问答题 Read the following text(s) and write an essay to
1) summarize the main points of the text(s),
2) make clear your own viewpoints, and
3) justify your stand.
In your essay, make full use of the information provided in the text(s). If you use more than three consecutive words from the text(s), use quotation marks(" ").
You should write 160-200 words.
NOBODY else in the computer industry, or any other industry for that matter, could put on a show like Steve Jobs. His product launches, at which he would stand alone on a black stage and conjure up a "magical" or "incredible" new electronic gadget in front of an awed crowd, were the performances of a master showman.
He spent his life packaging that magic into elegantly designed, easy to use products. He had been among the first, back in the 1970s, to see the potential that lay in the idea of selling computers to ordinary people. In those days of green-on-black displays, when floppy discs were still floppy, the notion that computers might soon become ubiquitous seemed fanciful. But Mr. Jobs was one of a handful of pioneers who saw what was coming.
Mr. Jobs caught the computing bug while growing up in Silicon Valley. As a teenager in the late 1960s he cold-called his idol, Bill Hewlett, and talked his way into a summer job at Hewlett-Packard. But it was only after dropping out of college, travelling to India, becoming a Buddhist and experimenting with psychedelic drugs that Mr. Jobs returned to California to co-found Apple, in his parents" garage, on April Fools" Day 1976.
Dropping out of his college course and attending calligraphy classes instead had, for example, given Mr. Jobs an apparently useless love of typography. But support for a variety of fonts was to prove a key feature of the Macintosh. Mr. Jobs expected to sell "zillions" of his new machines. But the Mac was not the mass-market success Mr. Jobs had hoped for, and he was ousted from Apple by its board. His remarkable second act began in 1996 when Apple, having lost its way, acquired NEXT, and Mr. Jobs returned to put its technology at the heart of a new range of Apple products. And the rest is history: Apple launched the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, and became the world"s most valuable listed company.