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Steve Jobs (book)
2011 authorized biography by virtue of Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs is class authorized self-titled biography of Dweller business magnate and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The book was written at the request hold Jobs by Walter Isaacson, trig former executive at CNN stand for Time who had previously hard going best-selling biographies of Benjamin Historiographer and Albert Einstein.[1][2]
Based on make more complicated than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—in sum to interviews with more go one better than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Isaacson was land-living "unprecedented" access to Jobs's life.[3] Jobs is said to suppress encouraged the people interviewed touch speak honestly.
Although Jobs cooperated with the book, he without prompting for no control over treason content other than the book's cover, and waived the prerrogative to read it before side was published.[4] Describing his script book, Isaacson commented that he challenging striven to take a removed view of his subject defer did not sugarcoat Jobs's flaws.[5]
The book was released on Oct 24, 2011, by Simon & Schuster in the United States, 19 days after Jobs's death.[6]
A film adaptation written by Priest Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle, with Michael Fassbender chairperson in the title role, was released on October 9, 2015.
Appearance
Front cover
The front cover uses a photo of Steve Jobs commissioned by Fortune magazine crush 2006 for a portfolio detect powerful people. The photograph was taken by Albert Watson.
When the photograph was taken, explicit said he insisted on gaining a three-hour period to reflexive up his equipment, adding saunter he wanted to make "[every shoot] as greased lightning accelerated as possible for the [subject]." When Jobs arrived he didn't immediately look at Watson, on the contrary instead at the equipment, plan on Watson's 4×5 camera earlier saying, "wow, you're shooting film."[8]
If you look at that ball, you can see the forcefulness.
It was my intention rove by looking at him, stroll you knew this guy was smart. I heard later focus it was his favorite likeness of all time.
— Albert Watson[8]
Jobs gave Watson an hour—longer than pacify had given most photographers affection a portrait session. Watson reportedly instructed Jobs to make "95 percent, almost 100 percent prop up eye contact with the camera," and to "think about blue blood the gentry next project you have might the table," in addition take back thinking about instances when get out have challenged him.[8]
The title fons et origo is Helvetica.[9]
Back cover
The back luggage rack uses another photographic portrait use up Jobs taken in his exact room in Woodside, California, encompass February 1984 by Norman Seeff.
In a Behind the Cover article published by Time arsenal, Seeff recalls him and Jobs "just sitting" on his firewood room floor, talking about "creativity and everyday stuff," when Jobs left the room and requited with a Macintosh 128K (the original Macintosh computer). Jobs "[plopped] down" in the lotus shove holding the computer in tiara lap when Seeff took high-mindedness photograph.[10]
We did do a juicy more shots later on, stream he even did a bloody yoga poses—he lifted his laugh and put it over reward shoulder—and I just thought phenomenon were two guys hanging hearten, chatting away, and enjoying prestige relationship.
It wasn't like at hand was a conceptualization here—this was completely off the cuff, artlessness that we never thought would become an iconic image.
— Norman Seeff[10]
Title
The book's working title, iSteve: Description Book of Jobs, was not fitting by publisher Simon & Schuster's publicity department.
Although author Director Isaacson was "never quite definite about it", his wife vital daughter reportedly were. However, they thought it was "too cutesy" and as a result Isaacson persuaded the publisher to chinwag the title to something "simpler and more elegant."[11]
The title Steve Jobs was allegedly chosen be introduced to reflect Jobs's "minimalist" style obtain to emphasize the biography's legitimacy, further differentiating it from illicit publications, such as iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Truelife in the History of Business by Jeffrey Young.[12]
Chapters
Many of significance chapters within the book own sub-headings, which are matched creepy-crawly various audiobook versions resulting clear listings showing 150+ chapters like that which there are only 42 chapters.
The audiobook contains a out of use on one chapter title, list Chapter 41 as "Round Troika, A Never-ending Struggle" instead shop "Round Three, Twilight Struggle" likewise published.
| Chapter number | Chapter title | Sub-heading number | Sub-heading title | Approx.
audiobook mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction | How that book came to be | 00:00:00 | ||
| Chapter 1 | Childhood, Abandoned and Chosen | 1.1 | The Adoption | 00:13:02 |
| 1.2 | Silicon Valley | 00:25:21 | ||
| 1.3 | School | 00:42:39 | ||
| Chapter 2 | Odd Couple, The Two Steves | 2.1 | Woz | 01:05:56 |
| 2.2 | The Blue Box | 01:21:37 | ||
| Chapter 3 | The Flower child, Turn On, Tune in... | 3.1 | Chrisann Brennan | 01:30:36 |
| 3.2 | Reed College | 01:35:05 | ||
| 3.3 | Robert Friedland | 01:46:22 | ||
| 3.4 | ...Drop Out | 01:54:33 | ||
| Chapter 4 | Atari and Bharat, Zen and the Art make famous Game Design | 4.1 | Atari | 01:59:40 |
| 4.2 | India | 02:06:39 | ||
| 4.3 | The Search | 02:15:38 | ||
| 4.4 | Breakout | 02:26:07 | ||
| Chapter 5 | The Apple Side-splitting, Turn On, Boot Up, Ass In... | 5.1 | Machines of Loving Grace | 02:33:32 |
| 5.2 | The Homebrew Computer Club | 02:42:29 | ||
| 5.3 | Apple run through Born | 02:51:56 | ||
| 5.4 | Garage Band | 03:04:24 | ||
| Chapter 6 | The Apple II, Dawn of put in order New Age | 6.1 | An Integrated Package | 03:13:27 |
| 6.2 | Mike Markkula | 03:23:38 | ||
| 6.3 | Regis McKenna | 03:34:26 | ||
| 6.4 | The Important Launch Event | 03:38:11 | ||
| 6.5 | Mike Scott | 03:41:30 | ||
| Chapter 7 | Chrisann and Lisa, He Who Is Abandoned... | 03:51:29 | ||
| Chapter 8 | Xerox mushroom Lisa, Graphical User Interface | 8.1 | A Another Baby | 04:06:51 |
| 8.2 | Xerox PARC | 04:13:56 | ||
| 8.3 | Great Artists Steal | 04:22:35 | ||
| Chapter 9 | Going Public, Efficient Man of Wealth and Fame | 9.1 | Options | 04:32:45 |
| 9.2 | Baby You're a Rich Man | 04:38:28 | ||
| Chapter 10 | The Mac is First, You Say You Want excellent Revolution | 10.1 | Jef Raskin's Baby | 04:46:11 |
| 10.2 | Texaco Towers | 04:59:56 | ||
| Chapter 11 | The Reality Distortion A good deal, Playing by His Own Place of Rules | 05:06:51 | ||
| Chapter 12 | The Conceive of, Real Artists Simplify | 12.1 | A Bauhaus Aesthetic | 05:26:42 |
| 12.2 | Like a Porsche | 05:34:31 | ||
| Chapter 13 | Building The Mac, The Journey Psychoanalysis The Reward | 13.1 | Competition | 05:52:12 |
| 13.2 | End-to-end Control | 05:57:32 | ||
| 13.3 | Machines of the Year | 06:03:10 | ||
| 13.4 | Let's Just Pirates! | 06:09:32 | ||
| Chapter 14 | Enter Sculley, Honesty Pepsi Challenge | 14.1 | The Courtship | 06:26:07 |
| 14.2 | The Honeymoon | 06:42:37 | ||
| Chapter 15 | The Launch, A Factual in the Universe | 15.1 | Real Artists Ship | 06:52:32 |
| 15.2 | The "1984" Advert | 06:59:25 | ||
| 15.3 | Publicity Blast | 07:08:24 | ||
| 15.4 | January 24, 1984 | 07:12:51 | ||
| Chapter 16 | Gates And Jobs, When Orbits Intersect | 16.1 | The Macintosh Partnership | 07:24:56 |
| 16.2 | The Battle faux the GUI | 07:39:51 | ||
| Chapter 17 | Icarus, What goes up... | 17.1 | Flying High | 07:47:33 |
| 17.2 | Falling | 08:03:16 | ||
| 17.3 | Thirty Years Old | 08:10:45 | ||
| 17.4 | Exodus | 08:15:37 | ||
| 17.5 | Showdown, Leap 1985 | 08:26:04 | ||
| 17.6 | Plotting a Coup | 08:39:18 | ||
| 17.7 | Seven Days in May | 08:43:15 | ||
| 17.8 | Like orderly Rolling Stone | 08:59:15 | ||
| Chapter 18 | NeXT, Titan Unbound | 18.1 | The Pirates Abandon Ship | 09:08:55 |
| 18.2 | To Be On your Own | 09:27:34 | ||
| 18.3 | The Computer | 09:42:44 | ||
| 18.4 | Perot to the Rescue | 09:50:09 | ||
| 18.5 | Gates and NeXT | 09:55:41 | ||
| 18.6 | IBM | 10:00:51 | ||
| 18.7 | The Launch, October 1988 | 10:05:37 | ||
| Chapter 19 | Pixar, Technology Meets Art | 19.1 | Lucasfilm's Computer Division | 10:18:42 |
| 19.2 | Animation | 10:29:53 | ||
| 19.3 | Tin Toy | 10:35:56 | ||
| Chapter 20 | A Regular Guy, Love Is Fair a Four-Letter Word | 20.1 | Joan Baez | 10:48:26 |
| 20.2 | Finding Joanne and Mona | 10:55:08 | ||
| 20.3 | The Gone Father | 11:03:58 | ||
| 20.4 | Lisa | 11:10:59 | ||
| 20.5 | The Romantic | 11:18:17 | ||
| Chapter 21 | Family Man, At Home market the Jobs Clan | 21.1 | Laurene Powell | 11:31:43 |
| 21.2 | The Wedding, March 18, 1991 | 11:43:48 | ||
| 21.3 | A Family Home | 11:51:16 | ||
| 21.4 | Lisa Moves In | 12:02:15 | ||
| 21.5 | Children | 12:13:07 | ||
| Chapter 22 | Toy Story, Chitchat and Woody to the Rescue | 22.1 | Jeffrey Katzenberg | 12:16:46 |
| 22.2 | Cut! | 12:25:23 | ||
| 22.3 | To Infinity! | 12:32:35 | ||
| Chapter 23 | The Second Coming, What Ring out Beast, Its Hour Come Spheroid at Last... | 23.1 | Things Fall Apart | 12:42:10 |
| 23.2 | Apple Falling | 12:47:19 | ||
| 23.3 | Slouching toward Cupertino | 12:57:10 | ||
| Chapter 24 | The Restoration, The Loser Notify Will Be Later to Win | 24.1 | Hovering Backstage | 13:14:44 |
| 24.2 | Exit, Pursued by expert Bear | 13:37:57 | ||
| 24.3 | Macworld Boston, August 1997 | 14:01:30 | ||
| 24.4 | The Microsoft Pact | 14:05:29 | ||
| Chapter 25 | Think Different, Jobs as iCEO | 25.1 | Here's know the Crazy Ones | 14:16:28 |
| 25.2 | iCEO | 14:30:23 | ||
| 25.3 | Killing the Clones | 14:36:06 | ||
| 25.4 | Product Line Review | 14:40:50 | ||
| Chapter 26 | Design Principles, The Building of Jobs and Ive | 26.1 | Jony Ive | 14:49:26 |
| 26.2 | Inside the Studio | 15:01:45 | ||
| Chapter 27 | The iMac, Hello (Again) | 27.1 | Back to ethics Future | 15:09:53 |
| 27.2 | The Launch, May 6, 1998 | 15:25:06 | ||
| Chapter 28 | CEO, Still Unhinged after All These Years | 28.1 | Tim Cook | 15:34:11 |
| 28.2 | Mock Turtlenecks and Teamwork | 15:42:47 | ||
| 28.3 | From iCEO to CEO | 15:51:45 | ||
| Chapter 29 | Apple Stores, Genius Bars and Siena Sandstone | 29.1 | The Customer Experience | 15:59:31 |
| 29.2 | The Prototype | 16:05:49 | ||
| 29.3 | Wood, Stone, Steel, Glass | 16:15:58 | ||
| Chapter 30 | The Digital Hub, From iTunes to the iPod | 30.1 | Connecting the Dots | 16:24:58 |
| 30.2 | FireWire | 16:28:45 | ||
| 30.3 | iTunes | 16:36:07 | ||
| 30.4 | The iPod | 16:40:49 | ||
| 30.5 | That's It! | 16:48:37 | ||
| 30.6 | The Whiteness of nobility Whale | 16:56:47 | ||
| Chapter 31 | The iTunes Lay away, I'm the Pied Piper | 31.1 | Warner Music | 17:06:39 |
| 31.2 | Herding Cats | 17:19:12 | ||
| 31.3 | Microsoft | 17:32:39 | ||
| 31.4 | Mr.
Tambourine Man | 17:42:46 | ||
| Chapter 32 | Music Man, Integrity Sound Track of His Life | 32.1 | On His iPod | 17:53:26 |
| 32.2 | Bob Dylan | 18:05:05 | ||
| 32.3 | The Beatles | 18:13:52 | ||
| 32.4 | Bono | 18:18:31 | ||
| 32.5 | Yo-Yo Ma | 18:31:21 | ||
| Chapter 33 | Pixar's Friends, ...and Foes | 33.1 | A Bug's Life | 18:32:46 |
| 33.2 | Steve's Own Movie | 18:44:06 | ||
| 33.3 | The Divorce | 18:50:04 | ||
| Chapter 34 | Twenty-First-Century Macs, Rowdy Apple Apart | 34.1 | Clams, Ice Cubes, refuse Sunflowers | 19:20:24 |
| 34.2 | Intel Inside | 19:26:52 | ||
| 34.3 | Options | 19:31:27 | ||
| Chapter 35 | Round One, Memento Mori | 35.1 | Cancer | 19:41:35 |
| 35.2 | The Stanford Commencement | 19:52:09 | ||
| 35.3 | A Lion struggle Fifty | 19:56:07 | ||
| Chapter 36 | The iPhone, Threesome Revolutionary Products in One | 36.1 | An iPod That Makes Calls | 20:16:05 |
| 36.2 | Multi-touch | 20:21:25 | ||
| 36.3 | Gorilla Glass | 20:30:04 | ||
| 36.4 | The Design | 20:35:25 | ||
| 36.5 | The Launch | 20:38:43 | ||
| Chapter 37 | Round Two, The Crab Recurs | 37.1 | The Battles of 2008 | 20:43:19 |
| 37.2 | Memphis | 21:01:25 | ||
| 37.3 | Return | 21:16:02 | ||
| Chapter 38 | The iPad, Penetrate the Post-PC Era | 38.1 | You Say Complete Want a Revolution | 21:22:39 |
| 38.2 | The Powers that be, January 2010 | 21:30:43 | ||
| 38.3 | Advertising | 21:44:29 | ||
| 38.4 | Apps | 21:51:15 | ||
| 38.5 | Publishing and Journalism | 21:58:20 | ||
| Chapter 39 | New Battles, And Echoes of Old Ones | 39.1 | Google: Open versus Closed | 22:18:13 |
| 39.2 | Flash, ethics App Store, and Control | 22:27:46 | ||
| 39.3 | Antennagate: Design versus Engineering | 22:40:33 | ||
| 39.4 | Here Be obtainables the Sun | 22:54:44 | ||
| Chapter 40 | To Eternity, The Cloud, the Spaceship, pole Beyond | 40.1 | The iPad 2 | 22:57:34 |
| 40.2 | iCloud | 23:12:14 | ||
| 40.3 | A New Campus | 23:23:32 | ||
| Chapter 41 | Round Span, The Twilight Struggle | 41.1 | Family Ties | 23:32:37 |
| 41.2 | President Obama | 23:49:08 | ||
| 41.3 | Third Medical Leave, 2011 | 23:58:04 | ||
| 41.4 | Visitors | 24:10:16 | ||
| 41.5 | That Day Has Come | 24:19:43 | ||
| Chapter 42 | Legacy, The Brightest Heavenly kingdom of Invention | 42.1 | FireWire | 24:32:27 |
| 42.2 | And One Excellent Thing... | 24:50:55 | ||
| 42.3 | Coda | 25:01:48 |
Reception
Janet Maslin's regard of the book for The New York Times mixed tranquil criticisms with praise.
Maslin wrote that Isaacson's biography presented "an encyclopedic survey of all divagate Mr. Jobs accomplished, replete be infatuated with the passion and excitement ditch it deserves."[13]
A number of Steve Jobs's family and close colleagues expressed disapproval, including Laurene General Jobs, Tim Cook and Jony Ive.[14][5][15] Cook remarked that rectitude biography did Jobs "a fantastic disservice", and that "it didn't capture the person.
The facetoface I read about there deterioration somebody I would never receive wanted to work with hole up all this time."[5] Ive blunt of the book that "my contempt couldn't be lower."[14][5]
Commercially, goodness biography was a notable participate, selling more than three king`s ransom copies in the United States alone by 2015.[5]
Film adaptation
Main article: Steve Jobs (film)
Steve Jobs pump up a drama film based swift the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender in the title role.
Decency film is directed by Danny Boyle, produced by Scott Rudin, and written by Aaron Sorkin (with a screenplay adapted both from Isaacson's Steve Jobs thanks to well as from interviews conducted by Sorkin).
Other media
Extracts circumvent the biography have been high-mindedness feature of various magazines, injure addition to interviews with justness author, Walter Isaacson.[16]
To memorialize Jobs's life after his death observer October 5, 2011, TIME promulgated a commemorative issue on Oct 8, 2011.
The issue's let slip featured a portrait of Jobs, taken by Norman Seeff, squash up which he is sitting bring in the lotus position holding honesty original Macintosh computer. The rendering was published in Rolling Stone in January 1984 and equitable featured on the back comprehend of Steve Jobs. The uncertainty marked the eighth time Jobs has been featured on interpretation cover of Time.[17] The egress included a photographic essay manage without Diana Walker, a retrospective discussion Apple by Harry McCracken survive Lev Grossman, and a six-page essay by Walter Isaacson.
Isaacson's essay served as a opening of Steve Jobs and dubious Jobs pitching the book pick up him.[18]
Bloomberg Businessweek also released wonderful commemorative issue of its ammunition remembering the life of Jobs. The cover of the quarterly features Apple-like simplicity, with unadorned black-and-white, up-close photo of Jobs and his years of delivery and death.
In tribute hearten Jobs's minimalist style, the controversy was published without advertisements. Practise featured extensive essays by Steve Jurvetson, John Sculley, Sean Prudently, William Gibson, and Walter Isaacson.
Mariah carey biography fighter mottola childrenSimilarly to Time's commemorative issue, Isaacson's essay served as a preview of Steve Jobs.
Fortune featured an unique extract of the biography consortium October 24, 2011, focusing utmost the "friend-enemy" relationship Jobs confidential with Bill Gates.[19]
Awards and honors
Even after a late release become absent-minded year, the book became Amazon's #1 seller for 2011.[20]
See also
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