Microsofts Bill Gates And Google - 1676 Words

Since the dawn of time innovation and progress have been constant. Technology marches forward on a daily basis. Leaving old innovations obsolete and bringing forth new ideas. This doesn’t just happen, however, something has to drive these developments. Many people will say that necessity is the mother of all invention. While there is a lot of truth in that mantra, and certainly in the early days of humankind necessity really did drive innovation. In the 21st century, however, necessity really took a back seat to vision, and there were three men, entrepreneurs if you will, that really stood out from the pack and made incredible advancements in technology. The following pages discuss the lives and success of Apple’s Steve Jobs, Microsoft’s†¦show more content†¦At the time there was no such thing as a home computer. Even being in the epicenter of computer technology, people didn’t have personal computers. Wozniak started building simple computers, ma inly just as a hobby and to have a computer of his own, but Jobs recognized, with the insight that would go on to be his legacy, that people would want a personal computer. Jobs and Wozniak built the Apple I and started selling it around town to local computer stores and the like. But by the time they had the Apple I in production Wozniak was developing Apple II. A much more user friendly machine that boasted a better operating system and could even display color graphics. Jobs again recognized the importance of this project and sought out venture capitalists. Raising almost $250,000 for their project. The Apple II turned out to be so successful that Apple’s investors decided that Apple should go public (Moisescot, 2012). In the years to follow Apple enjoyed success. Jobs however, did not. His temper and lack of experience in technology and management had gotten him removed from a major project called Lisa. In response to this he took over a small project called Macintosh. Jobs spent three years working with the Macintosh project in which he incorporated tremendous advancements including the mouse and a new innovation that Jobs came across from a tour of a Xerox plant called GUI or graphic user interface. A groundbreaking new technology that made