Steve Jobs and the story of Apple
Chapter 1
The garage and the Macintosh revolution
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Chapter 2
The exile, NeXT, and Pixar
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Chapter 3
The return and the colorful comeback
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Chapter 4
The smartphone era and lasting legacy
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Ch 2 · The exile, NeXT, and Pixar
Fun Fact
The first web server: The world's first web server ran on a NeXT cube computer with a hand-written label warning people not to power it down.
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exile (noun)
The state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons. Following his 1985 departure from Apple, Steve Jobs spent his temporary exile founding NeXT and acquiring Pixar.
The state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons. Following his 1985 departure from Apple, Steve Jobs spent his temporary exile founding NeXT and acquiring Pixar.
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How much did Disney pay to acquire Pixar in 2006, making Steve Jobs Disney's largest individual shareholder?
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What operating system developed by NeXT eventually became the foundation for Apple's macOS?
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Which 1995 film was the world's first fully computer-animated feature film, produced by Pixar?
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Which Apple product launched in Jobs's absence in 1993 was an early, unsuccessful handheld personal digital assistant?
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What groundbreaking software did British scientist Tim Berners-Lee write using a NeXT computer in 1990?