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'Becoming Steve Jobs' Leaks: Tim Cook Offered Jobs a Liver, Jobs Wasn't Interested in TV
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I had forgot that I had pre-ordered after the Gruber report; I'm all excited again about reading it!
You're not a "good guy" if you publisize a story like that YOURSELF to show the world what a "good guy" you are.
Self promotion at its worst.
Just pre-ordered my copy. Ironically it's cheaper on Kindle than iBooks.
I still don't believe they'll build a TV set when a plug-in box makes so much more sense. It's cheaper which means more frequent upgrades and probaby more profitable. Just wish they would get on with it. Done right the AppleTV could be the only box I need attached to my TV.
I still don't believe they'll build a TV set when a plug-in box makes so much more sense. It's cheaper which means more frequent upgrades and probaby more profitable. Just wish they would get on with it. Done right the AppleTV could be the only box I need attached to my TV.
I liked Tim Cook anyway.
My opinion of him has now gone into the stratosphere.
Greater love hath no man for his friends, etc...
My opinion of him has now gone into the stratosphere.
Greater love hath no man for his friends, etc...
Well, I can only hope noone is buying this liver nonsense .
Lie , rather .
Or that Jobs was a visionary or such .
He was a sales manager all his life, who got lucky a couple of times promoting iThings other people created - iMac and iPod .
Everything else was about milking every last drop out of the brand, via iTunes, Appstore, iPhone contracts, iCloud etc ...
Lie , rather .
Or that Jobs was a visionary or such .
He was a sales manager all his life, who got lucky a couple of times promoting iThings other people created - iMac and iPod .
Everything else was about milking every last drop out of the brand, via iTunes, Appstore, iPhone contracts, iCloud etc ...
So providing information about something that happened when being interviewed/asked about it is self promotion? I guess we all do that pretty much most of the time of every day when we talk about pretty much anything.
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So you've interviewed different people involved and have been closer to it all in all aspects that many of the people who actually did that?
I finished it, but it was definitely a struggle. This one seems to be much more faithful to the Steve that his closest friends and family knew.
Two things came to mind when I read this, 1. it seems like a deliberate leak to advertise the book, disguised as an accident that someone 'found', especially as it has now been removed. And 2. the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode where Larry donates a kidney to Lewis.
He wasn't "asked" about it, nobody knew about it and the guy who could confirm it is dead.
He didn't have to tell this story, nothing happened. He did a few tests and the procedure wouldn't have helped Jobs.
He told this story for the sole purpose of painting himself as a "great guy" and I find that to be really disgusting.
Doesn't matter who does it. It's a gross thing to do.
I don't see anything about that story leaking or how it came about in this MacRumor's article. Or even in the linked Cult Of Mac article.
So, again, it's somehow known how the story came to light to begin with, and how the information came about different details, and how and what Tim was asked about in relation to it?
An "offer" you know the other person can't accept is not really an offer. Things would be very different if he'd actually gone though with it.
As for share price (as if that's anything important unless you're a shareholder) it's mostly based on speculation about the Apple Watch. If that tanks you can be sure the share price will soon follow.
Sorry to sound negative, just trying to offer an alternative viewpoint without the rose-coloured glasses about an anecdote in an unreleased book as the basis for making Cook a saint. I just don't see it personally.
Ok again: The part of the book where that story is being told was "leaked" by Amazon. Tim Cook brings the story up, he is quoted. That part of the book was already readable online.
In my opinion just because he said Apple will never make another TV doesn't mean he didn't change his mind, especially if he felt that he had "cracked" it.