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Influences of Steve Jobs on the World

Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc. and Pixar Animation Studios, was a great pioneer and businessman. His passion towards technology began after he met Steve Wozniak who invented Apple I. His development in mouse made computer much more convenient and easier to be used by everyone. People no longer had to enter codes for each task to find what they need.

Unfortunately, Steve was considered temperamental by his employees and ended up being fired and kicked out from his own company Apple but he never gave up on his passion. I admire Steve’s determination very much because it was a tough situation for him after being fired but he never stop searching for new development in computer. In the speech he gave at Stanford University in 2005, “The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life." and "I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it." was very true. The incident gave him an opportunity to start over and learn from his mistakes. Everything may be different if Steve hadn’t been fired from Apple.

Steve Jobs found Pixar Animation Studios and bought the company. Pixar was then become successful in producing animation movies such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Monster Inc. and many more that people once thought, it was impossible and require too much work to produce those animation movies. In North America, Pixar’s Toy Story 3 sold $109 million in ticket sales over the first weekend. Disney stated “typical young adults are not a big audiences for animated films, but Toy Story 3 drew 40 percent of its nonfamily audience from people ages 17 to 24: the group that grew up with Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the other characters from the franchise”. The movie Toy Story also influenced many toy stores to have more profit in selling the toys for children to play with and Finding Nemo also influenced people to visit aquariums more often as people began to visit aquariums to find the “Nemo” fish. Nevertheless, Steve’s ideas and visions had changed the world into a whole new direction and he influenced the world and the Information Age. When he introduced the first iPod to the technology world, he changed everyone’s lifestyle, people no longer bringing boom box or radio around to listen to his or her favorite songs or music, they have earphones plugged into their ears everywhere they go, with their “pocket-friendly” iPod. Since October 2004, the iPod line has dominated digital music player sales in the United States, with over 90% of the market for hard drive-based players and over 70% of the market for all types of players. He also influenced the music industry and changed their way of selling song via iTunes, where he convinced all the companies to sell their songs for $0.99 each in iTunes Store. His idea of touch screen smartphone, iPhone, also made a huge influence on the society and the Information Age. People were fascinated by the new way of interacting with the phone using fingers. His idea of apps in the iPhone gave a lot of convenience for phone users to find what they need such as map for directions and entertainment too. Ever since apps were introduced in iPhones, it created a lot more job opportunities for many people to start creating their own apps and games such as Angry Birds that was very successful and famous where it was downloaded by about 500 millions users. Lastly, Steve Jobs was a great visionary and pioneer who will always be recognized for his great effort and contribution in changing the world and made our life much better with all the advanced technologies. No one thought of needing these technologies in our daily life but he made people cannot live without them anymore. He dared to dream big, having great vision and putting all his effort and passion to make them happen. His great success gave a huge influence and revolutionizes the Information Age. Ching Ting - very good response. It's amazing how much one individual can change the world. Perhaps to strengthen your argument, you could include a few more statistics/comparisons. For example, how many people bought the first iPod in comparison to other mp3 players at the time?

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 * [|www.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/movies/21box.html]
 * [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#Sales]