Imagine a world without surfing the net on an iPad , Chatting with a friend on an iPhone’s, Listening music on an IPod’s or writing an email on your Apple Macbook.
Without the creative genius of Steve Jobs that world would have been a reality.
16 October is Steve Jobs Day. Today the founder of Apple is celebrated all around the world. His revolutionary forward thinking and perseverance to become the best has made him one of the most influential people of our time.
Here are 10 interesting facts that you might not have known about Steve Jobs:
1) When asked why he had named his company Apple, he said: “Because it came before Atari in the phone book.” Jobs worked for Atari before starting Apple and he also said that he likes apples and that they had to come up with a name by 5 o’clock that day.
2) His Full Name is Steven Paul Jobs.
3) Steve Jobs was a Zen Buddhist.
4) Jobs did not want to offer products in white. However, after designer Jonathan Ive showed him the shade “moon grey”, he was convinced.
5) Jobs purchased Pixar Animation Studios from George Lucas in 1986.
6) He’s a pescetarian. In other words, he eats fish but no other meat.
7) Steve Jobs was a college dropout.
8) Steve Jobs’ biological father is Abdulfattah Jandali, a Syrian Muslim professor of political science. Some people thus consider Jobs to the most prominent Arab American.
9) Every Apple Macintosh from 1984 to the early 90s had Steve Jobs’ and his team’s signatures engraved on the insides of their cases.
10) Jobs met Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in high school when Jobs was 13 and Wozniak was 18.
