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Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur who co-founded Apple Inc. and served as CEO of the company twice. He dropped out of college but later co-founded Apple in 1976 at age 21 with his friend Steve Wozniak. Jobs helped launch the original Macintosh in 1984 and led the development of the iPod, iPhone and iPad which transformed modern technology and how people interact with computers and mobile devices.

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Steve Jobs was an American entrepreneur who co-founded Apple Inc. and served as CEO of the company twice. He dropped out of college but later co-founded Apple in 1976 at age 21 with his friend Steve Wozniak. Jobs helped launch the original Macintosh in 1984 and led the development of the iPod, iPhone and iPad which transformed modern technology and how people interact with computers and mobile devices.

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COMPUTERS Have you heard about Steve Jobs?

 Read the article below and then answer the questions.

Who was Steve Jobs?


Do you have an iPad, iPod, iPhone, a smartwatch or a
Mac computer? If you don’t, you probably know
someone who has one (or wants one)! Steve Jobs
made the company – Apple – that created these things
that are now such an important part of the lives of
millions of people.

He was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco,


California. When he was a boy, he had a special
hobby: he liked to take apart televisions and put them
back together again. He was a very good student in
school and even skipped a grade. After he finished grade four, he went into grade six,
and in 1972, when he was seventeen, he graduated from high school. He then began
his studies in Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, but dropped out after six months.
Deciding to quit was not at all easy. It was difficult, but as Jobs later said, “I had no
idea what I wanted to do with my life.” Two years later in 1974, he travelled to India,
and while there he learned about Buddhism.

After Steve Jobs returned to the United States, he found a job as a video game
designer at a company called Atari, and two years after that, in 1976, when he was
only twenty-one years old, he created his own company
– Apple Computer – with his friend, Steve Wozniak.
Steve Jobs later got married in 1991 and had four
children. Unfortunately, doctors discovered that he
had cancer in 2003 and in 2011 he died at the age
of only 56.

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