Cảm ơn Quý vị và God Bless, Ông. Việc làm

Steve Jobs và Apple

Thay vì viết về một địa phương (và trên toàn thế giới) công nghệ biểu tượng, Ông. Steve Jobs, và tất cả các thành tựu của ông trong cuộc sống của ông đã làm cho sự khác biệt sáng tạo trong cuộc sống hàng ngày của chúng ta, Tôi sẽ có văn bản của ông. Việc làm’ tác động trong cuộc sống của tôi lớn lên như một đứa trẻ nhập cư và giáo dục mới của tôi trong các quốc gia mới. Tôi rất biết ơn và thậm chí đã có đặc quyền trở thành một cư dân ở San Francisco Bay Area— diễn ra sáng kiến ​​và avant garde-— nhà ban đầu và đúng với một trong những công ty công nghệ quen thuộc nhất của: Táo, Inc.

Khi tôi 11 năm tuổi ở trường trung học (6thứ hạng), đây là lần đầu tiên mà nhà trường giới thiệu tôi với các máy tính cá nhân tại lớp học đánh máy của tôi. Mẹ tôi muốn tôi phải học làm thế nào để gõ ở tuổi trẻ như cô hình dung ra rằng khi tôi lớn lên rằng thế giới thực sẽ được điều hành bởi máy có bàn phím trên chúng. Cô đã cố gắng dạy tôi làm thế nào để loại mình bằng cách sử dụng một máy đánh chữ điện tử, nhưng tôi là thiên anh hùng ca nghiêm trọng gãy sau đó. May mắn có một lớp học đánh máy trong trường trung học và ghi danh tôi đi mà lớp học.

This was back in 1988, where personal computers were still somewhat new to the general public, as well as getting slowly integrated in the California¹ educational technology system. On the first day of keyboarding class, I learned that we wouldn’t be learning how to type by using a typewriter or those electronic word processor machines. Instead, we would be learning how to type using personal computers with a typing software. I can even remember the model of that personal computer that my school began using in their systems. It was the old yet innovated (back then) system known as the Apple IIGS².

The Apple IIGS PC system was the major choice of computers for educational technology among the schools in the state of California, especially the Bay Area³. My middle school’s computer labs and the library were all equipped with Apple IIGS computers. I practiced my typing using Apple IIGS and eventually was also introduced to educational computer games⁴. Eventually when high school came, our core curriculum teachers⁵ took advantage of the brand-new Macintosh PCs with new innovative peripherals and software such as the PC projector, scanner and the HyperCard application system as part of their teaching methods. I even remembered creating our class projects using the HyperCard system, and the way the teachers presented their lessons with this innovative computer system really helped, as well as altered, the traditional study methods that we were used to back then (through textbooks and note-taking). I remember scoring really high grades from classes who took advantage of the Mac systems rather than just the traditional blackboard and overhead projector systems.

I was going to be a devoted Apple PC system disciple until my father introduced my siblings and me to Microsoft OS-powered PCs, which was a lot more affordable but a bit more complex than the Apple systems. This also helped me shaped in to being a nerdette that I am today. Windows PC at home and Apple PC in school. Best of both worlds could bring me to success. Somewhat. I even planned to own both a Windows PC-powered system and a Mac system, but what really got me stuck to the Windows PC was obviously the price. Apple products are truly expensive, even before the company launched the hot-selling iPod mp3 player series, and yet their OS were easier to learn than the complex DOS OS (eventually replaced by Windows OS in the future).

Although I’ve stated before that I’m not much of a huge Apple fan than most people who easily got in to the trend, but I do have to give my praises and credibility to two men who helped shaped innovations to our educational technology: Steve Jobs và Steve Wozniak— the two co-founders of Apple who started their small business in a garage that became a multi-billion dollar company. Their smarts and expertise from the back end to the front really helped changed everyday lives of the general public around the world, but because Mr. Jobs handled the front while Mr. Wozniak handled the back, everyone around the world were more familiar with Mr. Jobs and his cutting-edge methods and ideals— the face behind Apple, Inc. He had a lot of great ideas that would make our lives convenient with the latest technology, but what set him apart from others was that he made those ideas become reality. The first products Apple produced were first introduced to our schools and other learning institutes starting at the home state of California before they became widespread throughout the country and the world. Somehow for me, Mr. Jobs was one of the reasons why I have pride of being a homegrown Bay Area resident. He, Mr. Wozniak and Apple helped give the San Francisco Bay Area its own definition of greatness and helped put the entire area— especially the area of the Bay that we now know as Silicon Valley— in to the map and became a household name.

Although Apple now became a mainstream trend because of the MacBooks, iMacs, iPhones, iPods, iPads and the iTunes, I still find Apple synonymous with our high-class educational technology system.⁶ I also had the opportunity to attend an open forum back in college when Mr. Jobs was one of the guest speakers, speaking about the future of our educational system, though I didn’t get a chance to speak to him in person afterwards. My father though was the luckier one. He is a finance director of our county office of education and attended various education-based conferences and some years before Mr. Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer that my father had the opportunity to meet Mr. Jobs himself (he was also one of the guest speakers at those conferences). He even had Mr. Việc làm’ business card and became one of his business contacts regarding the technology used throughout our schools and universities⁷.

Last August, Mr. Jobs stepped down from Apple. Right then it Ôngs a sign for my family and I that the icon’s health was failing big time that the time was near for him to leave us for a better place up there somewhere. Even after he was diagnosed, he still kept going with his position and his ideals with the company and its products. His face and presence was still strong throughout the Apple Expo events that the company held year after year. Trong ngắn hạn, Mr. Việc làm, flat-out, is synonymous with Apple. Now this is what I truly call true dedication to his creations, right from the ground up at a small garage.

Two months later after he resigned, Ông. Jobs left us and now the future is uncertain for Mr. Wozniak and Apple.

Ông. Jobs and Mr. Wozniak were true-blue, homegrown Bay Area boys.⁸ Neither of them have college degrees that would probably disqualify them from getting solid high-paying jobs, they’ve used unconventional methods starting from nothing to big names that they were today. It gave many of us Americans⁹ a different outlook on how to survive and become successful in life and helped us determine that college degree or not, if you put your mind to your goals, you can accomplish anything.

Thank you for my childhood, Ông. Việc làm. Thank you for making my childhood education as cutting-edge and innovative as you can. Thank you for making the lives of everyone around the world a lot more convenient, if not just being trendy. Thank you for your simple introduction to personal computers to children back in the late years of the 20th Century starting with the Apple II computers installed in our schools. Thank you for making the Bay Area the greatest place to live in and to give California its pure economic greatness¹⁰. Thank you for the i-series of products from the iPod to the iPad. Thank you for making the lives of everyone around the world a whole lot easier with all your innovations.

Thank you and God Bless you, Ông. Việc làm. May you rest in peace.

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1. or the Bay Area? [↩]
2. It was discontinued in the early 90s and were replaced by the more advanced/upgraded versions of the Macintosh (now known simply as Mac)… [↩]
3. Cupertino, which is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area, is the homebase of Apple. [↩]
4. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego và The Oregon Trail were my favorite games back then. [↩]
5. primarily my English 2 teacher and my world history/social science teacher [↩]
6. I guess that’s why I don’t really dig their latest products because they were more trendy rather than practical (though maybe practical to some others). [↩]
7. UC Berkeley, vv. [↩]
8. Mr. Jobs was born in San Francisco and raised in Cupertino, Mr. Wozniak was born in San Jose [↩]
9. well, maybe just Californians? [↩]
10. though it’s still expensive here and we’re hella broke too… [↩]