Job’s introduction to computers was through a summer job at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, California. Here, Jobs met Steve Wozniak, an electronics guru. Although both Jobs and Wozniak were both extremely talented, they dropped out of their respected colleges soon after meeting. [Halliday, 1983, p. 205]

When Jobs turned 21, he got together with Wozniak and told him his idea of a personal, user-friendly, home computer. Wozniak’s job, being the electronics guru that he was, was to help Jobs design and build this dream. In 1976, the Apple I was released. Within one year, the Apple II was released. The Apple II had built-in circuitry allowing it to interface directly to a color video monitor. Jobs encouraged independent programmers to invent applications for Apple II. The result was a library of some 16,000 software programs. [Halliday, 1983, p. 206] Jobs’ dream of a

Jobs’ innovative ideas of user-friendly software for the Macintosh changed the design and functionality of software interfaces created for computers. The Macintosh's interface allowed people to interact easier with computers, because they used a mouse to click on objects displayed on the screen to perform some function. The Macintosh got rid of the computer command lines that intimidated people from using computers.

Steve Jobs is one of the most ingenious men in America. His vision and insights into the future helped to revolutionize the personal computing industry as we know it. His goal of perfection being not only his savior, but also his weakness makes him whom he is.

personal computer had become a reality and with it motivated others to design software.

Although NextStep’s operating system was easier and quicker for many companies to use, in 1997, Jobs was hired back at Apple as interim chief executive officer. “Apple also spent around $400 million to buy NeXT Software, hoping to fuse NeXT's powerful operating system with Apple's flagging Macintosh software.”[Germer] With his return, Jobs has helped Apple regain 5% of the market share that it had lost to the PC.

Over the next 8 years, Jobs worked hard to get his new company NextStep off the ground. In NextStep, felt there was a lot of money in developing an object-oriented industry that would fix the problems companies had in developing software. Soon, Jobs devoted all of NextStep’s time and money into developing an operating system that would revolutionize the industry. However, when NextStep did release a v

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