Steve Jobs He never felt any particular sympathy for his biological father.Abdulfattah John Jandali. In fact, he never met him. He refused to do so, as evidenced in his biography written by Walter Isaacson. However, this was not the case for Jandali, who, after learning that the Apple CEO was his biological son, wanted to meet him.
Why Steve Jobs was put up for adoption
Archival photograph of Steve Jobs (right) and Paul Jobs (left), his adoptive father
What Steve Jobs was an unwanted baby This is something that is almost even presumed knowing that he was adopted when he was only a few months old by Paul Jobs and Clara Jobs, whom the co-founder of Apple always loved as if they were his biological parents. However, his biological father's story is not exactly a happy one.
The issue of adoptions is always something delicate and in many cases it is personal circumstances that push parents to give up their baby for adoption. This is what happened to Abdulfattah John Jandali, a Syrian who emigrated to Wisconsin, where he met Joanne Schieble.
In 1954, Jandali and Schieble fell in love, but her father was extremely conservative. So much so that he didn't accept the relationship between them and even less considered being a grandfather when she got pregnant with Jandali. He did not allow them to marry and In 1955, a newborn baby, Steve Jobs, was put up for adoption..
Three marriages and an unhealthy work addiction
That same year, just months after Steve's birth and adoption, Joanne Schieble's father died and she was able to reconnect with Abdulfattah John Jandali. The two married and Joanne changed her last name to Simpson, which was also inherited by the couple's second daughter, Mona Simpson. Yes, Steve Jobs' biological sister.
For his part, Jandali devoted himself to university teaching at the University of Wisconsin, as well as to writing articles in Arabic newspapers, although of little significance. years later He was divorced and had two other marriages. until 2006 he became a widower and, as far as we know, he has not remarried.
All this at the same time when a technology company, Apple, was developing thanks, among others, to a certain Steve Jobs to whom the couple did not pay much attention. After all, nothing united them with this successful businessman.
He wanted to meet Steve Jobs a month before his death
Jandali was described by his first wife and daughter as a man addicted to work and many emotional deficiencies. This is the reason why Steve Jobs, who met his sister and his mother, never thought of looking for him.
However, he wanted to meet Jobs when, thanks to his daughter Mona, he learned that the first born he had to give up for adoption in 1955 was the same one who had revolutionized the computer industry with the Macintosh, the music industry. with the iPod and that it was already bearing fruit in telephony with the iPhone.
“I don’t want him to think I’m after his money.”
Jandali had mixed feelings. He came to speak in 2011 I wasn't ready to meet Steve Jobsprobably out of fear of rejection. There was reason to think this, because after abandoning him as a newborn, you never know how he will react. But also because of the position that Jobs occupied, already being the billionaire CEO of Apple. He was afraid of appearing interested in his fortune.
In fact, Jandali was eager to meet Jobs. Barely a month before his death, and when the tycoon had already given the Apple stick to Tim Cook, his biological father declared that “even having coffee together just once would make me very happy”. Something that never happened.
Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011, from a cancer that was never intended to be treated by conventional medicine. He left, yes, knowing his father's existence and that of his father. Jandali even described him as “the Edison of his time”, also showing himself sad “not to have been part of Steve's incredible journey”.
The last thing we heard about Abdulattah John Jandali was in 2015, when he was already 80 years old and, in his desire to work, he continued his professional activity as a manager of a casino in Boomtown , Nevada.
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