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"With a new afterword."--Cover
How this book came to be -- Childhood: abandoned and chosen -- Odd couple: the two Steves -- The dropout: turn on, tune in ... -- Atari and India: Zen and the art of game design -- The Apple I: turn on, boot up, jack in ... -- The Apple II: dawn of a new age -- Chrisann and Lisa: he who is abandoned ... -- Xerox and Lisa : graphical user interfaces -- Going public: a man of wealth and fame -- The Mac is born: you say you want a revolution -- The reality distortion field: playing by his own set of rules -- The design: real artists simplify -- Building the Mac: the journey is the reward -- Enter Sculley: the Pepsi challenge -- The launch: a dent in the universe -- Gates and Jobs: when orbits intersect -- Icarus: what goes up ... -- NeXT: Prometheus unbound -- Pixar: technology meets art -- A regular guy: love is just a four-letter word -- Family man: at home with the Jobs clan -- Toy story: Buzz and Woody to the rescue -- The second coming: what rough beast, its hour come round at last ... -- The restoration: the loser now will be later to win -- Think different: Jobs as iCEO -- Design principles: the studio of Jobs and Ive -- The iMac: hello (again) -- CEO: still crazy after all these years -- Apple stores: genius bars and siena sandstone -- The digital hub: from iTunes to the iPod -- The iTunes store: I'm the Pied Piper -- Music man: the sound track of his life -- Pixar's friends: ... and foes -- Twenty-first-century Macs: setting Apple apart -- Round one: Memento mori -- The iPhone: three revolutionary products in one -- Round two: the cancer recurs -- The iPad: into the post-PC era -- New battles: and echoes of old ones -- To infinity: the cloud, the spaceship, and beyond -- Round three: the twilight struggle -- Legacy: the brightest heaven of invention.
"Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years--as well as interviews with more than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues--Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in 21st century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with the author, he asked for no control over what was written. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. Steve Jobs is the inspiration for the movie of the same name starring Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels, directed by Danny Boyle with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin."--Amazon

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Very revealing book about Jobs, warts and all submitted by rickmktg on November 28, 2011, 1:55pm I hadn't read much about Steve Jobs over the years, followed his companies in the news, but never read a book about him. I knew he had quirks, and was a taskmaster of a manager.

When I heard about this book I thought I'd read it since I had read Paul Allen's book (co-founder of Microsoft), but that was an autobiography and very disjointed and lopsided.

Anyway, this book really gives you an in-depth view of Jobs from his acid-dropping, non-bathing days to his recent past, including refusing cancer treatment for 9 months and perhaps ending his life prematurely as a result. You learn of his radical viewpoints, very black and white, but really out there stuff. Every is a genius or an idiot, and often both in the same day. He doesn't accept responsibility for his first child (born out of wedlock) for many years, and even then only when forced to do so. Yet his responsibility is really only financial, he never shows her, or seemingly any of his children, much affection or attention.

Steve Jobs was a warped person, and this book gives you insight into that. His success at creating Apple, twice, is really due to creating products where the owner doesn't have to think to use it - which some love, and others including myself, hate. He made a lot of bad decisions in life, and of course many good ones, but never was satisfied and seems never happy. Throughout life he treated most people like garbage, belittling them and putting himself above everyone. He parked in handicapped spots because rules didn't apply to him. He's the kind of person I hope to never work for, or with.

I found the book hard to put down as I learned more and more about Jobs, but that doesn't mean it's well written. I read it because of my interest in Jobs' life, and found that the book hopped around too much for my liking.

I would recommend this for anyone wanting to learn more about the person that created the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and more.

Aw submitted by xjasx on June 16, 2012, 11:54pm I honestly did not know much about Steve Jobs, but as I read this, it made me realize how great of a man he was, the more I read the more I wanted to know about him and his success at apple

awesome submitted by philiptv on August 10, 2012, 4:17pm i recommend it

Great book submitted by tassosv on August 31, 2012, 9:43pm Very interesting history of Apple and Steve Jobs.

Fair submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on August 24, 2013, 1:57pm My husband may kick me for only giving this three stars... but he can write his own review!

About the book, here's the thing: while I was reading it, it really was fascinating. Jobs was a fascinating man who surrounded himself with interesting people and lived a truly compelling life. While I was reading, I was really sucked into the book. Isaacson did a great job gathering different perspectives, telling various (and not always complimentary) sides of the story, and organizing a vast amount of information -- some of it pretty geeky -- into a readable volume.

But by the time I got half way through the book, I'd had enough. If I wasn't actually reading it, I didn't really care if I picked it up or not. It was just too many pages about one egotistical, narcissistic, self-centered genius who was a bastard to work with and stole people's ideas without giving them credit, but also inspired people to accomplish things they never thought they could do and reinvented life as the First World knows it.

An interesting read submitted by crp on August 9, 2019, 9:12pm Steve Jobs was far from perfect, and this book does a nice job depicting his complexities.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2021
Year Published: 2021
Description: xxv, 639 pages, 16 unnumberd pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

READING LEVEL
Lexile: 1080

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781982176860
9781501127625

SUBJECTS
Jobs, Steve, -- 1955-2011.
Apple Computer, Inc. -- History.
Computer engineers -- United States -- Biography.
Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography.
Biographies.