Steve Jobs best moments brilliantly animated

This animated slideshow depicts many of Steve Jobs’ greatest moments.

As real as possible

We took into consideration the real-life look of buildings featured in the animated bio of Steve Jobs.

Steve and Friends

The majority of cartoon characters featured in Steve Jobs animated bio bear a resemblance to real-life Steve’s friends, co-workers and partners.

Friends or Foes?

Interestingly enough, Bill Gates was not only Apple’s biggest rival but also one of Apple’s biggest contributors and investors. In fact he had saved Apple with his money during the company’s most serious crisis.

Steve Jobs and Friends

The majority of cartoon characters featured in Steve Jobs animated bio bear a resemblance to real-life Steve’s friends, co-workers and partners.

Best moments of Steve Jobs’s life: iPad presentation (2010)

"Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. … Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these." – Steve Jobs

Best moments of Steve Jobs’s life: iPhone presentation (2007)

"Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. … Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these." – Steve Jobs

Best moments of Steve Jobs’s life: iPod presentation (2001)

"If there was ever a product that catalyzed what’s Apple’s reason for being, it’s this. Because it combines Apple’s incredible technology base with Apple’s legendary ease of use with Apple’s awesome design, it’s like, this is what we do. " – Steve Jobs

Best moments of Steve Jobs’s life: iMac launch after Steve's return to Apple (1998)

"iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together." – Steve Jobs

Best moments of Steve Jobs’s life: Steve’s involvement with the Pixar team and cooperation with John Lasseter during the Toy Story project (1995)

"We believe it's the biggest advance in animation since Walt Disney started it all with the release of Snow White 50 years ago." – Steve Jobs

Best moments of Steve Jobs’s life: Steve unveils the NeXTcube computer (1988)

"It'll make your jaw drop." – Steve Jobs

Best moments of Steve Jobs’s life: Steve with the original Apple Macintosh team (George Crow, Burrell Smith, Joanna Hoffman, Bud Tribble, Andy Hertzfeld, Susan Kare, Jerry Manock, Bill Atkinson) (1983)

"Mac stands for what we are as a company, taking technology that’s out of reach of the people and making it really great. That’s what we did with the Apple II, and that’s what we’re going to do again with Mac." – Steve Jobs

Best moments of Steve Jobs’s life: Steve's visit to Xerox PARC with a group of Apple engineers and executives (1979)

"We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas." – Steve Jobs

Best moments of Steve Jobs’s life: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak introduce the Apple II at the first West Coast Computer Faire (1977)

"Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that." – Steve Wozniak

Best moments of Steve Jobs’s life: Mike Markkula's serious investment in Apple (1977)

"Mike really took me under his wing. His values were much aligned with mine. He emphasized that you should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last." – Steve Jobs

Best moments of Steve Jobs’s life: Paul Terrell

Paul Terrell of the Byte Shop agrees to order 50 assembled Apple-1 units (1976) "What I needed was an assembled and tested unit that could sell to people that really just wanted to use them and not just to the technical audience." – Paul Terrell

Best moments of Steve Jobs’s life: Original Apple Team

The original Apple Computer team assembling Apple I (1976) "What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself." – Steve Wozniak

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The following key events in Steve Jobs’s life have been featured in the animated bio by Quartsoft:

• One of the first days of Steve’s life with his biological mother and father in San Francisco (1955)
• Baby Steve with his adoptive parents (1955)
• Jobs family moving from San Francisco to Mountain View, California (1961)
• Steve’s father is showing him how to work on electronics (1961)
• Steve’s 4th-grade teacher Imogene Hill bribing him back into learning with candy and money (1965)
• Steve Jobs looking at HP 9100A – the first desktop computer in his life (1968)
• Bill Fernandez introducing Steve to his neighbor Steve Wozniak (1971)
• Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs using a “blue box” designed by Wozniak to call Vatican City (1972)
• Steve Jobs enrolling at Reed College in Portland, Oregon (1972)
• Steve dropping out of college (1973)
• Steve still attending a course on calligraphy in college (1973)
• Steve’s first job at Atari (1974)
• Steve Jobs’s spiritual trip to India with his friend Daniel Kottke (1974)
• Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak selling their stuff to get the first money they needed to print out Apple I circuit boards (1976)
• Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne founding Apple Computers (1976)
• Jobs and Wozniak are presenting their computer to the Homebrew Computer Club (1976)
• Steve Jobs talking with Paul Terrell about the possibility of selling the Apple I kits in his computer store (1976)
• Jobs and Wozniak negotiating the purchase of $15,000 worth of parts needed to fill the Byte Shop order on credit at Cramer Electronics (1976)
• The Apple Computer team assembling 50 computers for The Byte Shop in the Jobs family garage (1976)
• Steve Jobs delivering the first 50 Apple computers to Paul Terrell (1976)
• Mike Markkula investing $92,000 in Apple for about a third ownership in the company (1977)
• Steve Jobs presenting the Apple II at the first West Coast Computer Faire (1977)
• Steve Jobs is visiting Xerox PARC with a group of Apple engineers and executives in exchange for 100 000 Apple shares at about $10 each (1979)
• Jobs working with the Lisa project team (1981)
• Jobs attending the annual International Design Conference in Aspen to get inspired with the spare and functional design philosophy of the Bauhaus movement (1981)
• Jobs working with the Macintosh project team (1983)
• Steve Jobs and Bill Gates discussing the Mac GUI and future cooperation between Apple and Microsoft (1983)
• Jobs offering the position of Apple’s CEO to Pepsi-Cola president John Sculley (1983)
• The Macintosh launch event (1984)
• CEO John Sculley and the board firing Steve from Apple (1985)
• Establishing NeXT Inc. (1985)
• Buying the computer division of George Lucas’ ILM for $10 million and incorporating it as Pixar (1986)
• Jobs introducing the NeXT cube computer (1988)
• Negotiating a cooperation agreement between Pixar and Disney (1991)
• Visiting the Pixar team working on the Toy Story animated film (1995)
• Steve Jobs returning to Apple as an “informal adviser” to CEO Gil Amelio (1996)
• Becoming an interim CEO of Apple (1997)
• The peace pact between Apple and Microsoft and the Microsoft’s $150 million investment in Apple (1997)
• Jobs discussing design of the iMac computer with Jony Ive (1997)
• Steve Jobs introducing Apple’s revolutionary iMac at the Flint Center auditorium in Cupertino (1998)
• The iPod team sharing ideas on the product with Steve Jobs (2001)
• Steve Jobs introducing iPod (2001)
• Steve Jobs is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (2003)
• Jobs is on a secret meeting discussing the multi-touch technology for the future Apple’s cell phone (2005)
• Steve Jobs introducing iPhone (2007)
• Steve Jobs selecting the right size of the future iPad (2007)
• Steve Jobs introducing iPad (2010)
• Steve Jobs dies at 56 on October 5, 2011

Watch the entire Steve Jobs Animated Biography, featuring these key events in his life:

For the true Apple die-hards, here’s a bonus infographic with some extra highlights of Steve Jobs’ life:

Authors

Idea and animation: Dmitriy Nesterov
Illustrator: Helen Stoyka
Music: SaReGaMa

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