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Steven jobs die by the United State Goverment. Jobs was going to give people military techology. The Goverment killed jobs so we wouldn't give millitary techology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1017:B019:8C89:F90E:EED0:DE7A:7EAF ( talk) 18:35, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
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Please delete that characteristic that Steve Jobs was an inventor. What did he invent? 24.14.33.138 ( talk) 23:36, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
"He is listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor in 346 United States patents or patent applications related to a range of technologies from actual computer and portable devices to user interfaces (including touch-based), speakers, keyboards, power adapters, staircases, clasps, sleeves, lanyards and packages."-- ElHef ( Meep?) 02:37, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
The person, Ramzi Amri, cited as having commented about Jobs having had alternative treatment is a Harvard researcher yes, but a PhD graduate student, and he said "This was, of course, a freedom he had all the rights to take, but given the circumstances it seems sound to assume that Mr. Jobs' choice for alternative medicine could have led to an unnecessarily early death." The page however seems like he declared it has having led to Jobs' premature demise. [1] The article was on a purely personal capacity,and not meant to make a publicly stated judgement. Could that bit naming him be removed?
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In America, where Steve Jobs was born and lived his life, its usually called half-mast. I have never heard half-staff before. That is simply a redirect to the far more commonly used half-mast anyway. I notice different people changing it back and forth in the article. The article Half-mast says "Half-mast is the common international English term[1] used to describe the practice of flying of a flag below the summit of the flagpole (mast)." Half-mast#United_States says half mast is more commonly used, even though in the military the official term is half staff, but Jobs was never in the military, so that doesn't matter. So it should be half-mast in the article. Dream Focus 16:01, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
There is another version of the Blue Box is going around for years: John T. Draper was contacted by Woz, as his Blue Box did not work. Draper repaired the Woz box. And after that he constructed a new Blue Box (the one that is named "build by Steve Wozniak" at the Computer Museum). That was finally produced in numbers of thousands by Woz & Jobs in Asia - and most of these should have been sold to gambling mobster (1,000 for 300,000 USD). The money should have been the founding capital for Apple Inc. while Draper went to prison, never saw a cent of this money and ripped off a second time after he programmed EasyWriter for Apple, promised a job by Woz, that he never got. Also he should never received any money for EasyWriter or licence fees for this.
Anyone knows what is the truth and what is not the truth behind this story? Are there independent sources? I am more and more under the impression that especially the whole beginning (i.e. Apple/Woz/Jobs in the 70ies and early 80ies) in the different wikipedias is based upon and cited from the official publications about The Apple Founding Myth, The Woz Myth and The Jobs Myth, or that the sources used are based upon these publications, too. Thus finally perfectly PR-steered and tough to get verified independently by the Wikipedians. VINCENZO1492 12:41, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
"apparently" he didn't undergo chemotherapy or radiation. The key word here is "apparently". Steve Jobs died of chemotherapy not cancer — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:7:8500:982:20A5:DA3:8DBA:F837 ( talk) 02:55, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Jobs's birth parents met at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where his Syrian-born biological father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali ( Arabic: عبدالفتاح جندلي), [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] was an undergraduate and then graduate student, and where his biological mother, Swiss-American Joanne Carole Schieble, studied for a degree in speech language pathology. Jandali, who emigrated to the U.S. from Homs, Syria at the age of 19, was a graduate student studying political science when he met and became involved with Ms. Schieble. When Ms. Schieble became pregnant, her fundamentalist father vehemently refused to let her marry Jandali, and Ms. Schieble ended up going to California to have the baby and give it up for adoption. About six months later, Ms. Schieble's father died suddenly, and she was then able to marry Jandali. Jandali swiftly finished his Ph.D. and got a teaching position at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. The couple moved there and then had another child, novelist Mona Simpson, who is Steve Jobs' full sister. Their marriage lasted only about five years, and then Ms. Schieble moved with her daughter to Los Angeles, and later remarried. [6] [7]
Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955. [8] [9] He was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993) and Clara Jobs (née Hagopian) (1924–1986), an Armenian American. [10] [11] Paul and Clara had gotten married in March 1946, ten days after they met. Clara had an ectopic pregnancy and couldn't bear children. In 1955, nine years after their marriage, they decided to adopt a child. [12] According to Steve Jobs's commencement address at Stanford, Schieble wanted Jobs to be adopted only by a college graduate couple. Schieble learned that Clara Jobs had not graduated from college and Paul Jobs had only attended high school, but signed final adoption papers after they promised her that the child would definitely be encouraged and supported to attend college. Later, when asked about his "adoptive parents", Jobs replied emphatically that Paul and Clara Jobs "were my parents." [13] He stated in his authorized biography that they "were my parents 1,000%." [7] Walter Isaacson wrote in his authorized biography about Steve Jobs that Steve had told him, "Paul and Clara are 100% my parents. And Joanna and Abdulfatah—are only a sperm and an egg bank. It's not rude, it is the truth." [12]
Alausch ( talk) 13:32, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
Delete paragraph "Unknown to him, his biological parents would subsequently marry (December 1955), have a second child, novelist Mona Simpson, in 1957, and divorce in 1962. [7]" because it has the same information given in the last sentence of the first paragraph of this section. The link for "Mona Simpson" can to this mentioned sentence like specified in the request.
Redundancy: "At first they started off selling circuit boards." "They started off selling circuit boards" is enough. If the current sentence is currect, so is "At first they started off selling circuit boards in the beginning." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.29.64.151 ( talk) 18:09, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
There's way too much overemphasis on Jobs' biological heritage. He may have had parents with Swiss and Arab heritage, but those two cultures contributed virtually zilch to his formation. This overemphasis on biological heritage smacks of ethnocentrism if not racism. Jobs himself disdained his biological parents and loved his adoptive ones. Can we not at least show Jobs respect by making sure this Wiki reflects his own gratitude towards the Jobs family? Please balance the entries on his biological parents with more text on his adoptive ("true") parents. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.153.113.130 ( talk) 12:46, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
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I'd like to move the books, film, theater list to a separate article similar to List of artistic depictions of Mahatma Gandhi. I'll wait a day or two and if there are no objections, I will make the move. - Classicfilms ( talk) 20:42, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
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Please change "he resigned as Apple's chairman in 1995." to "he resigned as Apple's chairman in 1985." in the 2nd paragraph. Dennis Krupenik ( talk) 03:33, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Despite CEO is a widely used acronym for Chief Executive Officer, I would provide a link to the full name. I would go even further and use the full name at first. If CEO is really so obvious, then the full name should not be ever mentioned in Wikipedia ;-) That's all I can do about it, because the page is protected. 85.193.236.88 ( talk) 22:50, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Sort of related to this, There should be a change to the 3rd sentence, "Jobs served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios" I feel that is incomplete and it is a variation from what is already used to describe the same position in an earlier sentence about his role at Apple, chief Executive should be changes to CEO and mention his alternate role as a founder; ""Jobs was a founder and served as CEO of Pixar Animation Studios". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.104.150.176 ( talk) 20:57, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
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Steve is currently listed as a co-founder of Pixar in the infobox. From what I've been able to dig up, he did not help found Pixar. [1] He purchased an already founded company and became its CEO. Alvy Ray Smith is very adamant about this but, of course, he's not really an unbiased source. [2] Unless there are unbiased sources specifically supporting this claim, I believe it should be removed. HollywoodCowboy ( talk) 18:16, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
The infobox and portions of the article are punctuated in British English style instead of American English. I just traced the change in infobox punctuation to these edits [2] [3] on 17 June 2013 by User:Reverend Mick man34, who failed to mark what he was doing by adding an edit summary, as courteous Wikipedia editors usually do.
The last time I checked, the vast majority of well-established American English publications (especially those with professional editors) use U.S. with the periods, because it is visually unambiguous and hence much easier to read and parse, especially for those trained in speed reading. Steve Jobs was an American of Syrian, Swiss, and German descent, hence we use American English to write about him. Any objections before I switch this article's punctuation back to American English? -- Coolcaesar ( talk) 03:46, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
I have added a few tags throughout the article. I am not suggesting that the overall themes or topics be eliminated. Rather, we should work to trim and integrate this material into the larger context of a biography. I will wait a few days to see if there is a response. Otherwise, I will trim and integrate the material. - Classicfilms ( talk) 15:59, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
(Note: Please also see the "Trivia and OR tags" thread above this post). I am trying to improve this article for a future GAN . I originally placed a tag on the section "Innovations and designs," but have removed it until this content dispute can be resolved. I am not disputing that discussion of each of these innovations belongs in the article. However, I feel that we need to reorganize how the information is presented. I currently read the section as a long list that is written in such a way that it is distant from the overall intent of a biography. User:Dream Focus disagrees and believes the section should stay as it is. In the thread above, I suggested that we either rewrite the section in a manner similar to the FA article James Joyce, or move it to a separate article like Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci (calling it: "Innovations and designs of Steve Jobs"). Either way, discussion of all of the innovations needs to be expanded throughout the article, in a manner similar to the GA article Leonardo da Vinci so I am not suggesting the removing of overall content. The point is that the article needs to sound more like a cohesive biography with an explicit structure. - Classicfilms ( talk) 17:51, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
Should the Innovations and designs section be developed per James Joyce#Major works? Or should it be moved to a new article per Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci (calling it: "Innovations and designs of Steve Jobs”)? Please see the threads above this one. Classicfilms ( talk) 00:23, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Right now this section reads as Wikipedia:Cherrypicking that borders on WP:SYNTHESIS. It is not uncommon, when notable people die, that a great deal of media is generated - does that mean it belongs here? If so, I think the section needs a full rewrite in order to comply with WP:MOS. I've put the entire section here if anyone is willing to take it on. - Classicfilms ( talk) 14:34, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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At the time of his resignation, and again after his death, Jobs was described as a visionary, pioneer, and genius [1] [2] [3] [4] in the fields of business, [5] [6] innovation, [7] and product design. [8] The reinvigoration of the company was regarded by many commentators as one of the greatest turnarounds in business history. [9] [10] [11] Some suggested that he changed the face of the modern world, [1] [3] [7] revolutionized at least six different industries, [2] and was an "exemplar for all chief executives." [2] Jobs was also referred to as "legendary," a "futurist," and a "visionary." [12] [13] [14] [15] He was further described a "Father of the Digital Revolution," [16] a "master of innovation," [17] [18] "the master evangelist of the digital age," [19] and a "design perfectionist." [20] [21] Others characterized Jobs as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of his time. [22] [23] In his The Daily Show eulogy, Jon Stewart said that unlike others of Jobs's ilk, such as Thomas Edison or Henry Ford, Jobs died young. He felt that we had, in a sense, "wrung everything out of" these other men, but his feeling on Jobs was that "we're not done with you yet." [24]
There was also a dissenting tone. A Los Angeles Times media critic reported that the eulogies "came courtesy of reporters who—after deadline and off the record—would tell stories about a company obsessed with secrecy to the point of paranoia. They remind us how Apple shut down a youthful fanboy blogger, punished a publisher that dared to print an unauthorized Jobs biography and repeatedly ran afoul of the most basic tenets of a free press." [25] Free software pioneer Richard Stallman drew attention to Apple's strategy of tight corporate control over consumer computers and handheld devices, how Apple restricted news reporters, and persistently violated privacy: "Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died." [26] [27] On his blog, Stallman has summarized Jobs as having a "malign influence" on computing because of his leadership in guiding Apple to produce closed platforms. [28] [29] Silicon Valley reporter Dan Gillmor stated that under Jobs, Apple had taken stances that in his view were "outright hostile to the practice of journalism" [25] – these included suing three "small fry" bloggers who reported tips about the company and its unreleased products including attempts to use the courts to force them to reveal their sources, suing teenager Nicholas Ciarelli, who wrote enthusiastic speculation about Apple products beginning at age 13 [25] (Rainey wrote that Apple wanted to kill his 'ThinkSecret' blog as "It thought any leaks, even favorable ones, diluted the punch of its highly choreographed product launches with Jobs, in his iconic jeans and mock turtleneck outfit, as the star." [25] Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker asserted that "Jobs's sensibility was editorial, not inventive. His gift lay in taking what was in front of him ... and ruthlessly refining it." [30]
Steve Jobs was one of the most foremost pioneers of our time ... he made a difference that will be felt for 560 years to come
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Steve Jobs revolutionised no fewer than six different industries: personal computers, mobile phones, music publishing, animated films, digital publishing and tablet computing ... His genius was unconfined ... an exemplar for all chief executives ... a visionary ... "
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Through sheer hard work... Jobs changed the world, not once, but three times. His companies and products have delighted and inspired hundreds of millions.
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Steve Jobs encapsulated a rare union of technological genius and an instinctive and perfectionist eye for design ... his death is a major loss to the world at large
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[I]n the world of business, he will also be honored as an absolutely brilliant CEO ... Jobs was probably unrivaled in the world today in matching great ideas with savvy marketing and pristine execution
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Tributes flowed in from around the world ... Ordinary people, many of whom learned of his death on their iPhones and iPads, swamped Twitter using the trending hashtag #thankyousteve to pay tribute...
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I love the article and is spot on based on my opinion. The only concern was that the use of his signature at the bottom of the info box. It's good to know his signature since he's famous and people would love to know every tiny thing about him, but i think it can be easily misused Justborn2010 ( talk) 15:04, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
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06:09, 3 July 2015 (UTC)Information concerning Steve Jobs parents is incorrect. In the sentence "The family lived first on a farm in Germantown, Wisconsin and then later in West Bend, Indiana.", it is actually West Bend, Wisconsin, the birthplace of his adoptive father.
old: Meanwhile, their attempts to start a family were haulted after Clara had an ectopic pregnancy leading them to explore adoption in 1955.[2]
new: Meanwhile, their attempts to start a family were halted after Clara had an ectopic pregnancy leading them to explore adoption in 1955.[2]
69.136.234.9 ( talk) 02:21, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
old: Jobs's adoptive father, Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993),[7] grew in a Calvinist household,[8]
new: Jobs's adoptive father, Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993),[7] grew up in a Calvinist household,[8]
69.136.234.9 ( talk) 02:32, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
old: After a brief period at Atari, Inc., he co-founded Apple in 1976 in his parent's Los Altos home on Crist Drive
new: After a brief period at Atari, Inc., he co-founded Apple in 1976 in his parents' Los Altos home on Crist Drive
69.136.234.9 ( talk) 02:35, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
old: Bill Fernandez, a fellow electronics hobbyist who was in the same grade as him at Cupertino Junior High, was his first friend after the move.
new, option 1: Bill Fernandez, a fellow electronics hobbyist who was in the same grade as Jobs at Cupertino Junior High, was his first friend after the move.
new, option 2: Bill Fernandez, a fellow electronics hobbyist who was in the same grade as he was at Cupertino Junior High, was his first friend after the move.
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old: He was described by a Homestead classmate as "kind of a brain and kind of a hippy ...
new: He was described by a Homestead classmate as "kind of a brain and kind of a hippie ...
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Family paragraph, the penultimate passage. "Jobs proposed on New Year's Day, 1990 with “a fistful of freshly picked wildflowers.”"
The object is lacking.
What did he propose? Marriage, I suppose.
Please change to “Jobs proposed marriage to her on New Year's Day, 1990 with “a fistful of freshly picked wildflowers.”
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Ater a long power struggle, Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985.
Ater is a misspelling of After. Replace "Ater" with After
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In the quick stats box on the top, right-hand side of the page, Jobs's "Ethnicity" is listed as German and Syrian. Those are his (most current) ancestral ethnicities as he did not partake in, identify with, nor was admitted to the cultural matrixes of either German or Syrian. Ancestry is more specific as the topic to the response given (or implied) there than ethnicity and hence more accurate; therefore, "Ancestry" should replace the word "Ethnicity" in that box (or else where found). The logic of ethnic cultural matrix as synonymous with ethnicity makes Jobs's American (or some equivalent term) in fact and his nationality (in today's understanding) is from wherever he held citizenship, which would likely include at least the same, but that is not always true with all of course. 2601:584:C000:3A0:4D7F:B9BB:D744:1EDE ( talk) 07:03, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
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There is a discussion about Steve Jobs (film), a set index article listing films named after Steve Jobs. The discussion can be seen here. Editors are invited to comment. Erik ( talk | contrib) ( ping me) 15:54, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Should this be mention? just wondering. http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/18826930/apple-donates-1-million-to-rescue-workers-rsquo-families.htm http://mashable.com/2012/11/09/apple-donates-hurricane-sandy/#jXQn2CFKL8qo -- 1.34.108.230 ( talk) 10:40, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
I'm concerned about the section on his hiring at Atari. It had nothing to do with Woz's pong, he went and showed them that later after he was hired. All accounts state Al hired him just to take a chance, not because of any game. I.E. sources such as 1 and 2. -- Marty Goldberg ( talk) 21:18, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
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It is not clear if Jobs was ever listed as the sole inventor of any patent, (like Steve Wozniak for instance). Please clarify in the section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uscbino ( talk • contribs) 23:35, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
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Paragraph 2, Sentence 1, Currently: "Jobs's countercultural lifestyle and philosophy was a product of the time and place of his upbringing. "
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Grammatically correct = Jobs' Not Jobs's. Nvc wildcat ( talk) 05:36, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
You understand these are 3 different things.
The article states that he grew up in a Calvinist household. He was previously Lutheran, then Buddhist? When did he convert from Calvinism to Lutheranism??? Ernio48 ( talk) 17:30, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Reading the article it's rather a mess of his personal and professional life. Would it be wise to split this into more comprehensible sections? As it is the story reads more like a gossipy shaggy dog story rather than an encyclopaedic description of his life. I'd suggest this page needs a serious cleanup in that regard. Gymnophoria ( talk) 21:15, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
Please add to the Text that he was called the "iGod" see: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#safe=off&q=igod+steve+jobs 176.199.24.239 ( talk) 19:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
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Per Fruitarianism#Historical figures (with ref), Jobs followed, or tried to follow, a fruitarian diet for a short period at least. The quotation mentioned at Talk:History of Apple Inc./Archive 1#Name (with dead link) and Talk:List of vegans/Archive 6#Not Gates, but Jobs (with ref) confirms the widespread assumption that this episode inspired the naming of the company, so this fact is relevant enough to be worth mentioning. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 21:13, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
I edited the article so that Jobs' biological parents be mentioned first (but someone by the name Dicklyon reverted my edit). My reason for what I did was that it is a priority to shed light on Jobs' ethnic origin or composition. I find it appalling and racist that throughout the article him being half-Arab is not mentioned clearly at all. I believe this was deliberate as it is the trend nowadays to demonize anything and everything 'Arab', and perhaps noting that Jobs was half Arab might lessen that tide of anti-Arabness sweeping every form of Western media!
This is the truth about Steve Jobs! He is half Syrian-Arab! Why are you hiding it from the readers? I blindly believe that if he were half-Jewish then his biological, Jewish father would be the first to mention. I have seen this happen with actors who have 9 mixed ethnicities in them like Wentworth Miller! I have even seen an unsubstantiated claim by the stand-up comedian (of Indian descent) Russel Peters (that he's originally English) been mentioned on Wikipedia as if it were a proven fact! I don't see how one's adopted parents deserve being mentioned before his "sperm and egg bank" like mad Steve Jobs called them. This is a neutral site supposedly devoid of any form of racial bigotry or cultural supremacy. SilkySword ( talk) 06:54, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
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08:34, 13 January 2017 (UTC)Steve Jobs was put up for adoption in San Francisco, CA by his biological parents, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali (b. 1931, in Homs, Syria) and Joanne Carole Schieble (b. Wisconsin), at the age of 24(?), due to issues concerning having a child out of wedlock and the protests from Schieble's father. Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs's official biographer, additionally states that Schieble's father "threatened to cut Joanne off completely" if she continued the relationship. Mona Simpson (Jobs's biological sister), notes that her maternal grandparents were not happy that their daughter was dating Jandali: "it wasn't that he was Middle-Eastern so much as that he was a Muslim.
Jobs's adoptive father, Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993), grew up in a Calvinist household,[14] the son of an "alcoholic and sometimes abusive" father.[11] The family lived on a farm in Germantown, Wisconsin.[11][14] Paul, ostensibly bearing a resemblance to James Dean, had tattoos, dropped out of high school, and traveled around the midwest for several years during the 1930s looking for work.[11][14] He eventually joined the United States Coast Guard as an engine-room machinist.[14] After World War II, Paul Jobs decided to leave the Coast Guard when it docked in San Francisco.[14] He made a bet that he would find his wife in San Francisco and promptly went on a blind date with Clara Hagopian (1924–1986). They were engaged ten days later and married in 1946.[11] Clara, the daughter of Armenian immigrants, grew up in San Francisco and had been married before, but her husband had been killed in the war. After a series of moves, Paul and Clara settled in San Francisco's Sunset District in 1952.[11] As a hobby, Paul Jobs rebuilt cars, but as a career he was a "repo man", which suited his "aggressive, tough personality."[14] Meanwhile, their attempts to start a family were halted after Clara had an ectopic pregnancy, leading them to explore adoption in 1955.[11]
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Want to have a more realistic view on Steven Jobs behaviour. I Am Kristoffer Helming and have bachelor degree in computer science and a lot more. Steven Jobs must be seen in context of Software engineering, and Software engineering being in kind of a startup phase. His behaviour is kind of just normal for software engineering in that period, due to lack of theory and worldwide experience in that field. I am very sure everyone in such a position with that context Apple had, would have ended up with same behaviour. 2001:464A:64BB:0:A91E:AF7C:D314:DAE3 ( talk) 11:32, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
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(User1)->Early signatures seem to show his name signed "Stevin Jobs," and not "Steven Jobs" as it is spelled on his wiki. Should this be researched?
(User2)->forget it, no need for research its spelled as "Steven" from the start. you have the wrong information
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Why are BOTH of Jobs' biological parents described as Syrian? His mother was a white American woman named "Simpson". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2606:6000:F517:7300:B84C:9486:1984:BD49 ( talk) 00:46, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
The article does not list any published works, including scientific papers, by Steve Jobs, either on computer science or any topic. Is that correct, he never authored any and just went straight into commercial research and development? I'm asking a similar question on the Bill Gates talk page, as Gates also has no scientific papers listed in his article, but he does have two books. 5Q5 ( talk) 16:54, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
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In the "Health Issues" section, edit the phrase that currently reads, "Cancer researcher and alternative medicine critic David Gorski disagreed with Amri's assessment, saying,...." so that it reads, "Other doctors agree that Jobs's diet was insufficient to address his disease. Cancer researcher and alternative medicine critic David Gorski, for instance, said,...."
This change is helpful because the way it reads now describes Gorski's statement as a disagreement with the previous sentence even though it is not a disagreement. Jlcohoon ( talk) 19:27, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
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Steven jobs die by the United State Goverment. Jobs was going to give people military techology. The Goverment killed jobs so we wouldn't give millitary techology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1017:B019:8C89:F90E:EED0:DE7A:7EAF ( talk) 18:35, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
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Please delete that characteristic that Steve Jobs was an inventor. What did he invent? 24.14.33.138 ( talk) 23:36, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
"He is listed as either primary inventor or co-inventor in 346 United States patents or patent applications related to a range of technologies from actual computer and portable devices to user interfaces (including touch-based), speakers, keyboards, power adapters, staircases, clasps, sleeves, lanyards and packages."-- ElHef ( Meep?) 02:37, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
The person, Ramzi Amri, cited as having commented about Jobs having had alternative treatment is a Harvard researcher yes, but a PhD graduate student, and he said "This was, of course, a freedom he had all the rights to take, but given the circumstances it seems sound to assume that Mr. Jobs' choice for alternative medicine could have led to an unnecessarily early death." The page however seems like he declared it has having led to Jobs' premature demise. [1] The article was on a purely personal capacity,and not meant to make a publicly stated judgement. Could that bit naming him be removed?
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In America, where Steve Jobs was born and lived his life, its usually called half-mast. I have never heard half-staff before. That is simply a redirect to the far more commonly used half-mast anyway. I notice different people changing it back and forth in the article. The article Half-mast says "Half-mast is the common international English term[1] used to describe the practice of flying of a flag below the summit of the flagpole (mast)." Half-mast#United_States says half mast is more commonly used, even though in the military the official term is half staff, but Jobs was never in the military, so that doesn't matter. So it should be half-mast in the article. Dream Focus 16:01, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
There is another version of the Blue Box is going around for years: John T. Draper was contacted by Woz, as his Blue Box did not work. Draper repaired the Woz box. And after that he constructed a new Blue Box (the one that is named "build by Steve Wozniak" at the Computer Museum). That was finally produced in numbers of thousands by Woz & Jobs in Asia - and most of these should have been sold to gambling mobster (1,000 for 300,000 USD). The money should have been the founding capital for Apple Inc. while Draper went to prison, never saw a cent of this money and ripped off a second time after he programmed EasyWriter for Apple, promised a job by Woz, that he never got. Also he should never received any money for EasyWriter or licence fees for this.
Anyone knows what is the truth and what is not the truth behind this story? Are there independent sources? I am more and more under the impression that especially the whole beginning (i.e. Apple/Woz/Jobs in the 70ies and early 80ies) in the different wikipedias is based upon and cited from the official publications about The Apple Founding Myth, The Woz Myth and The Jobs Myth, or that the sources used are based upon these publications, too. Thus finally perfectly PR-steered and tough to get verified independently by the Wikipedians. VINCENZO1492 12:41, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
"apparently" he didn't undergo chemotherapy or radiation. The key word here is "apparently". Steve Jobs died of chemotherapy not cancer — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:7:8500:982:20A5:DA3:8DBA:F837 ( talk) 02:55, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
Jobs's birth parents met at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where his Syrian-born biological father, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali ( Arabic: عبدالفتاح جندلي), [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] was an undergraduate and then graduate student, and where his biological mother, Swiss-American Joanne Carole Schieble, studied for a degree in speech language pathology. Jandali, who emigrated to the U.S. from Homs, Syria at the age of 19, was a graduate student studying political science when he met and became involved with Ms. Schieble. When Ms. Schieble became pregnant, her fundamentalist father vehemently refused to let her marry Jandali, and Ms. Schieble ended up going to California to have the baby and give it up for adoption. About six months later, Ms. Schieble's father died suddenly, and she was then able to marry Jandali. Jandali swiftly finished his Ph.D. and got a teaching position at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. The couple moved there and then had another child, novelist Mona Simpson, who is Steve Jobs' full sister. Their marriage lasted only about five years, and then Ms. Schieble moved with her daughter to Los Angeles, and later remarried. [6] [7]
Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on February 24, 1955. [8] [9] He was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993) and Clara Jobs (née Hagopian) (1924–1986), an Armenian American. [10] [11] Paul and Clara had gotten married in March 1946, ten days after they met. Clara had an ectopic pregnancy and couldn't bear children. In 1955, nine years after their marriage, they decided to adopt a child. [12] According to Steve Jobs's commencement address at Stanford, Schieble wanted Jobs to be adopted only by a college graduate couple. Schieble learned that Clara Jobs had not graduated from college and Paul Jobs had only attended high school, but signed final adoption papers after they promised her that the child would definitely be encouraged and supported to attend college. Later, when asked about his "adoptive parents", Jobs replied emphatically that Paul and Clara Jobs "were my parents." [13] He stated in his authorized biography that they "were my parents 1,000%." [7] Walter Isaacson wrote in his authorized biography about Steve Jobs that Steve had told him, "Paul and Clara are 100% my parents. And Joanna and Abdulfatah—are only a sperm and an egg bank. It's not rude, it is the truth." [12]
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Delete paragraph "Unknown to him, his biological parents would subsequently marry (December 1955), have a second child, novelist Mona Simpson, in 1957, and divorce in 1962. [7]" because it has the same information given in the last sentence of the first paragraph of this section. The link for "Mona Simpson" can to this mentioned sentence like specified in the request.
Redundancy: "At first they started off selling circuit boards." "They started off selling circuit boards" is enough. If the current sentence is currect, so is "At first they started off selling circuit boards in the beginning." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.29.64.151 ( talk) 18:09, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
There's way too much overemphasis on Jobs' biological heritage. He may have had parents with Swiss and Arab heritage, but those two cultures contributed virtually zilch to his formation. This overemphasis on biological heritage smacks of ethnocentrism if not racism. Jobs himself disdained his biological parents and loved his adoptive ones. Can we not at least show Jobs respect by making sure this Wiki reflects his own gratitude towards the Jobs family? Please balance the entries on his biological parents with more text on his adoptive ("true") parents. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.153.113.130 ( talk) 12:46, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
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I'd like to move the books, film, theater list to a separate article similar to List of artistic depictions of Mahatma Gandhi. I'll wait a day or two and if there are no objections, I will make the move. - Classicfilms ( talk) 20:42, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
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Please change "he resigned as Apple's chairman in 1995." to "he resigned as Apple's chairman in 1985." in the 2nd paragraph. Dennis Krupenik ( talk) 03:33, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Despite CEO is a widely used acronym for Chief Executive Officer, I would provide a link to the full name. I would go even further and use the full name at first. If CEO is really so obvious, then the full name should not be ever mentioned in Wikipedia ;-) That's all I can do about it, because the page is protected. 85.193.236.88 ( talk) 22:50, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
Sort of related to this, There should be a change to the 3rd sentence, "Jobs served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios" I feel that is incomplete and it is a variation from what is already used to describe the same position in an earlier sentence about his role at Apple, chief Executive should be changes to CEO and mention his alternate role as a founder; ""Jobs was a founder and served as CEO of Pixar Animation Studios". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.104.150.176 ( talk) 20:57, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
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Steve is currently listed as a co-founder of Pixar in the infobox. From what I've been able to dig up, he did not help found Pixar. [1] He purchased an already founded company and became its CEO. Alvy Ray Smith is very adamant about this but, of course, he's not really an unbiased source. [2] Unless there are unbiased sources specifically supporting this claim, I believe it should be removed. HollywoodCowboy ( talk) 18:16, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
The infobox and portions of the article are punctuated in British English style instead of American English. I just traced the change in infobox punctuation to these edits [2] [3] on 17 June 2013 by User:Reverend Mick man34, who failed to mark what he was doing by adding an edit summary, as courteous Wikipedia editors usually do.
The last time I checked, the vast majority of well-established American English publications (especially those with professional editors) use U.S. with the periods, because it is visually unambiguous and hence much easier to read and parse, especially for those trained in speed reading. Steve Jobs was an American of Syrian, Swiss, and German descent, hence we use American English to write about him. Any objections before I switch this article's punctuation back to American English? -- Coolcaesar ( talk) 03:46, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
I have added a few tags throughout the article. I am not suggesting that the overall themes or topics be eliminated. Rather, we should work to trim and integrate this material into the larger context of a biography. I will wait a few days to see if there is a response. Otherwise, I will trim and integrate the material. - Classicfilms ( talk) 15:59, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
(Note: Please also see the "Trivia and OR tags" thread above this post). I am trying to improve this article for a future GAN . I originally placed a tag on the section "Innovations and designs," but have removed it until this content dispute can be resolved. I am not disputing that discussion of each of these innovations belongs in the article. However, I feel that we need to reorganize how the information is presented. I currently read the section as a long list that is written in such a way that it is distant from the overall intent of a biography. User:Dream Focus disagrees and believes the section should stay as it is. In the thread above, I suggested that we either rewrite the section in a manner similar to the FA article James Joyce, or move it to a separate article like Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci (calling it: "Innovations and designs of Steve Jobs"). Either way, discussion of all of the innovations needs to be expanded throughout the article, in a manner similar to the GA article Leonardo da Vinci so I am not suggesting the removing of overall content. The point is that the article needs to sound more like a cohesive biography with an explicit structure. - Classicfilms ( talk) 17:51, 28 May 2015 (UTC)
Should the Innovations and designs section be developed per James Joyce#Major works? Or should it be moved to a new article per Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci (calling it: "Innovations and designs of Steve Jobs”)? Please see the threads above this one. Classicfilms ( talk) 00:23, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
Right now this section reads as Wikipedia:Cherrypicking that borders on WP:SYNTHESIS. It is not uncommon, when notable people die, that a great deal of media is generated - does that mean it belongs here? If so, I think the section needs a full rewrite in order to comply with WP:MOS. I've put the entire section here if anyone is willing to take it on. - Classicfilms ( talk) 14:34, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
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At the time of his resignation, and again after his death, Jobs was described as a visionary, pioneer, and genius [1] [2] [3] [4] in the fields of business, [5] [6] innovation, [7] and product design. [8] The reinvigoration of the company was regarded by many commentators as one of the greatest turnarounds in business history. [9] [10] [11] Some suggested that he changed the face of the modern world, [1] [3] [7] revolutionized at least six different industries, [2] and was an "exemplar for all chief executives." [2] Jobs was also referred to as "legendary," a "futurist," and a "visionary." [12] [13] [14] [15] He was further described a "Father of the Digital Revolution," [16] a "master of innovation," [17] [18] "the master evangelist of the digital age," [19] and a "design perfectionist." [20] [21] Others characterized Jobs as the Thomas Edison and Henry Ford of his time. [22] [23] In his The Daily Show eulogy, Jon Stewart said that unlike others of Jobs's ilk, such as Thomas Edison or Henry Ford, Jobs died young. He felt that we had, in a sense, "wrung everything out of" these other men, but his feeling on Jobs was that "we're not done with you yet." [24]
There was also a dissenting tone. A Los Angeles Times media critic reported that the eulogies "came courtesy of reporters who—after deadline and off the record—would tell stories about a company obsessed with secrecy to the point of paranoia. They remind us how Apple shut down a youthful fanboy blogger, punished a publisher that dared to print an unauthorized Jobs biography and repeatedly ran afoul of the most basic tenets of a free press." [25] Free software pioneer Richard Stallman drew attention to Apple's strategy of tight corporate control over consumer computers and handheld devices, how Apple restricted news reporters, and persistently violated privacy: "Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died." [26] [27] On his blog, Stallman has summarized Jobs as having a "malign influence" on computing because of his leadership in guiding Apple to produce closed platforms. [28] [29] Silicon Valley reporter Dan Gillmor stated that under Jobs, Apple had taken stances that in his view were "outright hostile to the practice of journalism" [25] – these included suing three "small fry" bloggers who reported tips about the company and its unreleased products including attempts to use the courts to force them to reveal their sources, suing teenager Nicholas Ciarelli, who wrote enthusiastic speculation about Apple products beginning at age 13 [25] (Rainey wrote that Apple wanted to kill his 'ThinkSecret' blog as "It thought any leaks, even favorable ones, diluted the punch of its highly choreographed product launches with Jobs, in his iconic jeans and mock turtleneck outfit, as the star." [25] Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker asserted that "Jobs's sensibility was editorial, not inventive. His gift lay in taking what was in front of him ... and ruthlessly refining it." [30]
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Through sheer hard work... Jobs changed the world, not once, but three times. His companies and products have delighted and inspired hundreds of millions.
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I love the article and is spot on based on my opinion. The only concern was that the use of his signature at the bottom of the info box. It's good to know his signature since he's famous and people would love to know every tiny thing about him, but i think it can be easily misused Justborn2010 ( talk) 15:04, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
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old: Meanwhile, their attempts to start a family were haulted after Clara had an ectopic pregnancy leading them to explore adoption in 1955.[2]
new: Meanwhile, their attempts to start a family were halted after Clara had an ectopic pregnancy leading them to explore adoption in 1955.[2]
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old: Jobs's adoptive father, Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993),[7] grew in a Calvinist household,[8]
new: Jobs's adoptive father, Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993),[7] grew up in a Calvinist household,[8]
69.136.234.9 ( talk) 02:32, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
old: After a brief period at Atari, Inc., he co-founded Apple in 1976 in his parent's Los Altos home on Crist Drive
new: After a brief period at Atari, Inc., he co-founded Apple in 1976 in his parents' Los Altos home on Crist Drive
69.136.234.9 ( talk) 02:35, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
old: Bill Fernandez, a fellow electronics hobbyist who was in the same grade as him at Cupertino Junior High, was his first friend after the move.
new, option 1: Bill Fernandez, a fellow electronics hobbyist who was in the same grade as Jobs at Cupertino Junior High, was his first friend after the move.
new, option 2: Bill Fernandez, a fellow electronics hobbyist who was in the same grade as he was at Cupertino Junior High, was his first friend after the move.
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old: He was described by a Homestead classmate as "kind of a brain and kind of a hippy ...
new: He was described by a Homestead classmate as "kind of a brain and kind of a hippie ...
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Family paragraph, the penultimate passage. "Jobs proposed on New Year's Day, 1990 with “a fistful of freshly picked wildflowers.”"
The object is lacking.
What did he propose? Marriage, I suppose.
Please change to “Jobs proposed marriage to her on New Year's Day, 1990 with “a fistful of freshly picked wildflowers.”
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Ater a long power struggle, Jobs was forced out of Apple in 1985.
Ater is a misspelling of After. Replace "Ater" with After
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In the quick stats box on the top, right-hand side of the page, Jobs's "Ethnicity" is listed as German and Syrian. Those are his (most current) ancestral ethnicities as he did not partake in, identify with, nor was admitted to the cultural matrixes of either German or Syrian. Ancestry is more specific as the topic to the response given (or implied) there than ethnicity and hence more accurate; therefore, "Ancestry" should replace the word "Ethnicity" in that box (or else where found). The logic of ethnic cultural matrix as synonymous with ethnicity makes Jobs's American (or some equivalent term) in fact and his nationality (in today's understanding) is from wherever he held citizenship, which would likely include at least the same, but that is not always true with all of course. 2601:584:C000:3A0:4D7F:B9BB:D744:1EDE ( talk) 07:03, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
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There is a discussion about Steve Jobs (film), a set index article listing films named after Steve Jobs. The discussion can be seen here. Editors are invited to comment. Erik ( talk | contrib) ( ping me) 15:54, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
Should this be mention? just wondering. http://www.crn.com/news/channel-programs/18826930/apple-donates-1-million-to-rescue-workers-rsquo-families.htm http://mashable.com/2012/11/09/apple-donates-hurricane-sandy/#jXQn2CFKL8qo -- 1.34.108.230 ( talk) 10:40, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
I'm concerned about the section on his hiring at Atari. It had nothing to do with Woz's pong, he went and showed them that later after he was hired. All accounts state Al hired him just to take a chance, not because of any game. I.E. sources such as 1 and 2. -- Marty Goldberg ( talk) 21:18, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
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It is not clear if Jobs was ever listed as the sole inventor of any patent, (like Steve Wozniak for instance). Please clarify in the section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uscbino ( talk • contribs) 23:35, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
How can we insert this into the articles? 78.149.212.18 ( talk) 13:48, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
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Paragraph 2, Sentence 1, Currently: "Jobs's countercultural lifestyle and philosophy was a product of the time and place of his upbringing. "
Edit to "Jobs' countercultural lifestyle and philosophy was a product of the time and place of his upbringing."
Grammatically correct = Jobs' Not Jobs's. Nvc wildcat ( talk) 05:36, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
You understand these are 3 different things.
The article states that he grew up in a Calvinist household. He was previously Lutheran, then Buddhist? When did he convert from Calvinism to Lutheranism??? Ernio48 ( talk) 17:30, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
Reading the article it's rather a mess of his personal and professional life. Would it be wise to split this into more comprehensible sections? As it is the story reads more like a gossipy shaggy dog story rather than an encyclopaedic description of his life. I'd suggest this page needs a serious cleanup in that regard. Gymnophoria ( talk) 21:15, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
Please add to the Text that he was called the "iGod" see: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#safe=off&q=igod+steve+jobs 176.199.24.239 ( talk) 19:29, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
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Per Fruitarianism#Historical figures (with ref), Jobs followed, or tried to follow, a fruitarian diet for a short period at least. The quotation mentioned at Talk:History of Apple Inc./Archive 1#Name (with dead link) and Talk:List of vegans/Archive 6#Not Gates, but Jobs (with ref) confirms the widespread assumption that this episode inspired the naming of the company, so this fact is relevant enough to be worth mentioning. -- Florian Blaschke ( talk) 21:13, 7 January 2017 (UTC)
I edited the article so that Jobs' biological parents be mentioned first (but someone by the name Dicklyon reverted my edit). My reason for what I did was that it is a priority to shed light on Jobs' ethnic origin or composition. I find it appalling and racist that throughout the article him being half-Arab is not mentioned clearly at all. I believe this was deliberate as it is the trend nowadays to demonize anything and everything 'Arab', and perhaps noting that Jobs was half Arab might lessen that tide of anti-Arabness sweeping every form of Western media!
This is the truth about Steve Jobs! He is half Syrian-Arab! Why are you hiding it from the readers? I blindly believe that if he were half-Jewish then his biological, Jewish father would be the first to mention. I have seen this happen with actors who have 9 mixed ethnicities in them like Wentworth Miller! I have even seen an unsubstantiated claim by the stand-up comedian (of Indian descent) Russel Peters (that he's originally English) been mentioned on Wikipedia as if it were a proven fact! I don't see how one's adopted parents deserve being mentioned before his "sperm and egg bank" like mad Steve Jobs called them. This is a neutral site supposedly devoid of any form of racial bigotry or cultural supremacy. SilkySword ( talk) 06:54, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
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08:34, 13 January 2017 (UTC)Steve Jobs was put up for adoption in San Francisco, CA by his biological parents, Abdulfattah "John" Jandali (b. 1931, in Homs, Syria) and Joanne Carole Schieble (b. Wisconsin), at the age of 24(?), due to issues concerning having a child out of wedlock and the protests from Schieble's father. Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs's official biographer, additionally states that Schieble's father "threatened to cut Joanne off completely" if she continued the relationship. Mona Simpson (Jobs's biological sister), notes that her maternal grandparents were not happy that their daughter was dating Jandali: "it wasn't that he was Middle-Eastern so much as that he was a Muslim.
Jobs's adoptive father, Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993), grew up in a Calvinist household,[14] the son of an "alcoholic and sometimes abusive" father.[11] The family lived on a farm in Germantown, Wisconsin.[11][14] Paul, ostensibly bearing a resemblance to James Dean, had tattoos, dropped out of high school, and traveled around the midwest for several years during the 1930s looking for work.[11][14] He eventually joined the United States Coast Guard as an engine-room machinist.[14] After World War II, Paul Jobs decided to leave the Coast Guard when it docked in San Francisco.[14] He made a bet that he would find his wife in San Francisco and promptly went on a blind date with Clara Hagopian (1924–1986). They were engaged ten days later and married in 1946.[11] Clara, the daughter of Armenian immigrants, grew up in San Francisco and had been married before, but her husband had been killed in the war. After a series of moves, Paul and Clara settled in San Francisco's Sunset District in 1952.[11] As a hobby, Paul Jobs rebuilt cars, but as a career he was a "repo man", which suited his "aggressive, tough personality."[14] Meanwhile, their attempts to start a family were halted after Clara had an ectopic pregnancy, leading them to explore adoption in 1955.[11]
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Want to have a more realistic view on Steven Jobs behaviour. I Am Kristoffer Helming and have bachelor degree in computer science and a lot more. Steven Jobs must be seen in context of Software engineering, and Software engineering being in kind of a startup phase. His behaviour is kind of just normal for software engineering in that period, due to lack of theory and worldwide experience in that field. I am very sure everyone in such a position with that context Apple had, would have ended up with same behaviour. 2001:464A:64BB:0:A91E:AF7C:D314:DAE3 ( talk) 11:32, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
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(User1)->Early signatures seem to show his name signed "Stevin Jobs," and not "Steven Jobs" as it is spelled on his wiki. Should this be researched?
(User2)->forget it, no need for research its spelled as "Steven" from the start. you have the wrong information
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Why are BOTH of Jobs' biological parents described as Syrian? His mother was a white American woman named "Simpson". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2606:6000:F517:7300:B84C:9486:1984:BD49 ( talk) 00:46, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
The article does not list any published works, including scientific papers, by Steve Jobs, either on computer science or any topic. Is that correct, he never authored any and just went straight into commercial research and development? I'm asking a similar question on the Bill Gates talk page, as Gates also has no scientific papers listed in his article, but he does have two books. 5Q5 ( talk) 16:54, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
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In the "Health Issues" section, edit the phrase that currently reads, "Cancer researcher and alternative medicine critic David Gorski disagreed with Amri's assessment, saying,...." so that it reads, "Other doctors agree that Jobs's diet was insufficient to address his disease. Cancer researcher and alternative medicine critic David Gorski, for instance, said,...."
This change is helpful because the way it reads now describes Gorski's statement as a disagreement with the previous sentence even though it is not a disagreement. Jlcohoon ( talk) 19:27, 12 July 2017 (UTC)
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