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'Steve Jobs' Becomes Amazon's Best-Selling Book of 2011
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I read about 14 chapters the first day, but have since just been reading it in bits. I want to finish it, but it's become a chore - and I still have about 80 pages to go.
It's a very poorly written book. The language is pedestrian and dull, the author displays little empathy for Jobs and his treatment of technical topics is amateurish.
If I wasn't so interested in the subject, I would have given up on it.
It's cute how you still grasp the last vestiges of euro-pride that still exist. The fact of the world is that most things happen in the U.S.A, not in the socialist environment that currently exists in Europe. We've been heading towards socialism, and that is the root of the reason we've been having so many economic troubles over here lately, but we're still not in as bad a state as Europe on many levels. Both European media and (I'm sad to say) American media are heavily biased nowadays and getting the real news is hard for most people, so I can understand if you disagree with me. The fact of the world is America is still where the opportunity is for as long as we remain a free-market capitalist economy, I just hope we can someday return to our former less-regulated glory.
I feel like I was reading a different book than some of you as I found it incredibly insightful and interesting. Also, I thought the author took every opportunity to tell both side of each story, remember the "reality distortion field" that was the prevalent theme throughout the book? Also, as a result of the book being told so strongly from Steve's point-of-view and memories of the events in his life that helped shape him and Apple gave the reader the utmost personal perspective on everything from the first Mac to Bill Gates to pretty much everything Steve did in his life. I have no complaints and found the book to be a tough one to set down.
However, I do think Apple could be in trouble in a couple of years. I don't know how anyone could say differently after reading this book and seeing how much Steve was involved in everything that had the Apple name on it. He obsessed over EVERYTHING, even the way a cord plugged into an outlet in Europe. Obviously, Apple was/is not just Steve Jobs, and Ive and others have tremendous talent, but I am worried about a future without Job and his crazy-genius personality running the show. I am sure there will be plenty to disagree, we will just have to wait and see what happens in 2012-13-14.
I liked the book
I listened to the Audio Book. I liked it. I would never have the time and just unitask reading the book.
I thought it was well written and as accurate as it could be done.
You saw the good side and the bad side of Steve. That was what he wanted.
You get to see a lot of the transformation of Apple as well and you see how each product genre release affected Apple even as it was affecting our lives.
All that drug use though almost makes me think this whole thing was a fluke and not the work of a visionary perfectionist.
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I hope it doesn't become requisite reading for all CEO's so that they try to grow their businesses by treating their employee's like crap. I hope they just get the message that design is key and they need to think about how the product or service can improve the customer's lives.
I listened to the Audio Book. I liked it. I would never have the time and just unitask reading the book.
I thought it was well written and as accurate as it could be done.
You saw the good side and the bad side of Steve. That was what he wanted.
You get to see a lot of the transformation of Apple as well and you see how each product genre release affected Apple even as it was affecting our lives.
All that drug use though almost makes me think this whole thing was a fluke and not the work of a visionary perfectionist.
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I hope it doesn't become requisite reading for all CEO's so that they try to grow their businesses by treating their employee's like crap. I hope they just get the message that design is key and they need to think about how the product or service can improve the customer's lives.
lol.
how's that manufacturing sector treating you. Over here it still exists, but only the high-end stuff (i.e. MB/Audi/BMW and Miele.)
Europe only appears to be in trouble because we refuse to participate in robust quantitative easing (printing money, in this case) as the UK and US have done. That may have worked for you short term, but inflation will continue to erode peoples' wages in the for decades to come because of it. we're taking the moral and fiscal high ground with austerity packages and a refusal to participate in QE.
there is a reason I left the US (by choice), because of short-sighted thinking.
Please educate yourself about how the modern world works.
The US and the rest of the West is fast becoming irrelevant.
Look towards the East and India.
There will be no return to glory for you. Less-regulated or otherwise.
And how many sold in the Apple e-books store thingy? 4?
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Although sales are sales...a biography (not even an auto-biography) is not the same kind of "book" as a Fiction novel. When I think of a "book" that topped the sales charts of a year, I think of fiction novels...not encylcopedias, not sudoku books, not sports almanacs, not pictures of Europe collections, etc.
Again, sales are sales...kudos to Steve and the author...but it's not the same as some writer sitting down for over a year thinking up a story.
I hope Steve is donating some portion of the sales to some worthy cause.
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Although sales are sales...a biography (not even an auto-biography) is not the same kind of "book" as a Fiction novel. When I think of a "book" that topped the sales charts of a year, I think of fiction novels...not encylcopedias, not sudoku books, not sports almanacs, not pictures of Europe collections, etc.
Again, sales are sales...kudos to Steve and the author...but it's not the same as some writer sitting down for over a year thinking up a story.
I hope Steve is donating some portion of the sales to some worthy cause.
As the only authorized Jobs bio ever published - the book was bound to be #1 best seller. Especially given the release timing, immediately after Jobs death, and the incredible amount of hype about Jobs personality that followed. It didn't matter what was in the book or who wrote it - it had no choice but to be #1.
However, the book itself was terrible on most levels. It was dry, humorless, lazy in may areas, not particularly insightful or revealing.. and written by someone with no clue or interest about the industry that Jobs life revolved in. Total disappointment, and a botched attempt at a one-time chance for authorized Jobs bio.
However, the book itself was terrible on most levels. It was dry, humorless, lazy in may areas, not particularly insightful or revealing.. and written by someone with no clue or interest about the industry that Jobs life revolved in. Total disappointment, and a botched attempt at a one-time chance for authorized Jobs bio.
George Clooney has publicly stated multiple times that the rumor is not true, and that he has no interest in playing Steve Jobs, even making a statement to Entertainment Weekly about it.
That rumor is toast... and thank god. Even he thought he would be a horrible choice to play Jobs, and I agree.
That rumor is toast... and thank god. Even he thought he would be a horrible choice to play Jobs, and I agree.
I would vastly disagree with you. It's not an issue of losing relevancy in the world as a Nation, it's that our relevancy is changing.
The East... China.... India... Japan... have a great deal of reliance upon us for everything. If the US fell, it would be a domino affect. We may not export things anymore, nor are we a manufacturing power house any more, but we consume more and have some of the biggest trade.
Further, we are the leading nation in the medical field in both technologies and drug research. Other countries enjoy cheap medicine because we pay for it in a sense and fund research.
Our nation has just changed in a lot of ways in how we fit into the world, but we still are the most important piece of the puzzle, even if not the largest piece.
I think it deserves to be the best selling book. I found it to be well-written, albeit sometimes a little slow. But definitely insightful and informative.
Where do you think America's greatest minds came from? They came here not because the US is so inherently great but rather because the world was at war while we had two oceans to protect us and an unusually robust stock of natural resources. Now that we've squandered many of our natural resources and handed over most of our wealth to the top 1% our best minds are beginning to migrate elsewhere. But I suppose that's exactly what you'd expect for a country that wants a truly free market so badly we're willing to give up almost anything to get it.
Dead people can donate money?
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If the US fell, where I am from Australis would be just fine. The US is not part of our world economically speaking. For us it's more China plus other asia and who they trade with that affects us the most.
And another point. The credit ratings of European countries are taking a nose dive and they have billions in debt. But the US on the other hand have something like 15 Trillion in debt. And their credit rating went down one measly point. Something is not right there.
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
$15,088,915,920,398.07 of US debt as of right now to be exact.
Their credit rating was downgraded not because of their debt per se, but because of the lack of faith in our system of government, or something.
On topic: I haven't read this book yet, but I really want to. I know that when I do it will be on my iBooks app.
