| Steve Jobs | |
|---|---|
 Nice Peter as Steve Jobs | |
| Character information | |
| Birth name | Abdul Lateef Jandali |
| Nickname(s) | Steve Steven Paul Jobs |
| Born | February 24, 1955 San Francisco, California |
| Died | October 5, 2011 (aged 56) Palo Alto, California |
| Physical description | |
| Hair | Gray (formerly brown) |
| Eyes | Brown |
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| Rap battle information | |
| Appeared in | Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates |
| Vs | Bill Gates HAL 9000 |
| Release date | June 14, 2012 |
| Official vote(s) | 54% (Old poll from ERB Website) |
| Location(s) | The "VS" screen A Mac desktop screen The Get a Mac commercial The Macworld Expo |
| “ | Let me just step right in. I got things to invent!
— Steve Jobs
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Steve Jobs battled Bill Gates in Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates. He left in the middle of the battle to "turn heaven a profit", which is a reference to his actual death, and as a result, HAL 9000 came in to challenge Gates as a third-party rapper. He was portrayed by Nice Peter.
Information on the rapper
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was an American businessman, designer, and inventor. He was born on February 24th, 1955, in San Francisco, California as the illegitimate child of Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Carole Schieble. According to his biological first cousin, Bassma Al Jandaly, his birth name was Abdul Lateef Jandali.
Because of the fact that Abdulfattah Jandali was a Muslim, Schieble's parents refused to allow their daughter to marry him. As a result, Abdul Lateef Jandali was adopted at birth by Clara and Paul Reinhold Jobs and renamed Steven Paul Jobs (although he met his biological family when he was older). In 1976, he and two partners, including Steve Wozniak, formed Apple Computer in the wake of several unsuccessful attempts to present a prototype home computer to larger firms. At Apple, Jobs was the driving force behind microcomputers such as the Apple II and Macintosh families. He was Apple's CEO until the late 1980s, when his successor, John Sculley, threw him out over a disagreement. During his forced hiatus, Jobs also was a co-founder and CEO of Pixar, previously known as the Graphics Group, and NeXT Inc.
NeXT would be re-absorbed by Apple amid a string of so-so managers, questionable deals, and sketchy product releases that left Apple in deep debt and desperate to pay it all off by 1997. Jobs was absorbed as part of the acquisition, and would be voted in once more as Apple's CEO that year.
During his second term, Jobs, along with his research team acquired from NeXT, oversaw several product launches that, in effect, helped Apple regain its footing and also to dominate markets outside of the PC market. In 1998, Jobs' Apple created the iMac, the industry's first affordable all-in-one consumer computer built for ease of use. 2001 saw the rise of the iTunes music service and the iPod as a mainstream portable digital media player. By 2006, Jobs began converting Apple hardware to use Intel components and would place Macs in direct competition with Windows clones. In 2007, he presented the all-in-one iPhone. Finally, in 2010, Jobs and Apple reimagined the tablet computer in the iPad. Each product launch would have Jobs delivering a keynote speech in the same black mock-turtleneck and jeans, and almost always with an extra surprise at the end that left attendees hungry for more, traits for which he became legendary.
After a long battle against pancreatic cancer, Jobs died at the age of 56 on October 5th, 2011, in Palo Alto, California. His final words were "Oh wow, oh wow, oh wow." Just days before his death, he conferred his duties as CEO upon Tim Cook, who had been the COO previously.
ERBoH Bio
[Lights up. I walk on stage dressed in my trademark black turtleneck and jeans. The crowd goes CRAZY.] We're going to make some history together today. 1955 – I was born and given up for adoption. Not long after, I founded a little company called Apple along with my high school friend Steve Wozniak. [A giant picture of a bearded man appears on the massive screen behind my head.] Together we created one of the first personal computers – the Apple II, and helped popularize the graphical user interface (GUI) with Macintosh computers. Although the board of my own company kicked me out in 1985, I returned victorious in 1996 and took control again. In my hiatus from Apple, I helped form a little company called Pixar and revolutionized the movie business. Back at Apple, I encouraged people to "Think Different" and invented the iPod and iTunes (revolutionizing the music industry), the iPhone (changing the way people interact with the internet and each other), the iPad (allowing people to play tiny video games while on the toilet) and continued to popularize Mac computers. You MIGHT have seen my "I'm a Mac" commercials. I'm being sarcastic, of course you did. Some people think that my great strength was as a marketer, and well, I did have a way of creating and promoting products that just got people excited. I made Apple one of the world's most profitable companies and continued working up until the day before I passed away from Pancreatic Cancer – the one PC I couldn't beat.
Lyrics
Verse 1:
Let me just step right in. I got things to invent!
I'm an innovator, baby; change the world!
Fortune 500 'fore you kissed a girl!
I'm a pimp; you're a nerd. I'm slick; you're cheesy!
Beating you is Apple II easy!
I make the product that the artist chooses,
And the GUI that Melinda uses.
I need to bring up some basic shit.
Why'd you name your company after your dick?
Verse 2:
A man uses the machines you build to sit down and pay his taxes.
A man uses the machines I build to listen to the Beatles while he relaxes!
Verse 3:
Ooo, everybody knows Windows bit off Apple!
Verse 4:
All the people with the power to create use an Apple!
Verse 5:
You know, I bet they made this beat on an Apple.
Verse 6:
You will never, ever catch a virus on an Apple!
Verse 7:
Let's talk about doctors. I've seen a few
'Cause I got a PC, but it wasn't from you.
I built a legacy, son. You could never stop it.
Now, excuse me while I turn heaven a profit…
Scrapped lyrics
Let me just step right in. I got shit to invent!
I need to bring up some basic shit, yo,
Why'd you name your company after your dick, bro?
You only got Windows 'cause you stole from Apple.
Every creative soul I know uses Apple!
I bet you they made this beat on an Apple!
Walked into the record industry and killed it.
Fired from my own company, rebuilt it.
Every design I made, I killed it.
Every company, I thought "I'll build it."
My legacy will never fall,
But the PC got to me after all…
Trivia
- Jobs is the first title rapper to neither be announced at the beginning of their battle nor appear on a title card, as he interrupted the announcer on the "VS" screen.
- Nice Peter got his hair cut very short while portraying Jobs and had to wear a hat on his head for a short period of time until his hair grew back.
- He is the second rapper to die in-battle, after Billy Mays.
- Out of all of the rappers to die in-battle, he and Frederick the Great are the only rappers to do so peacefully.
- Billy Mays suffered a heart attack.
- The Tenth Doctor was shot by a Dalek.
- However, this may not be considered as a death, as he then transformed into the Fourth Doctor.
- Adolf Hitler was sliced in two by Darth Vader.
- Romeo & Juliet both committed suicide, and Bonnie & Clyde were rapidly shot by off-screen lawmen.
- Alexander the Great was poisoned by Ivan the Terrible.
- He, Frederick the Great, and Billy Mays are the only characters who were not killed by another opponent.
- Out of all of the rappers to die in-battle, he and Frederick the Great are the only rappers to do so peacefully.
- He is the first rapper to leave unexpectedly in a battle and have the first verse.
- He is the first person to not be replaced by someone on his side when he dies.
- He, along with Vince Offer and the Doctor, are the only people to respond to the announcer.
- Coincidentally, all were portrayed by Nice Peter, who also voices the announcer.
- He and Bill Gates currently have the most verses to date, at seven.
- However, if both adaptations of James Bond, who together had nine verses, are counted as one character, Gates and Jobs would have the second most.
- They, along with both Bond adaptations, also have the shortest single verses to date, at one line.
- Jobs was jokingly quoted at the end of Nice Peter vs EpicLLOYD saying, "pass the mic", possibly hinting at his appearance in Season 2.
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