Talk:Steve Jobs/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: 12george1 (talk · contribs) 02:16, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

• There are several unsourced statements:
  • "Asked in a 1995 interview what he wanted to pass on to his children, Jobs replied, "Just to try to be as good a father to them as my father was to me. I think about that every day of my life." - Unsourced

Removed useless sentence

• • "During World War II, Paul Jobs joined the Coast Guard and "ferried troops around the world for General Patton. I think he was always getting into trouble and getting busted down to Private,"[1] Jobs said. A machinist by trade, his father worked hard and was "a genius with his hands." - Same issue

Removed useless sentence

• • "As Apple continued to expand with Wozniak's next version, the Apple II, the company began looking for an experienced executive to help manage its expansion."
  • "Apple president Mike Markkula also wanted to retire and believed that Jobs lacked the discipline and temperament needed to run Apple on a daily basis and that Sculley's conventional business background and recent successes would give a more favorable image."
  • "The Macintosh became the first commercially successful small computer with a graphical user interface."
  • "The Apple board of directors instructed Sculley to "contain" Jobs and limit his ability to launch expensive forays into untested products."
  • "MobileMe services, and the iTunes Store."
  • "The new company, which was originally based at Lucasfilm's Kerner Studios in San Rafael, California, but has since relocated to Emeryville, was initially intended to be a high-end graphics hardware developer. After years of unprofitability selling the Pixar Image Computer, it contracted with Disney to produce a number of computer-animated feature films that Disney would co-finance and distribute."
  • "The first film produced by the partnership, Toy Story, with Jobs credited as executive producer,[53] brought fame and critical acclaim to the studio when it was released in 1995. Over the next 15 years, under Pixar's creative chief John Lasseter, the company produced box-office hits A Bug's Life (1998); Toy Story 2 (1999); Monsters, Inc. (2001); Finding Nemo (2003); The Incredibles (2004); Cars (2006); Ratatouille (2007); WALL-E (2008); Up (2009); and Toy Story 3 (2010). Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up and Toy Story 3 each received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, an award introduced in 2001."
  • "and in early 2004, Jobs announced that Pixar would seek a new partner to distribute its films after its contract with Disney expired."
  • "Jobs's holdings in Disney far exceeded those of Eisner, who holds 1.7 percent, and of Disney family member Roy E. Disney, who until his 2009 death held about one percent of the company's stock and whose criticisms of Eisner — especially that he soured Disney's relationship with Pixar — accelerated Eisner's ousting. Jobs joined the company's board of directors upon completion of the merger and also helped oversee Disney and Pixar's combined animation businesses with a seat on a special six-person steering committee."
  • "Jobs also changed the licensing program for Macintosh clones, making it too costly for the manufacturers to continue making machines."
  • "The banner read "Steve, don't be a mini-player—recycle all e-waste"."
  • "In the unauthorized biography, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs, author Alan Deutschman reports that Jobs once dated Joan Baez. Deutschman quotes Elizabeth Holmes, a friend of Jobs from his time at Reed College, as saying she "believed that Steve became the lover of Joan Baez in large measure because Baez had been the lover of Bob Dylan" (Dylan was the Apple icon's favorite musician). In another unauthorized biography, iCon: Steve Jobs by Jeffrey S. Young & William L. Simon, the authors suggest that Jobs might have married Baez, but her age at the time (41) meant it was unlikely the couple could have children."
  • "For two weeks following his death, Apple's corporate Web site displayed a simple page, showing Jobs's name and lifespan next to his grayscale portrait. Clicking on the image led to an obituary, which read:
  • "Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple."
  • "Apple and Pixar's website still displays their tribute with a link to it on their respective main pages."
  • "Bloomberg Businessweek also published a commemorative issue. The cover of the magazine features Apple-style simplicity, with a black-and-white, up-close photo of Jobs and his years of birth and death. The issue was published without advertisements. It featured extensive essays by Steve Jurvetson, John Sculley, Sean Wisely, William Gibson, and Walter Isaacson."
• "but said that had Jobs told him about it and said he needed the money, Wozniak would have given it to him." - Change the comma to a semi-colon or insert the word "if" between "said" and "he".
• Watch out for date inconsistency within the references. For example, I see: 6 October 2011, 2011-10-06, and October 5, 2011; you can only have one style of writing the publication date.
• Also, there is some name inconsistency. The names of the author can only been either last name first and then first, vice versa. However, in this article I see: "Floyd Norman" and "Appleyard, Bryan".
• There is apparently an error with the formatting on reference #77.

On hold?

It appears the original nominator, User:Tomtomn00 is inactive. I would like to address the issues in the article if it can be put on hold a bit longer. I won't be free till after the 7th. DragonZero (Talk · Contribs) 13:32, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

I give up, too much problems with the article. DragonZero (Talk · Contribs) 05:27, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Well, if the original nominator is gone and you are not willing to fix the problems, then I have no other choice but to fail the article. Sorry.--12george1 (talk) 23:26, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Can we compare him with Samuel Colt?

Judjing by the effect, which has the production of Apple produced, we can compare the business of Jobs with that of Colt. He also wasn't the inventor. He also was a perfect effect-maker. He also made someting for everyone. 83.149.45.160 (talk) 20:54, 19 December 2011 (UTC)