英语名人堂：史蒂夫.乔布斯
1976年4月1日，乔布斯签署了一份合同，决定成立一家电脑公司。[2] 1977年4月，乔布斯在美国第一次计算机展览会展示了苹果Ⅱ号样机。1997年苹果推出iMac，创新的外壳颜色透明设计使得产品大卖，并让苹果度过财政危机。[3] 2011年8月24日，史蒂夫·乔布斯向苹果董事会提交辞职申请。[4]
乔布斯被认为是计算机业界与娱乐业界的标志性人物，他经历了苹果公司几十年的起落与兴衰，先后领导和推出了麦金塔计算机(Macintosh)、iMac、iPod、iPhone、iPad等风靡全球的电子产品，深刻地改变了现代通讯、娱乐、生活方式。乔布斯同时也是前Pixar动画公司的董事长及行政总裁。[5]
2011年10月5日，史蒂夫·乔布斯因患胰腺癌病逝，享年56岁。
Jobs guided Apple to be a major player in the digital revolution. The introduction of the iMac and other cutting-edge products made Apple a powerful brand with a loyal following. Jobs also enjoyed considerable success at Pixar. He created Oscar-winning movies such as ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Finding Nemo’. Jobs’ advice for success is: “You’ve got to find what you love." He died in October 2011,aged 56.
Steve Jobs was the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. He was the largest individual shareholder in Walt Disney. Jobs’ name is associated with innovative products like the iPod, iPhone, iTunes and iPad. He was a much-respectedcorporate leader whose management style is studied worldwide. His attention to design, function and style won him millions of fans.
Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955. He became interested in computers when he was a teenager and attended lectures after school at Hewlett Packard. In 1974, Jobs got a job as a technician at the video game maker Atari. He saved enough money to backpack around India and then returned to Atari, where he met Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple in 1976. Jobs persuaded Wozniak to make a computer and sell it. Together, they developed the Mac. It was the first small computer with a user-friendly interface to be commercially successful. Jobs also built the computer on which the World Wide Web was created. He developed a passion for style and functional perfection, which became Appletrademarks.
