Steve Jobs, The Man Who Designed One Of The Greatest...

Steve Jobs, the man who designed one of the greatest technological comebacks in the history of Silicon Valley, continues to prove that he is a modern day Howard Hughes. Unpredictable, passionate, fearless, he was the person who put the smartphone in our pocket. If it was not for Steve Jobs, we would not have had personal computers, Podcasts or smartphones. Steve Jobs had a rough childhood. He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, and his dad was an alcoholic and sometimes also abusive (Isaacson 41). He lived in Santa Clara County, was a quite turbulent child, and did not care about school at all until he reached 4th grade, when his teacher Imogene Hill bribed him into learning. She saw potential in him, gave him candy and money just to get†¦show more content†¦(Isaacson 58). One of the most significant perks of living in Los Altos was that he could go to school in the Cupertino-Sunnyvale School District, which was one of the best and safest school district in the valley. When Steve arrived in high school, Homestead High, he showed an early interest in electronics and enrolled in a popular electronics class. He also met Steve Wozniak there, who was also a computer genius like Steve himself. Steve met Woz in 1969, when Steve was 14 and Woz was 19 (Isaacson 67). Woz was much more knowledgeable of electronics than Steve was at the time, and Woz was already building a little computer called â€Å"The Cream Soda Computer†. Steve and Woz later became very close friends, and soon engaged in various entrepreneurship ventures together (Isaacson 74). One of Steve and Woz’s first entrepreneurship venture were blue boxes, which fooled ATT’s long distance switching equipment, which allowed you to make phone calls for free. It worked by producing various frequencies of tones that caused the telephone system to switch to long-distance calls. Once you made a long distance call, you could switch to operator mode, and you could route your call as you w anted, all for free, and it was also very hard to trace (Schlender 35). It was very popular among various criminal elements. The two stopped selling it because they were almost caught by the police. It