When Steve Jobs returned from India he said, “ The main thing I ’ ve learned is intuition ".

After Steve Jobs returned to Apple, another Unix-like operating system was introduced in the form of Mac OS X, but it had very little in common with A / UX, instead being based on the BSD-derived NeXTSTEP.

The Mac clone business was killed after Steve Jobs returned as interim CEO of Apple in July 1997.

In July, Apple ’ s CEO Gil Amelio was ousted by Apple ’ s Board of Directors, and Steve Jobs soon returned as interim CEO.

The film then flashes forward to 1997 as Jobs, who has returned to Apple, is announcing a new deal with Microsoft at the 1997 Macworld Expo.

The AppleVision line of displays were later renamed as ColorSync displays when Steve Jobs returned to Apple and consolidated the product lines.

After Steve Jobs returned to Apple as the new CEO, he revoked all of the clone producers ' licenses to produce Mac clones except for UMAX, due to their sub-US $ 1000 low-end offerings, a market in which Apple was not strong, and UMAX's stated desire to expand the Macintosh platform's presence in East Asian markets.

Most of these technologies were dropped in 1997 when Steve Jobs returned to Apple and ended many development efforts.

Steve Jobs returned to Apple just before the release of Mac OS 8. 5, and he decided to officially drop support for themes because he wanted to preserve a consistent user interface.

In late 1996, Apple purchased NeXT, and Steve Jobs returned to Apple after a 12-year hiatus following his forced resignation from the company in 1985.

Soon after Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he backed out of recently renegotiated licensing deals with OS licensees that Apple executives complained were still financially unfavorable.

He helped the new company obtain credit and venture capital, brought in Michael Scott as the first president and CEO, then took the job himself from 1981 to 1983 despite having promised his wife that he would only stay at Apple for four years, and that he would retire by 1984 Markkula served as chairman from 1985 until 1997, when a new board was formed after Jobs returned to the company.

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he began dismantling a number of non-productive departments.

Jobs, who had been ousted from the company in 1985, returned to become Apple's CEO in 1996 after his company NeXT was bought by Apple Inc., and he brought with him a new corporate philosophy of recognizable products and simple design.

The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only means of transportation, a VW van and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $ 500.

The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.

Apple's board of directors decided NeXTSTEP was a better choice and purchased NeXT in 1996 for $ 429 million, bringing back Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

A one button version of the mouse was incorporated into the Apple Macintosh but Steve Jobs decided against incorporating the chorded keyset.

The original Macintosh system software was partially based on the Lisa OS, previously released by Apple for the Lisa computer in 1983 and, as part of an agreement allowing Xerox to buy shares in Apple at a favorable rate, it also used concepts from the Xerox PARC Xerox Alto, which Steve Jobs and several other Macintosh team members had previewed.

After hearing about the pioneering GUI technology being developed at Xerox PARC from former Xerox employees like Raskin, Jobs negotiated a visit to see the Xerox Alto computer and Smalltalk development tools in exchange for Apple stock options.

NeXT was founded in 1985 by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs after he was fired from Apple the same year.

In 1984, Apple founder Steve Jobs was the head of Apple's SuperMicro division, which was responsible for the development of the Macintosh and Lisa personal computers.

Berg suggested to Jobs to use his influence at Apple to create a " 3M " workstation for higher education, featuring more than one megabyte of random access memory ( RAM ), a megapixel display and megaflop performance ( hence the name " 3M ").

Jobs was intrigued by Berg's concept of a workstation and contemplated starting a higher education computer company in the fall of 1985, amidst increasing turmoil at Apple.

Apple's Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) John Sculley ousted Jobs from his day-to-day role at Apple, replacing him with Jean-Louis Gassée in 1985.

The board of directors sided with Sculley while Jobs took a business visit to Western Europe and the Soviet Union on behalf of Apple.

After several months of being sidelined at Apple, Jobs resigned on Friday, September 13, 1985.

Jobs was joined by former Apple employees Bud Tribble, George Crow, Rich Page, Susan Barnes, Susan Kare, and Dan ' l Lewin and named his new company Next, Inc. After consulting with major educational buyers from around the country ( including a follow-up meeting with Paul Berg ), a tentative specification for the workstation was drawn up.

NeXT's first workstation was officially named the NeXT Computer, although it was widely referred to as " the cube " because of its distinctive case, a 1 ft x 1 ft x 1 ft magnesium cube, an edict of Jobs ' designed by Apple IIc case designer Frogdesign.

Apple paid $ 429 million in cash which went to the initial investors and 1. 5 million Apple shares which went to Steve Jobs.

Several NeXT executives replaced their Apple counterparts when Steve Jobs restructured the company's board of directors.

Jobs had experimented with some structural changes at Apple but at NeXT he abandoned conventional corporate structures, instead making a " community " with " members " instead of employees.

When Steve Jobs left Apple and started NeXT, he pitched Adobe on the idea of using PS as the display system for his new workstation computers.

** Steve Jobs returns to Apple Computer, Inc at Macworld in Boston.

" He has also worked as a consultant for the Minimum Wage Coalition to Save Jobs.

Following the demise of the various incarnations of NeXT ( started by Steve Jobs in the late 1980s and merged with Apple Computer in 1997 ), the Trillium software was published under the GNU General Public License, with work continuing as gnuspeech.

Before long, OpenDoc was scrapped, with Steve Jobs noting that they " put a bullet through head ", and most of the team was laid off in March 1997.

Before long, OpenDoc was scrapped, with Steve Jobs ( who had been at NexT Computer during this development ) noting that they " put a bullet through head ", and most of the team was laid off in a big reduction in force in March 1997.

In November 1996 Amelio started discussions with Steve Jobs ' NeXT, and bought the company on February 4, 1997, for $ 429 million.

During Amelio's tenure Apple's stock continued to slump and hit a 12-year low in Q2 1997 that was at least partially caused by a single sale of 1. 5 million shares of Apple stock on June 26 by an anonymous party who was later confirmed to be Steve Jobs.

On the July 4, 1997 weekend, Jobs convinced the directors to oust Amelio in a boardroom coup ; Amelio submitted his resignation less than a week later ; and Jobs then became interim CEO on September 16.

Apple's use of the infomercial medium was immediately discontinued with Steve Jobs ' 1997 return to the helm of the company.

It spans the time period of the early 1970s to 1997, when Steve Jobs ( Noah Wyle ) and Bill Gates ( Anthony Michael Hall ) develop a partnership after Jobs returns to Apple Computer.

The movie ends with Steve Jobs returning to Apple after its acquisition of NeXT Computer, and Bill Gates appearing live via satellite at a MacWorld Expo in 1997, during Jobs ' first Stevenote keynote address, to announce an alliance between Apple and Microsoft.

The tax rate on long-term gains was reduced in 1997 via the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 from 28 % to 20 % and again in 2003, via the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, from 20 % to 15 % ( for individuals, whose highest tax bracket is 15 % or more ), or from 10 % to 5 % for individuals in the lowest two income tax brackets ( whose highest tax bracket is less than 15 %) ( See progressive tax ).

They were discontinued in 1997 shortly after Steve Jobs came back to Apple.

The project was discontinued along with MCF shortly after Steve Jobs ' return to the company in 1997.

At the 1997 Macworld Expo in Boston, on August 6, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates announced a partnership between Microsoft and Apple.

Steve Jobs reduced the company's large and confusing product lines immediately after becoming Apple's interim CEO in 1997 ; toward the end of the year, Apple trimmed its line of desktop Macs down to the beige Power Macintosh G3 series, which included the iMac's immediate predecessor, the G3 All-In-One, which featured nearly identical specifications and was sold only to the educational market.

Vavi took centre stage in the four-month negotiation that preceded the 1997 Jobs Summit.