haters just gonna hate...
It's equal parts fact and fiction. But no doubt the majority on this forum will go with the conspiracy theory since it's serves their agenda
Well, regarding "agendas" you can say the exact same thing for those sitting on the other side of this debate.
I think the book will be an interesting read and I understand why people want to read it. I'll read it too. What I find ridiculous is the media coverage that has been going on for weeks. When a President or Pope John Paul, Mother Teresa etc died, they didn't get this amount of attention. You'd think this guy could walk on water and raise the dead from all the post-mortem publicity he is getting. Never mind the worshiping that goes on here.
You could have said the same thing about Michael Jackson when he died, since he's not a President of a country or some saintly figure, but in the end what difference does that make?! Clearly this person affected millions of people in some positive tangible form or another thus that's mostly why he's getting the current press coverage in the first place.
Also, in case you forgot to check the calendar,
Steve Jobs died only two weeks ago and he had a biography scheduled for an early 2012 release** that got bumped up to now since it made more marketing sense to capitalize on book sales based off the natural surge of interest generated by his very recent death. So none of this recent press coverage should be surprising to anyone.
**side thought: maybe SJ thought he was going to pass away sometime early next year hence that original book release date? 
He is polarizing because he can be so contradicting sometimes. He would refer most people as "bozos" if they had bad ideas or not on his level, but his company still catered to these same "bozos" with a novice level on tech. He says salespeople should never run a company but he was probably the greatest salesman in tech history. He is a fascinating man full of great incite and hypocrisy.
Exactly.
I know the downgrade storm will fly but the guy sounded like a jerk. Who parks in handicap spaces the doesn't actually need to? No plates on his car? Demeaning waitresses and employees? Does this sound like a good person to you? I know he had a lot of success in life and did great things in his line of work but come one.... Parking in handicap spaces?
IF it wasn't Steve Jobs and you saw someone doing that, wouldn't you think they were a douchebag?
Im sure there will be a ton of interesting things in the book but at least they're honest.
Yes, Steve Jobs was a jerk at times, and in general a control freak during the course of his life, but let's give the man some credit where credit is due: he
highly encouraged the people that were going to be interviewed for the book to be honest in their assessment of him, pointing out both the good and bad in his personality, and that's something to respect because most people, especially in positions of power and influence, want to be showered with praise and have their faults cleverly covered up with either circumstantial rationalizations or just avoid controversy all together by glossing over the nitty-gritty details of their life. Whereas someone like Steve Jobs is wiling to wear it on his sleeve for all to see. Weak people just don't do that. And for this SJ deserves some credit, despite his obvious flaws.
Yes. That devil Bill Gates who dared to bring the graphical user interface to the masses - and at an affordable price for everybody!
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If Steve Jobs hadn't had such a huge ego, the entire world would be using Mac OS since 1984. The only thing he needed to do back then was to LICENSE that piece of software like Microsoft did it with DOS and later Windows.
I simply disagree with this standpoint that licensing the Mac OS earlier on would have helped Apple "own" the market, because that assumes the OS itself wouldn't be watered down as a result of the licensing.
Of course I'm speculating here, but I think part of the consideration to not license it was to minimize any "design by committee" issues that would present itself when trying to make the Mac OS function on other computing platforms. The best way to guard against that, and thus stay true to Steve Jobs vision for the highest user experience, was to avoid licensing. Of course the natural downside to this is that the Mac OS platform is going to cost more to develop and implement at first, but over time this cost comes down, provided the system catches on. If anything that's where I would begin & end giving Bill Gates credit for, he did help make it
affordable to get a computer into the average person's home much more than the Macintosh ever did, but the overall quality and satisfaction of actually building and using DOS is another matter.
Steve Jobs basically had the book be the next surge for Apple momentum. This guy thinks 5 steps ahead of those who think they can stay 5 steps ahead.
No doubt about that, and it seems to be working like a charm.
