Ryan Freiwald
MAJ. Ha
CIS270wx-02
5/1/16
How Two Men Changed the World
Throughout history, great individuals have used their creative abilities and genius to give the world new technologies that both improved and enhanced lives. In this paper, I will be discussing two of these gifted individuals. The first will be Steve Jobs the creator of the very successful Macintosh computer platform and the second will be Mark Zuckerberg the creator of the multibillion user social media website “Facebook.” Both of these individuals which I learned about throughout this semester created very successful products that although very different, both offered people around the world an enhanced ability to share ideas, communicate, and even work more efficiently.
Steve Jobs wasn’t always the successful person that we know him to be today. He upon graduating from high school he began to attend Reed College. After just one semester he dropped out and began working for Atari. After a year of working there he teamed up with an individual named Steve Wozniak to start the production of the Macintosh platform. Since the first apple computer came into the market in 1984, Mac computers have become the second most popular computers in the world. You might ask why Mac is not number one. There is a very simple answer to this question. Most people do not have $1000 to spend on a personal computer especially when the competing windows computers are offered for as low as $200. Furthermore, there are a lot of different programs such as Microsoft office and multiple open source programs that are only offered on windows computers. Pricing aside, what have Mac offered that no one else has been able to offer. Mac, especially in the last decade has shown that they can continually offer new products to increase people’s quality of life. Examples of these technologies would be the Iphone, the Ipad, and the Ipod. Furthermore, the advanced security that is offered on Mac devices has given people a trust in the business that no over business has been able to offer. I found it to be inspiring that a person who was a college dropout and didn’t seem like he was going to have a future was able to change the world and become one of the richest and most successful individuals in history. This just proves that sometimes a creative mind can sometimes be more important than on that is book smart. (apple)
Mark Zuckerberg was only 19 years old when he launched the social media website “Facebook” in 2004. Facebook started off as a college website where college students could connect and socialize. Social media was already around in 2004 with websites like MySpace but since these websites were poorly designed and difficult to use, Facebook quickly became popular. A year after its launch at colleges, Facebook was introduced to regular internet users and this is when it really took off. Businesses were offering billions of dollars to buy the creative rights to the website and advertisement agencies were scrambling to try and get some of the information in order to be enhance their advertisement strategies. Zuckerberg made some deals, but to this day, he remain the president and CEO of Facebook. What is really interesting about Facebook is the changes that it brought about with privacy and communication. Family members and friends who hadn’t communicated for years were reconnected and people began to have the ability to share pictures and videos of what they were doing at any second in their lives. Facebook has become a newspaper of people’s lives. I also found Mark Zuckerberg’s success to be very inspiring because I have been learning how to code for years now and it’s inspiring to know that maybe one day I will be able to come up with an idea that will make me a lot of money. (FB)
So the question might be asked, how can these technologies help businesses? Businesses for the decade have used computers to increase productivity and the speed at which tasks can be completed. Facebook on the other hand has helped businesses with marketing. It is free to create a Facebook profile and with the amount of time that people spend on Facebook on average, it has become very easy for new entrepreneurs, inventors, and businesses to market their products and ideas.
In conclusion, both of these individuals have offered the world something that has changed people everyday lives. Both of the products have been used to enhance businesses both with the buying, selling, and advertising aspects. These ideas have changed the world for the better and I believe that everyone can learn something from their success. Creativity is becoming something more than a good personality trait. It is becoming something that businesses need in order to be successful. People are no longer satisfied with plain technology. They want something that is new and intriguing. Mac computers and Facebook have offered this creative aspect that users want.
Works Cited
- http://www.biography.com/people/steve-jobs-9354805#apple-computers
- (apple)
- http://www.biography.com/people/mark-zuckerberg-507402#early-life
- (FB)