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Steve Jobs Biography Reviewed and Other Tidbits From the Book

Comment for the day: Microsoft - run by salespeople - "mostly irrelevant"

Paul Graham also said that back in '07

Just bought Audiobook and plan to buy two copies of hardback in the morning.

Would give a lot for the possibility of a signed copy.

iStillSad
 
Apple Big Mac said:
That statement to Sculley is surprising. I wonder how much more SJ would have been able to accomplish if he had continued leading Apple instead of getting forced out and going on the NeXT path.
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Firing Steve Jobs saved Apple. NeXT led directly to OS X. Without OS X, Apple never gains street cred with the techies who are in no small part responsible for helping to rescue Apple's reputation. People these days don't seem to remember that at one time, Apple products were looked at disdainfully by many as cute toys. OS X changed that. Finally, a real operating system. Finally, a company that makes real computer products.

These days, people give all the credit for Apple's success to the "consumer" products, like the iPod and it's successors. They've forgotten all about the cool factor and halo effect that came about when so many tech heads started adopting Apple products. They've been thrown under the bus of late, but they're still here and they haven't forgotten.
 
After watching the 60 Minutes feature, I'm interested to know if Isaacson is going to release any portion of the audio that they excerpted. It was really neat to hear SJ in them.
 
Hey guys.

I just received the book and I need to find the quote about the Apple TV that Jobs worked on. I plan to read the book from start to end but this quote is needed today. Can someone guide me to the page number/numbers (in the paper edition)?

Thanks!
 
Took me 3 days to read it through. Didn't read any Mac Blogs during that time as I didn't want to get it spoiled. Btw - I was reading it on my Kindle readers, iPad and on the Mac. Kindle books are great.
 
Just $15.99 at Target Today

Just a heads up for those who may not have the book yet.

I stopped at Target today, they had a huge stack for $15.99.

That's the best price I've seen.
 
I just picked up a copy of the book tonight at my local bookstore, they had it on sale for $25.00... I'm looking forward to reading it this weekend! :apple:
 
Have I just found a timeline error in the book regarding the 1984 add and the famous IBM keynote speech.

The book talks about Steve being on stage with a bow tie when giving the IBM speech and introducing the Mac for the first time. As far as I can find from YouTube clips these were 2 separate events, one in 1983 and one for the hardware launch in 1984

This for the bow tie keynote

This for the IBM/1984 keynote
 
I've been listening to the Audio book version which is now in iTunes.

I'm at the stage where he has just re joined apple.

I think it's well done and my observation so far is that
SJ wasn't motivated by money he just wanted to produce insanely great products. So unless SJ didn't think a product was " not ****" it would be released. He didn't march to the same tune as say Samsung or Nokia and release a new phone for the sake of it.

It seemed Deep down he just wanted the products to as good as possible and wasn't in the business of releasing stuff for the sake of it or taking on the competition. He did what he thought was best, never reacting to market conditions.

He wouldn't want to add to the already 1000's of bad products out there even if it would make apple squill ions.

I hope apple keep this ethos going. not being motivated by money is refreshing and is exemplified in the brilliant but expensive packaging which most other companies would scoff at.

Ironically ny giving people generally great products and a complete user experience he grew one of the most profitable companies in the world.
 
This book is fantastic so far, the only downer is some of Bill Gates ignorant comments regarding what NeXT brought back to Apple.

What an idiot.

needthephone said:
I've been listening to the Audio book version which is now in iTunes.

I'm at the stage where he has just re joined apple.

I think it's well done and my observation so far is that
SJ wasn't motivated by money he just wanted to produce insanely great products. So unless SJ didn't think a product was " not ****" it would be released. He didn't march to the same tune as say Samsung or Nokia and release a new phone for the sake of it.

It seemed Deep down he just wanted the products to as good as possible and wasn't in the business of releasing stuff for the sake of it or taking on the competition. He did what he thought was best, never reacting to market conditions.

He wouldn't want to add to the already 1000's of bad products out there even if it would make apple squill ions.

I hope apple keep this ethos going. not being motivated by money is refreshing and is exemplified in the brilliant but expensive packaging which most other companies would scoff at.

Ironically ny giving people generally great products and a complete user experience he grew one of the most profitable companies in the world.
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"Steve Jobs is Watching Booksellers....and You"

Fun article in the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...llers-and-you/2011/10/28/gIQAYEiePM_blog.html

I have to admit, when I bought the hardcover version of the book the other day, when I brought it home, I immediately positioned it on a stand and stuck it in a place where, uh, yeah, Steve is watching me as I'm happily typing away on one of the devices he brought to us......
 
Isaacson sure likes the word "cherubic" and "prickly".

I hope a second edition comes out in the next few years with a follow up chapter that talks about his actual death with the circumstances and reactions around it. The way it is now, there is an acknowledgement that he will likely die soon, but other than that it seems to end abruptly considering he died less than a month before it's release.

Also I'm sure there is another year or two worth of products that haven't been released yet that Jobs had his fingerprints on and drove in some way. It would be good to hear Ive and others comment on their development and what role Steve played.
 
I just stumbled over this quote from Richard Stallman, the creator of the GPL and basically the father of Free Software:

“Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die -- not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing. Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective ”

It's on Wikipedia. And no, I personally don't care to discuss this, but probably a lot of people here might.
 
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