Still Looking Up
After taking time off, Jobs wanted to get back to Apple and his love for computers Decided to start his own company Founded NeXT Computer in 1989
First project as CEO was the G4 Cube Was too expensive and didn’t satisfy a certain market Lasted only twelve months in Apple’s line-up line-
The New Beginning (Cont.)
Portable Audio Revolution (Cont.)
In eight weeks, five million songs were sold on iTunes Took over 80% of the legal music downloading market
More Successful Changes
Still Looking Up (Cont.)
Jobs had to make drastic decisions Microsoft purchased NeXT software Microsoft came up with $150 million to stake in Apple Saved a dying company.
June 6th, 2005, Jobs announced switch from PowerPC chips to Intel chips. This would conserve energy on PowerBook and iBook