Steve Jobs and his team of Silicon Valley nerds geniuses reinvented today’s world in regards to technology, and beyond. His name made famous the seemingly simple fruit, and said fruit took his name through the past and way further into the future than anyone could have imagined. In 1976, he and partner Steve Wozniak went forward with selling the first Apple computer out of Jobs’ Los Altos home on Crist Drive. Fast forward to January of 2007, and enter the very first iPhone.
This handy device changed the lives of millions of Americans, and all because of the man who gave the people what they wanted: an iPod and a phone in one single device.
In an NY Times article about Jobs’ masterpiece(s), Fred Vogelstein wrote, “It’s hard to overstate the gamble Jobs took when he decided to unveil the iPhone back in January 2007. Not only was he introducing a new kind of phone – something Apple had never made before – he was doing so with a prototype that barely worked” (Vogelstein, NY Times). This shows the first of Jobs’ many attempts to get the world on board with the exclusivity of the iPhone family. He wanted everyone to want his product, months before it was even functioning without glitches. And he succeeded. Majorly.
Between 2007 and 2011, when Jobs passed, he and his iPhone revolutionized the world of communicating, and furthered the future it with his legacy.
Today, people spend an average of 177 minutes per day looking at their smart phones (Bloomberg Business). This phenomenon began once Jobs’ created a device that could do enough to allow people to lose themselves in their screens. iPhones have advanced at least bi-yearly, and they only get cooler with each update. The future of the company, however, was extremely jeopardized with Jobs’ passing. He left enough of a backbone at Apple for them to keep pushing new products.
Through a mastered façade, a world of secrets, and an unprecedented family of user-friendly devices, Jobs and his crew changed the world of technology. Not only did Jobs’ revolutionize the way the world uses its devices, but he also contributed to the pitfall of every human’s posture. He was, arguably, the Most Influential American of All Time.
Brynne K McCarthy – https://bkmccarthy.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/an-influence-for-then-now-and-whats-coming/
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