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Steve Jobs to Participate in Authorized Biography

je_wallace said:
iCame, iSaw, iKicked Ass.
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That book is called "The Second Coming of Steve Jobs", although the story goes: I came, I saw, I kicked ass, I fell on my ass, I got back up and kicked ass again (and I drove a lot of people crazy along the way).

This one will just be called, "Steve Jobs: Definitely Not an A**hole".
 
Mac OS X Ocelot said:
Snooze. He did right by Apple, but he doesn't seem too terribly interesting a person to read about. And I don't think they can make him seem any more interesting than in that Pirates movie that doesn't have Johnny Depp (though wouldn't he be a great Jobs?).
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Jobs has been called a lot of things, but boring isn’t one of them.

From Apple the startup to the success of the Apple II to the Macintosh to his ouster from Apple by Sculley to stumbling into Pixar to the failure of NeXT to “Saving Apple” to the iMac to the iPod/iTunes Store to the iPhone.

You could probably write an entire book just on his ruthless management style, sense of design and dynamic personality.

His personal life is interesting also (being adopted, denying he was his daughter’s father, dating Diane Keaton and Joan Baez, strained relationship with his sister, refusing to marry his wife, having a son, surviving pancreatic cancer, kidney transplant, etc).

It’ll be an interesting read for sure.

As far as I know, “The Second Coming of Steve Jobs” by Alan Deutschman (Vanity Fair) is the only audiobook Jobs has even allowed on the iTunes Store.
 
Papparazi be damned

SwiftLives said:
I'm thinking this is another hint that we're going to see Jobs' retirement sooner rather than later.

He's always been a private individual presumably to keep the focus on his company rather than himself.
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Doesn't seem to mind the limelight. More likely just seeking to avoid feeding our national pastime of celebrity gawking, and thereby protecting himself and family from gossip hounds -- for which accurate, much less meaningful reporting is clearly optional.
 
MacRumors said:
Mr. Jobs has reacted angrily to some of these books, and in some cases has directed Apple stores to temporarily remove other books from the same publishers from their shelves.
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What a lovely man.

I can't wait to read the presentable and fully sanctioned Story of Steve, where he and Woz single-handedly created the personal computer with the "instant hit" Apple II, Bill Gates is nothing but a quisling, Jef Raskin never existed, everybody wanted a Mac, the NeXT cube was a bargain, Pixar was his idea all along, and people don't read anymore.
 
I don't think this indicates Steve is terminally ill. A biography - especially of the calibre of Walter Isaacson - will take a long time to write, and if you find out that you a terminally ill, you usually only have weeks to a few months to live.

It may signal he's going to retire in the next couple of years though.
 
NiteWaves77 said:
What a lovely man.

I can't wait to read the presentable and fully sanctioned Story of Steve, where he and Woz single-handedly created the personal computer with the "instant hit" Apple II, Bill Gates is nothing but a quisling, Jef Raskin never existed, everybody wanted a Mac, the NeXT cube was a bargain, Pixar was his idea all along, and people don't read anymore.
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Lol, finally a pertinent comment.

How impartial is an 'authorised' biography of SJ going to be when the same article mentions how he reacts to some of the unauthorised biographies? I'm sure all the koolaid drinkers will suck it up, but you have to be brainwashed to think it's likely to be much more than a fiction book!
 
NiteWaves77 said:
What a lovely man.

I can't wait to read the presentable and fully sanctioned Story of Steve, where he and Woz single-handedly created the personal computer with the "instant hit" Apple II, Bill Gates is nothing but a quisling, Jef Raskin never existed, everybody wanted a Mac, the NeXT cube was a bargain, Pixar was his idea all along, and people don't read anymore.
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You forgot the bit where he denied paternity of his daughter for two years, while she and the mother lived on welfare. ( http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.fortune/index2.htm )
 
The same Isaacson who wrote the biography of Ben Franklin? That'll feed an ego...


Davydd said:
The New York Times was prominent in the iPad announcement. This could very well have been a part of the negotiations to bring the NYTimes on board with the iPad.
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Are you confusing Time magazine with the New York Times?
 
...and you will be receiving a free digital copy with your purchase of an iPad. Maybe he'll even sign the back as well :p.
 
bjdku said:
Uh Oh. Hopefully this doesn't mean Steve Jobs thinks he is terminally ill.
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Maybe his liver transplant made him face death and realize he is human and mortal after all.

He realized he'll be dead one day, so better tell his story now and tell it the way he sees it.
 
stefman said:
Maybe his liver transplant made him face death and realize he is human and mortal after all.
He realized he'll be dead one day, so better tell his story now and tell it the way he sees it.
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I assume you don't have a transplanted organ, so I guess you don't have realized that you'll die one day? Right?

Eric S. said:
Translation: he'd better cash in while he can still enjoy the money and the media attention.
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Sure, because he desperately needs the few nickels from that book deal. :rolleyes:
 
Born In Wisconsin

He will probably lie again and say he's not adopted and that he was born in California. If he lies about that he will lie about other things too....

Don't get me wrong I love the products his company makes and have been a loyal Apple User since I bought my IIsi. But it has always bugged me that he lies about being adopted and where he was born. He WAS born in Wisconsin and that is a fact that will not make it into the book.
 
bjdku said:
Uh Oh. Hopefully this doesn't mean Steve Jobs thinks he is terminally ill.
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We are all terminally ill. As a two time cancer survivor, Jobs knows that his life expectancy isn't the best. Living with a donor liver may have changed him in ways we can't imagine. We may get an unusually truthful insight into his life.
 
SwiftLives said:
I'm thinking this is another hint that we're going to see Jobs' retirement sooner rather than later.

He's always been a private individual presumably to keep the focus on his company rather than himself.
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I see it this way too. We're in the last few chapters of his career with Apple, as CEO. He'll likely remain on the board

For the life of me, I can't understand why he's sanctioning an autobiography since no one reads anymore. :p


Isaacson is the author of two best-selling biographies, “Einstein: His Life and Universe” and “Benjamin Franklin: An American Life.”
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Surely that fed into Jobs ego. :D
 
So, I guess it might not be a coincidence that this ad has started to appear on this forum?
 

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