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New Book 'Apple: The First 50 Years' Hits Record Low Price on Amazon
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WarmWinterHat
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Apple has nothing do with the Walter Isaacson book. Same with this one.
I have seen it on sale at Barnes & Noble.
boswald
macrumors 68030
I've been looking everywhere for this book outside of Amazon, but I can't find it anywhere. Tried the usual suspects (Walmart, Target, etc) but nobody has heard of it or doesn't have it in stock. Last ditch effort is the library (which should've been first, but I digress). I would love to own my own copy, though, so I might just bite the bullet and buy it from Amazon.
WarmWinterHat
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The design and typography of this book is like an amateur design of the 1990’s! Really really terrible… A shame.
Mousse
macrumors 601
Jobs, Woz😎 and some dude who sold his shares for $800.
The Sculley reign of error.😉
The second coming of Jobs.
Ballooning up under Cook.
ArrayDecay
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Sowelu
macrumors 6502a
Yes, if you place the Apple Polishing Cloth in between pages near the end of the book and let it sit there for a few weeks, the Apple Polishing Cloth will appear flat with no creases, the way a $20 cloth should be shipped.
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AustinIllini
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It's also not a good biography.
Becoming Steve Jobs is much better
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
breaks down the conventional, one-dimensional view of Steve Jobs that he was half-genius, half-jerk from youth, an irascible and selfish leader who slighted friends and family alike. Becoming Steve Jobs answers the central question about the life and career of the Apple cofounder and CEO: ...
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It's also not a good biography.
Becoming Steve Jobs is much better
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
breaks down the conventional, one-dimensional view of Steve Jobs that he was half-genius, half-jerk from youth, an irascible and selfish leader who slighted friends and family alike. Becoming Steve Jobs answers the central question about the life and career of the Apple cofounder and CEO: ...www.amazon.com
Thank you for the recommendation, I'll check it out. Of the library, probably. Foreword by Andreesen does not inspire me but now I'm morbidly curious. I thought he was awesome in the 90s but...not so much these days.
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AustinIllini
macrumors G5
There's just more inside stuff Jobs and Apple wouldn't want you to know about in Becoming Steve Jobs. Both the Isaacson book and the Pogue book are a little too sanitized.
Considering Isaacson’s was authorized that’s not too surprising. Good to have both sides. I’m more interested in his early years since I was around for the later ones.
Like many people I don’t think I fully appreciated what we had until he was gone. People thought he was mean and ruthless but people today are just as bad or worse without being as insightful.
AustinIllini
macrumors G5
Yeah, so the book I suggested is more fair but still overall positive. it doesn't turn him into a villain or anything like that.
For sure, sorry if I implied it did. I tend to opine thinking of what could have been when his life comes up.
davecom
macrumors regular
If you're more interested in his early years/the early years of Apple then I recommend Return to the Little Kingdom by Michael Moritz. If you're interested in his early years on a personal level then you may consider The Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of My Life with Steve Jobs, a memoir by his former girlfriend Chrisann Brennan. I have a rundown of some other books about early Apple that I read here: