I haven't laughed at a post as hard as this in awhile. Took me completely by surprise.
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Paperback Version of 'Steve Jobs' Biography Coming September 10 with Younger Jobs on Cover
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I haven't laughed at a post as hard as this in awhile. Took me completely by surprise.
And cue the litigation when Apple say iSamesung is too similar to iSteve. Cause they are both iS
Wait...did you actually intentionally capitalize the "H" above!?
Get a grip, Mate...he's hasn't risen yet!
Very astute. Funniest thing I've read all day.....
The girl I'm seeing got me the unabridged audiobook a couple months ago and now this is announced. It looks like I'll be getting this as well....
Also on iBooks.
iBooks - coming soon to Macintosh.
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If it's any consolation, in a 100 years they will, but they'll still be releasing bios of Lincoln.
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That, and in all the videos I've seen of Steve there was never any nudity.
Is this gonna be another way like LOTR Extended version, with "x minutes more footage", just to make more money? We'll start tacking more extra stuff on, we delibratly left out for this poupose.
I've got the origional Steve Jobs bio., just havan't got round to reading it on iPad yet.
I've got the origional Steve Jobs bio., just havan't got round to reading it on iPad yet.
New cover with younger Steve
Actually, I have a copy of this on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine published on October 27, 2011.
That was oddly the issue I discovered that he was at the same junior high school as I during the same time. This culminated in an year long journey of connections to that period of my life only to find out he grew up across the street from me and that we were childhood friends.
Actually, I have a copy of this on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine published on October 27, 2011.
That was oddly the issue I discovered that he was at the same junior high school as I during the same time. This culminated in an year long journey of connections to that period of my life only to find out he grew up across the street from me and that we were childhood friends.
Don't bother with this overpriced garbage. There are cheaper and better specced books on the market that have more pages and a colour cover.
And larger pages?
It may seem silly, and I really don't know why, but every time I get caught off guard by him I have the urge to tear up. I guess it'd be easier to not care as much had I lost someone previously but in my 23 years none of my family has passed. I really did like this man. He was so passionate and dedicated... I wish I'd have known him personally. My signature sums it up. 
Isaacson got technical details wrong in this book—things a technical editor with a half-reasonable knowledge of Apple history and technology should have picked up and corrected before it ever went to print. One that really jumped out at me is where he describes OS X as just an evolution of the old Mac OS, and says 'the NeXT OS was never really used'. It's supposedly a quote from Gates, but Isaacson runs with it as if it's true—when probably half of us here on the MacRumors forums could have told him that OS X 10.0 was NeXT OS, with design changes and compatibility with the Classic Mac and PowerPC platform built in. You'd like to think they'd have corrected major mistakes like this two years on from the first edition!
An interesting discussion of the book's shortcomings here by John Siracusa:
http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42
And another one by John Gruber:
http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/walter_isaacson_steve_jobs
It's not 'shopped. Here's the original photo from Normal Seeff's website.
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The picture for the book cover is pretty bad lightened up and much of the highlights are gone.
Hand should be darkened more even if, like many people in sunny California, it is lighter than his face.