that will be started at least once a day . If it were possible to shorten the boot time by ten seconds, the cumulative 50 million seconds per day. He could save the life of dozens of lives, if only the Mac drive up faster. Jobs powered by Kenyon then it would be able to shorten the boot time by more than ten seconds.
There are people who criticize this motivation method of Steve Jobs as the disengagement of a Reality Distortion Field, a mood, convinced that the next computer, the new software or the ascent of a 8000m in the Himalayas is as simple as biting into an apple . Finally, it was Steve Jobs, who developed the first Apple logo on a copper engraving, which shows Isaac Newton under an apple tree. Andy Hertzfeld said, at least by the charisma of Steve Jobs. "He was the heart and the soul and the engine."
In 1985, Jobs left Apple after he introduced himself by the CEO John Sculley a dispute over the "Knowledge Communicator" was the future - and lost. When Apple developed the Newton, the only machine that "resists gravity" of the (Sculley). In Jobs' company NeXT was built next, the heaviest Unix workstation of its time. Both computers have failed lines, with the NeXT and its NeXTSTEP operating system not only as a midwife of the WWW and as Grundsein stand among others Mac OS X today as the winner.
In 1996, Apple bought NeXT in the Jobs for 402 million U.S. dollars and installed shortly thereafter jobs as new boss. Among his merits as a new / old company director is the unification of the company that developed, based on NeXTSTEP, the operating system Mac OS X and the former Newton developer at Pixo animated to develop software for the iPod. Without a hearty Reality Distortion Field, it would have done none of the disparate parts to bring successful products to market.
With iPod, iTunes, iTunes Music Store, and finally the ground-breaking iPhone, smartphones and mobile Internet so accessible to everyone, made under Steve Jobs Apple revolutionized not only the computer industry. With the iPhone and especially the iPad, the first for any usable tablet computers, Jobs heralded the end of the PC era, which he had co-founded Apple's first computers themselves.