Apple Pixar Mania

This book reveals the growing background of Steve Jobs behind his bold living style. We learned how he was influence by his foster parents, his teacher, and his friends when he was a young kid. His foster father taught him to dissemble and assemble many things so that he understand how things work. The formal school education was a nightmare to him, while he was so lucky to meet a precious teacher who helped him to get away from making troubles, and even to skip a grade. His H.P. engineer neighbor is also praiseworthy who taught him how most electronic products were designed.

At his older age, Steve was fascinating on the Indian Buddhism. He even traveled India to experience and practice the Buddha's teaching. After he returned to the U.S. from India, he concludes that science and new technologies would be the major key to improve human's living. It is not enough to only count on religions. Even so, this special growing experiences might be possible to form his hippy style.

Graphical user interface, object-oriented language, and networking, these three technologies he learned during his visit at PARC. He dug into the research and development afterwards. That was also something helped him to build up the first web site ever on a NeXT computer, the second computer company Steve founded after Apple.

As regards of Pixar, the third company he found, Steve mentioned the critical major three points to make Pixar so successful. The first is creativity. The next is technology, and finally the third is creativity plus technology. To achieve such kind of competition gap, they have spent ten years.

Until now, Apple's Mac OS X, iPod, and iTunes Music Store are still very hot on the market. While looking backwards, that was not an easy path for him. He had encountered so many obstacles during the developing process; however, that was also an inevitable process to walk on the creative path. The path to success is about accumulating the positive experiences consistently. We can learn this lesson from Steve's stories.¶

Book Information
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Full Title: Apple Pixar Mania: iPod-iTunes-Nemo-The Incredibles - 20 ans du Mac... I'anne Steve Jobs
Author: Cryil Fievet
Language: French
ISBN: 2708131052
Publisher: 2004 Editions d'Organisation