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'Becoming Steve Jobs' Excerpts: Friendship With Tim Cook, Campus 2 and Succession at Apple
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I miss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvfrVrh76Mk&spfreload=10
Gives me goosebumps everytime. Can't say that about the latest keynotes unfortunately :-/
Gives me goosebumps everytime. Can't say that about the latest keynotes unfortunately :-/
I don't think he's really dead. I think he's in stasis, like Peter Weyland in Prometheus. Campus 2 is actually the spaceship that he'll use to journey to the engineers' homeworld to find eternal life. Jonny Ive is David.
I think the point is how he was around people [humans], not just around things. Yes there is no doubt in my mind that he was a great salesman and tech-visionary. I own and care about very many Apple products I have owned over the years. However I find this article along with the Eddy Cue one yesterday, bemoaning any references to Steve Jobs having a number of well known character flaws', a bit indulgent. As if they are trying to re-write their version of history and force it down our throats like iOS8 and Yosemite. None of which are the finished article right now IMO..
In one instance they [Cook & Cue] moan about references to negativity, then promote totally opposite media which papers over his faults.
I have a couple of great friends who can be complete d$cks to people they do not like, or care for. The fact that I am not on the receiving end, does not mean that other people may consider their actions towards them undesirable.
So accounts from best friends and colleagues, who worked with Steve Jobs' passion in making great things, is not an argument that convinces me.
I think I've had enough of every Steve Jobs biopic. No offense intended.
He was great man with brilliant ideas... these biopics are verging on corny.
It's just enough already.
IMO
How many have you read? Maybe you should just stop reading them? Or do you just find the existence of them tiresome? I hope it's not the latter, as that's just sad.
I'm sorry, but I didn't think the book made him look as bad as what Tim is stating, aside from the daughter part. It made him look human and I think his eccentricity is part of what helped him to be what he was and accomplish the things he did. I, for one, enjoy reading about the flaws in great people. It helps me deal with my own humanity and shortcomings.
I miss him almost everyday
I do too.
Not in the sense of, "Apple is going down the tubes. I wish Steve was alive.", but, without getting too sappy here, I just miss the man; the possibilities that were never realized. So young, so brilliant. So many innovations to bring into the world that we'll just never know about.
Think about when he was discussing cloud computing in 1997. That was his reality THEN and he envisioned it for all of us one day. Heck, I was still trying to figure out dial-up internet back then.
He was quite an inspiration to me and still is.
Does it matter how many I read? Maybe it was 1 or 2 or none.... the point was there are just too many. AGAIN IMO.
If i remember correctly, Jobs contacted Isaacson personally to write his biography. Steve also spent a lof of time with him and gave him his side of a story. This is probably the closest we are gonna get to real Steve.
Cook is salty because steve said that he is not product person and isaacson published that quote.
Cook is salty because steve said that he is not product person and isaacson published that quote.
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Isaacson's book
It was very packed with information, but it had no nuance. He plainly could see the crazy side of Jobs, but had difficulty seeing the genius. Interesting that the man himself is still the center of controversy. There's this book, the movie, and the Alex Gibney film that seems to focus only on the less-saintly aspects. Imagine, the Gawker editors were intimidated! The nerve!
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One thing, you don't read a biopic. That is a "movie". A biography is what you read.
It was very packed with information, but it had no nuance. He plainly could see the crazy side of Jobs, but had difficulty seeing the genius. Interesting that the man himself is still the center of controversy. There's this book, the movie, and the Alex Gibney film that seems to focus only on the less-saintly aspects. Imagine, the Gawker editors were intimidated! The nerve!
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One thing, you don't read a biopic. That is a "movie". A biography is what you read.
Yep. Biography - written by someone else about the subject
Autobiography - written by the subject about themselves.
I never found him to be an inspiration - I always viewed him as the P.T. Barnum of the computer world.
This is the first time I've commented without reading the post or any other comments. Just wanted to say that the spoilers were bad for the Isaacson book, so if you plan on reading this new book I'd avoid these posts. I've preordered my iBooks copy and eagerly await diving into it!
Sure. What I meant was, a lot of the book was really just a rehashing of the history of Apple, as can be found in numerous other books. He didn't add much that was new or especially insightful, which is a shame since he was the guy with direct access to Jobs in his final months. The book was okay (the story of Apple and Jobs is so fascinating, it would be hard to tell the story and not make it interesting!) but you just get the feeling an opportunity slipped by for something much better. (A bit like my feeling towards the Star Wars prequels, but I digress.)
Not sure what a movie has to do with a book being discussed here. And so far there has really only been one of each (not counting a TV movie that was more about computing as well as him).I think I've had enough of every Steve Jobs biopic. No offense intended.
He was great man with brilliant ideas... these biopics are verging on corny.
It's just enough already.
IMO