IDEA’S BROUGHT TO LIFEBy Stephen Retlewski

DREAMS & IDEASSteve Jobs for example, is one person who had nothing but an idea before he made the first personal computer.• A lot of people now a days always seem to doubt themselves from the

beginning and don’t believe in themselves. • They have dreams or ideas but they don’t go through with them and

sometimes work jobs where they don’t like going into work everyday. • We have to start fulfilling our dreams and not follow what everyone wants

us to do.

CREATING THE FIRST APPLE COMPUTER

• After Steve Jobs returned to the U.S., he later renewed his friendship with Wozniak.

• Wozniak was trying to build a small computer. Wozniak thought of this as a hobby but the visionary Jobs grasped the marketing potential of such a device and convinced Wozniak to go into business with him.

• In 1975, Jobs and Wozniak set up shop in Jobs' parents' garage and began working on the prototype of the Apple I.

• To generate the $1,350 in capital they used to start Apple, Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen microbus, and Steve Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard calculator.

PIXAR ANIMATION STUDIOS• Steve Jobs purchased Pixar Animation Studios from George Lucas in 1986. • He than later cut a three-picture deal with Disney and set out to create

the first ever computer-animated feature film. This film took four years to create and is known as Toy Story.

• This movie was a huge success which released in November 1995. In 1996 Jobs took Pixar public and by the end of the first day of trading his 80 percent share of the company was worth $1 billion.

SELLING MOST OF PIXAR STOCK• A little after Pixar was on the stock

market, Apple bought NeXT for $400 million and re-appointed Jobs to Apple’s board of directors as an advisor to Apple chairman and CEO Gilbert F. Amelio. This was due to company failing to develop a next generation Macintosh operating system. They hoped that Jobs could turn the company around in the right direction.

JOBS TAKING OVER AS INTERIM CEO

• In the end of March 1997 Apple had announced that hey had a quarterly loss of $708 million. Three months after Amelio resigned and Jobs took over as interim CEO. Steve struck a deal with Microsoft to help ensure Apple’s survival. Microsoft invested $150 million for a nonvoting minority stake in Apple. The companies agreed to cooperate on several sales and technology fronts.

• Jobs would later install the G3 PowerPC microprocessor in all Apple computers, making them faster than competing Pentium PCs. He also helped develop the iMac, a new line of affordable home desktops which debuted in August 1998, which made $5.9 billion.

iPod

iTunes Store

iPad

iPhone

Over the next decade Apple had created a series of revolutionary products. Some of these products were the:• iPod which was created

in 2001 • Apple iTunes Store was

created in 2003 • iPhone was made in

2007• iPad was released in

2010

Apple Products

MAKING AN IDEA BECOME REALITY

• Although Steve Jobs did not have a lot of money at first he had an idea that now is spread worldwide. Allowing citizens to have computer access in their own homes.

• His ideas are what changed the future into creating the fast pace life style we have today. At the end of the day if you want to be successful in anything you do• you must first put in all of your effort• second you may have to make sacrifices• last but not least you must believe in yourself to accomplish your goals.

• So when you are trying to make your ideas and dreams become a reality remember you are your own biggest critic.