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Steve Jobs to Participate in Authorized Biography

Ruthless. :D

That's why he's the man. When he's pissed, somebody is going to pay for it.

I think it's hilarious that he pulled publishers of those unauthorized biographies.
 
Let's hope the author is able to retain a certain degree of independence from the subject otherwise this will be more of a hagiography than autobiography and therefore a waste of time. I suspect Jobs is smart enough to understand that and will hopefully not try to exert control over what the author decides should or should not be in the book.
 
goobot said:
doesnt he always hate something some time or another then like it. fm radio? any one?
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Not that there isn't any truth to that, but you also have to realize that a lot of the things Jobs and co. say are planned media responses.

-iPod will never do video
-People don't read anymore

Things like that I'm sure Apple was thinking about long before we saw public product introductions. They just don't want to let the competition know what they are doing. Obviously I can't say the two examples I specifically gave qualify, but there is truth to my point!

Anyway, I haven't read any books about Apple or Jobs although I have read a TON online, but this I would probably read. Sounds like it will be good. :)
 
Hurda said:
I assume you don't have a transplanted organ, so I guess you don't have realized that you'll die one day? Right?
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I know I'll die one day, I can't speak for Sj though :cool: who know what he's thinking.......oh....must wait for the book to know what he's thinking :D
 
bjdku said:
Uh Oh. Hopefully this doesn't mean Steve Jobs thinks he is terminally ill.
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Yes he is, as are all of us, we are all moving closer to the end, some more than others, as much as i hat to admit it Steve is now 55 and has had a major decease followed by serious complications, realistically he may not have to many years left, i hope i am wrong but he has been given a lot longer than most get with cancer.

With his extra time he has achieved great things that there is no doubt but perhaps he now feels its time to put down on record his past before its to late.
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MacFly123 said:
-People don't read anymore
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I’ve never understood the controversy in that statement. What Jobs said was actually true.

From the National Endowment of the Arts:

Americans are reading less - teens and young adults read less often and for shorter amounts of time compared with other age groups and with Americans of previous years.

Less than one-third of 13-year-olds are daily readers, a 14 percent decline from 20 years earlier. Among 17-year-olds, the percentage of non-readers doubled over a 20-year period, from nine percent in 1984 to 19 percent in 2004.

On average, Americans ages 15 to 24 spend almost two hours a day watching TV, and only seven minutes of their daily leisure time on reading

http://www.nea.gov/news/news07/TRNR.html

There are a ton of other statistics about reading at http://bookstatistics.com/sites/para/resources/statistics.cfm also.
 
inkswamp said:
Let's hope the author is able to retain a certain degree of independence from the subject otherwise this will be more of a hagiography than autobiography and therefore a waste of time. I suspect Jobs is smart enough to understand that and will hopefully not try to exert control over what the author decides should or should not be in the book.
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I hope it's a warts 'n' all type autobiography, that would be a fascinating read.

If it's air-brushed over to place Jobs on a pedestal as some kind of perfect genius I'll give it a miss.
 
g4tom said:
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.
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Or you just have your "facts" wrong and he was born in SF...

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/archives/2005/12/steve_jobs_wisc.html

According to this source (a relative) his parents lived in Green Bay WI but "snuck off to California for the birth".
 
Don’t forget Jobs sometimes manages a sense of humor about the unauthorized stuff. See: Noah Wiley :)
 
No not wrong, sorry. He paid to cover it up.

dernhelm said:
Or you just have your "facts" wrong and he was born in SF...

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ByteOfTheApple/blog/archives/2005/12/steve_jobs_wisc.html

According to this source (a relative) his parents lived in Green Bay WI but "snuck off to California for the birth".
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A poor unwed mother in the 50's who could not afford a baby paid to fly or drive to California to give birth??? It is a cover up. He is rich. And you must believe him. Oh and he is the greatest man of our generation. Yes I think he is just plain a genius. That happened to be born in Wisconsin.
 
jaw04005 said:
I’ve never understood the controversy in that statement. What Jobs said was actually true.

From the National Endowment of the Arts:

Americans are reading less - teens and young adults read less often and for shorter amounts of time compared with other age groups and with Americans of previous years.

Less than one-third of 13-year-olds are daily readers, a 14 percent decline from 20 years earlier. Among 17-year-olds, the percentage of non-readers doubled over a 20-year period, from nine percent in 1984 to 19 percent in 2004.

On average, Americans ages 15 to 24 spend almost two hours a day watching TV, and only seven minutes of their daily leisure time on reading

http://www.nea.gov/news/news07/TRNR.html

There are a ton of other statistics about reading at http://bookstatistics.com/sites/para/resources/statistics.cfm also.
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Yes, I agree. Just a small part of the dumbing down of America!

When you are in as powerful a position as Steve Jobs, people will try to make anything they can out of what you say.
 
Doubt this will be an iBookstore exclusive, the iPad comes out in march, and books dont write themselves overnite like handbrake rips DVDs, and of course Jobs himself will be involved in this, so there will have to be scheduling for multiple interviews which could take months and months, then the years it would take to write, edit, and publish it.

Plus if the author shows up with a PC to take notes on we might not see this at all... ;)
 
Seriously?

g4tom said:
A poor unwed mother in the 50's who could not afford a baby paid to fly or drive to California to give birth??? It is a cover up. He is rich. And you must believe him. Oh and he is the greatest man of our generation. Yes I think he is just plain a genius. That happened to be born in Wisconsin.
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Really?

That seems a little far-fetched. You are saying that he has no problem admitting that he is adopted and that his parents were unwed (and from Wisconsin), but he used his riches to hide that he was actually born in Wisconsin and not California?

It wouldn't have been nearly as strange for an unwed mother in the 50's to try to hide that she was pregnant, so an unwed mother driving to California to get as far away from home as possible to give birth seems very likely in comparison.

Seeing as Jobs was adopted by a middle class California couple, he was either in California already (likely for the time) or scouted for adoption in Wisconsin (not so likely in those days), so it seems more likely to me that he was born there.

That isn't to say it is impossible that he covered up his Wisconsin birth and an early journey to the rewards of California, but it just seems unlikely to me, so I was just curious if you had any links to substantiate this strange cover up?
 
Nice. So he can spill the beans on how he selfishly and cruelly jumped to the front of the line for a new liver (money & power talks after all) so some 4-year-old child, probably from the Mideast, on the waiting list could die... all so your saviour could keep a monopoly that allows for 100 different "fart apps" going. Also the 'privilege' to buy an iPhone and be mind-controlled like a slave on how to use it after spending $400+ to buy it contract-free. Nice. lol

Apple bans jailbreakers:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10454364-93.html

You KNOW if it were anyone else in any other field -- technology-driven or not -- you'd be outraged.

Your Kool-Aid dispenser at work. Proud of yourself? :)
 
It's definitely going to be an interesting read. I expect it in app format and when I launch the application Holographic Steve Jobs will great me with stories.
 
Eric S. said:
Well if he's right and no one reads anymore, he can say whatever he wants in this book and no one will ever know.
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It may be another one of those "lets save/revolutionize the industry" things.
 
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