Steve Jobs Talks About The iPhone 4 Problems

At the press conference held yesterday by Apple, Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple said that all the users which have reception problems with their iPhones 4 will receive a free case in order to eliminate the problem. The testing performed at Apple laboratories showed indeed that iPhone 4 dropped more calls than the previous model, iPhone 3GS.

The head of Apple asked the journalists and other individuals which want to put Apple down to reconsider their thoughts. It seems that everytime when a big company has some troubles, other persons and companies try to tear it down. This happened with Google also and other big companies, which do something for the future of the technology. But what do the companies that speak about Apple and Google as bad examples? Nothing, besides creating all sort of rumors and trying to redirect the attention of the public towards only the problems a certain company had during the years.

At the end of the conference, Steve Jobs declared what was presented above. The news comes from CNET. Not everybody is happy with the decision of getting a case, even if it’s free, but this is the optimal solution considered by Apple. Apple will pay from 3 dollars to 5 dollars to design a case for the smartphones and these will be distributed for free to the customers which experienced problems with their phones. This will be around 180 million dollars. The cost is estimated if Apple will continue to sell bad smartphones from this summer on till the next summer, totalizing let’s say 36 million units.

Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the co-founder and CEO (General Manager) at Apple Computer and CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by the animation studio, Disney. He is currently the largest shareholder of Disney and on the Board of Directors of Disney. Jobs is considered the most influential figure of the both computers and entertainment industry.

Jobs’s business contributed to the myth of intelligent and individualistic entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, which is concerned about the product design and the crucial importance that a product has, which attracts winning customers. His work developing products that are both functional and elegant earned him a reputation that many fans refer to.

Together with co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, Jobs helped popularize the personal computer in the late ’70s. In the early 80s, still working at Apple, Jobs was among the first who noticed the commercial success that graphical interfaces operated via a mouse may have. After losing the power struggle with board directors of Apple in 1985, Jobs founded NeXT, a company that develops a specialized computer platform for higher education and business market. In 1997 took place the acquisition of NeXT by Apple, which brought Jobs back to the company he founded.

Jobs was born in San Francisco, was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs in Mountain View, Santa Clara, California, receiving the name of Steven Paul. Paul and Clara later adopted a little girl,  Patti. His biological parents are Abdulfattah Janda, a Syrian Muslim student, who then became professor of political sciences and Joanne Simpson, an American student who became a speech therapist. His father married and had a daughter, the novelist Mona Simpson, the biological sister of Steve Jobs. Steve attended the high school in Cupertino, California, attending after-school lectures at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, California.

Soon he was employed by the company, in the summer, working with Steve Wozniak. In 1972, Jobs graduated from high school and enrolled at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon. Although he quit after only one semester, he continued to attend some courses such as calligraphy. Jobs later said “If I never abandoned that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces proportionally spaced.

In the fall of 1974, Jobs returned to California where he began to attend to meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with Steve Wozniak. Desiring to raise money for a spiritual retreat in India, he gets employeed as a technician at Atari, a company producing video games. Jobs travels in India, together with a friend from college, Daniel Kottke – later became the first employee of Apple – in seeking spiritual enlightenment. He returned convinced Buddhist, his head shaved and wearing Indian clothes. In that time, he experimented some drugs, telling us later about his experiences with LSD: “one of the two or three most important things we did.” He said that those around him who does not share its counterculture roots can not fully understand his way of thinking.

He returned to his old job at Atari where he was tasked to create a circuit for the video game Breakout. According to Nolan Bushnell, Atari-founder, Atari has offered $ 100 for each chip in the device. Jobs was not interested in tours and have little knowledge about their design so he concluded a deal with Wozniak, to share the bonus with it, if he manages to reduce the number of chips. To the amazement of Atari, Wozniak managed to reduce by 50 the number of chips, a design which is close to the impossibility to reproduce it on an assembly line.

In 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne and later, with financing from a semi-retired Intel product marketing manager and QA engineer “Mike” Markkula Jr., Apple was founded. Prior to co-establish Apple, Wozniak was hacker. Jobs and Wozniak were friends for years, they met in 1971 when their mutual friend Bill Fernandez presented the young man of 21 years, Wozniak to Jobs, then aged 16. Steve Jobs persuaded Wozniak to assemble a computer and to sell it. As Apple has continued to expand, the company began looking for an experienced manager to effectively manage its development. In 1978, Apple hired Mike Scott from National Semiconductor for the post of CEO (chief executive), for what it proved to be several difficult years.