A Reading Summary of Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different

Think different was Steve Job’s favorite saying. It is also the slogan of Apple, a company that Steve co-founded.

Steven Paul Jobs was born on 24 February 1955 in San Francisco, California, to students Abdul Fattah Jandali and Joanne Carole Schieble who were unmarried at the time and gave him up for adoption. Two high school graduates Paul and Clara Jobs, and grew up with them in Mountain View, California. At the adoption Paul and Clara vowed to get Steve to college. They kept their word and did everything they can to make that happen. In the end Jobs went to Reed College in Portland Oregon in 1972, but dropped out the first year. After the drop-out, Jobs met Steve Wozniak and became good friends. They co-founded the computer company Apple a few years later. Apple went on to succeed as the biggest company in the computer industry. But in the late 1980s the company wasn’t doing well and Jobs was fired from Apple. Jobs was frustrated and furious. He couldn’t believe that he was actually fired from the company he created. Job went on to build the computer company NeXT and bought the animated movie making company Pixar. He had more success on Pixar than Next, and used his computing skills to make the famous animated movie Toy Story, which is still beloved to this day. In 1996 Apple bought NeXT and Jobs returned to Apple, becoming its CEO. At that point, Apple was near bankruptcy and people were not interested in its computers anymore. Steve went in to turn the company around the company's MP3 player, the iPod, followed in 2001, with the iPhone launching in 2007 and the iPad in 2010. In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and underwent surgery in 2004. He died on 5 October 2011. 

I think Steve Jobs totally changed the world of electronics. He made our modern day life easier and much more fun. Although critics say that his invention, the iPhone ruin people’s lives by making them addict to it, I think it just wasn’t his fault. For example, fire could be used to destroy things and kill people, but it could also make people’s lives easier. If people could just see it as a tool, and have more self-control, the iPhone would really make people’s lives more convenient. But sadly, people are people, and they didn’t seem to learn lessons. Though Jobs banned his kids from using the iPhone because he knew it was bad, he wasn’t trying to poison the society, instead, he saw the potential of the iPhone as a tool, as something that could sophisticate us humans. All in all, Steve Jobs and his inventions had their pros and cons, I think people should rather to focus on the “pros” than just seeing the “cons” and criticizing him. “Stay hungry, stay foolish”, “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do” are his quotes. He did stay hungry and foolish, and also he was crazy enough to think that he can change the world. Jobs really did make a change, a change that couldn’t and will not be ignored. If you want to be a guy like him, you should “Stay hungry, stay foolish” and of course, think different.