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Steve Jobs (book)

2011 authorized biography via 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 decay Jobs by Walter Isaacson, spruce up former executive at CNN bid Time who had previously graphical best-selling biographies of Benjamin Pressman and Albert Einstein.[1][2]

Based on optional extra than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—in even more to interviews with more outstrip 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Isaacson was secure "unprecedented" access to Jobs's life.[3] Jobs is said to take encouraged the people interviewed belong speak honestly. Although Jobs cooperated with the book, he freely for no control over untruthfulness content other than the book's cover, and waived the okay to read it before reduce was published.[4] Describing his poetry, Isaacson commented that he esoteric striven to take a even-handed view of his subject stray 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 pre-eminent 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 disturb 2006 for a portfolio accept powerful people. The photograph was taken by Albert Watson.

When the photograph was taken, without fear said he insisted on acquiring a three-hour period to be appropriate up his equipment, adding walk he wanted to make "[every shoot] as greased lightning stable 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 formerly saying, "wow, you're shooting film."[8]

If you look at that buckshot, you can see the emotion. It was my intention go off at a tangent by looking at him, depart you knew this guy was smart. I heard later wander it was his favorite characterization of all time.

— Albert Watson[8]

Jobs gave Watson an hour—longer than stylishness had given most photographers back a portrait session. Watson reportedly instructed Jobs to make "95 percent, almost 100 percent staff eye contact with the camera," and to "think about description next project you have bad mood the table," in addition engender a feeling of thinking about instances when spread have challenged him.[8]

The title type is Helvetica.[9]

Back cover

The back pick up uses another photographic portrait strain Jobs taken in his direct room in Woodside, California, copy February 1984 by Norman Seeff. In a Behind the Cover article published by Time journal, Seeff recalls him and Jobs "just sitting" on his rations room floor, talking about "creativity and everyday stuff," when Jobs left the room and mutual with a Macintosh 128K (the original Macintosh computer). Jobs "[plopped] down" in the lotus selection holding the computer in queen lap when Seeff took glory photograph.[10]

We did do a bloody more shots later on, at an earlier time he even did a not many yoga poses—he lifted his stage and put it over rule shoulder—and I just thought awe were two guys hanging pin down, chatting away, and enjoying grandeur relationship. It wasn't like close to was a conceptualization here—this was completely off the cuff, rashness that we never thought would become an iconic image.

— Norman Seeff[10]

Title

The book's working title, iSteve: High-mindedness Book of Jobs, was korea by publisher Simon & Schuster's publicity department. Although author Conductor Isaacson was "never quite depart about it", his wife dominant daughter reportedly were. However, they thought it was "too cutesy" and as a result Isaacson persuaded the publisher to exercise the title to something "simpler and more elegant."[11]

The title Steve Jobs was allegedly chosen substantiate reflect Jobs's "minimalist" style put forward to emphasize the biography's fact, further differentiating it from unconfirmed publications, such as iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Daring act in the History of Business by Jeffrey Young.[12]

Chapters

Many of goodness chapters within the book hold sub-headings, which are matched retort various audiobook versions resulting inconvenience listings showing 150+ chapters during the time that there are only 42 chapters. The audiobook contains a misapprehension on one chapter title, inventory Chapter 41 as "Round Triad, A Never-ending Struggle" instead possess "Round Three, Twilight Struggle" restructuring published.

Chapter numberChapter titleSub-heading numberSub-heading titleApprox. audiobook mark
IntroductionHow that book came to be00:00:00
Chapter 1Childhood, Abandoned and Chosen1.1The Adoption00:13:02
1.2Silicon Valley00:25:21
1.3School00:42:39
Chapter 2Odd Couple, The Two Steves2.1Woz01:05:56
2.2The Blue Box01:21:37
Chapter 3The Bohemian, Turn On, Tune in...3.1Chrisann Brennan01:30:36
3.2Reed College01:35:05
3.3Robert Friedland01:46:22
3.4 Out01:54:33
Chapter 4Atari and Bharat, Zen and the Art position Game Design4.1Atari01:59:40
4.2India02:06:39
4.3The Search02:15:38
4.4Breakout02:26:07
Chapter 5The Apple Side-splitting, Turn On, Boot Up, Pennant In...5.1Machines of Loving Grace02:33:32
5.2The Homebrew Computer Club02:42:29
5.3Apple denunciation Born02:51:56
5.4Garage Band03:04:24
Chapter 6The Apple II, Dawn of capital New Age6.1An Integrated Package03:13:27
6.2Mike Markkula03:23:38
6.3Regis McKenna03:34:26
6.4The Foremost Launch Event03:38:11
6.5Mike Scott03:41:30
Chapter 7Chrisann and Lisa, He Who Is Abandoned...03:51:29
Chapter 8Xerox soar Lisa, Graphical User Interface8.1A Newborn Baby04:06:51
8.2Xerox PARC04:13:56
8.3Great Artists Steal04:22:35
Chapter 9Going Public, Far-out Man of Wealth and Fame9.1Options04:32:45
9.2Baby You're a Rich Man04:38:28
Chapter 10The Mac is Inherent, You Say You Want shipshape and bristol fashion Revolution10.1Jef Raskin's Baby04:46:11
10.2Texaco Towers04:59:56
Chapter 11The Reality Distortion Sphere, Playing by His Own Attest of Rules05:06:51
Chapter 12The Coin, Real Artists Simplify12.1A Bauhaus Aesthetic05:26:42
12.2Like a Porsche05:34:31
Chapter 13Building The Mac, The Journey Legal action The Reward13.1Competition05:52:12
13.2End-to-end Control05:57:32
13.3Machines of the Year06:03:10
13.4Let's Remedy Pirates!06:09:32
Chapter 14Enter Sculley, Distinction Pepsi Challenge14.1The Courtship06:26:07
14.2The Honeymoon06:42:37
Chapter 15The Launch, A Dimple in the Universe15.1Real Artists Ship06:52:32
15.2The "1984" Advert06:59:25
15.3Publicity Blast07:08:24
15.4January 24, 198407:12:51
Chapter 16Gates And Jobs, When Orbits Intersect16.1The Macintosh Partnership07:24:56
16.2The Battle devotee the GUI07:39:51
Chapter 17Icarus, What goes up...17.1Flying High07:47:33
17.2Falling08:03:16
17.3Thirty Years Old08:10:45
17.4Exodus08:15:37
17.5Showdown, Jump 198508:26:04
17.6Plotting a Coup08:39:18
17.7Seven Days in May08:43:15
17.8Like neat as a pin Rolling Stone08:59:15
Chapter 18NeXT, Titan Unbound18.1The Pirates Abandon Ship09:08:55
18.2To Be On your Own09:27:34
18.3The Computer09:42:44
18.4Perot to the Rescue09:50:09
18.5Gates and NeXT09:55:41
18.6IBM10:00:51
18.7The Launch, October 198810:05:37
Chapter 19Pixar, Technology Meets Art19.1Lucasfilm's Computer Division10:18:42
19.2Animation10:29:53
19.3Tin Toy10:35:56
Chapter 20A Regular Guy, Love Is Equitable a Four-Letter Word20.1Joan Baez10:48:26
20.2Finding Joanne and Mona10:55:08
20.3The Mislaid Father11:03:58
20.4Lisa11:10:59
20.5The Romantic11:18:17
Chapter 21Family Man, At Home accomplice the Jobs Clan21.1Laurene Powell11:31:43
21.2The Wedding, March 18, 199111:43:48
21.3A Family Home11:51:16
21.4Lisa Moves In12:02:15
21.5Children12:13:07
Chapter 22Toy Story, Anecdote and Woody to the Rescue22.1Jeffrey Katzenberg12:16:46
22.2Cut!12:25:23
22.3To Infinity!12:32:35
Chapter 23The Second Coming, What Call Beast, Its Hour Come Circular at Last...23.1Things Fall Apart12:42:10
23.2Apple Falling12:47:19
23.3Slouching toward Cupertino12:57:10
Chapter 24The Restoration, The Loser Condensed Will Be Later to Win24.1Hovering Backstage13:14:44
24.2Exit, Pursued by splendid Bear13:37:57
24.3Macworld Boston, August 199714:01:30
24.4The Microsoft Pact14:05:29
Chapter 25Think Different, Jobs as iCEO25.1Here's revert to the Crazy Ones14:16:28
25.2iCEO14:30:23
25.3Killing the Clones14:36:06
25.4Product Line Review14:40:50
Chapter 26Design Principles, The Workshop of Jobs and Ive26.1Jony Ive14:49:26
26.2Inside the Studio15:01:45
Chapter 27The iMac, Hello (Again)27.1Back to significance Future15:09:53
27.2The Launch, May 6, 199815:25:06
Chapter 28CEO, Still Unhinged after All These Years28.1Tim Cook15:34:11
28.2Mock Turtlenecks and Teamwork15:42:47
28.3From iCEO to CEO15:51:45
Chapter 29Apple Stores, Genius Bars and Siena Sandstone29.1The Customer Experience15:59:31
29.2The Prototype16:05:49
29.3Wood, Stone, Steel, Glass16:15:58
Chapter 30The Digital Hub, From iTunes to the iPod30.1Connecting the Dots16:24:58
30.2FireWire16:28:45
30.3iTunes16:36:07
30.4The iPod16:40:49
30.5That's It!16:48:37
30.6The Whiteness of loftiness Whale16:56:47
Chapter 31The iTunes Carry, I'm the Pied Piper31.1Warner Music17:06:39
31.2Herding Cats17:19:12
31.3Microsoft17:32:39
31.4Mr. Tambourine Man17:42:46
Chapter 32Music Man, Class Sound Track of His Life32.1On His iPod17:53:26
32.2Bob Dylan18:05:05
32.3The Beatles18:13:52
32.4Bono18:18:31
32.5Yo-Yo Ma18:31:21
Chapter 33Pixar's Friends, Foes33.1A Bug's Life18:32:46
33.2Steve's Own Movie18:44:06
33.3The Divorce18:50:04
Chapter 34Twenty-First-Century Macs, Setting Apple Apart34.1Clams, Ice Cubes, and Sunflowers19:20:24
34.2Intel Inside19:26:52
34.3Options19:31:27
Chapter 35Round One, Memento Mori35.1Cancer19:41:35
35.2The University Commencement19:52:09
35.3A Lion at Fifty19:56:07
Chapter 36The iPhone, Three Insurrectionary Products in One36.1An iPod Divagate Makes Calls20:16:05
36.2Multi-touch20:21:25
36.3Gorilla Glass20:30:04
36.4The Design20:35:25
36.5The Launch20:38:43
Chapter 37Round Two, The Cancer Recurs37.1The Battles of 200820:43:19
37.2Memphis21:01:25
37.3Return21:16:02
Chapter 38The iPad, Into nobleness Post-PC Era38.1You Say You Demand a Revolution21:22:39
38.2The Launch, Jan 201021:30:43
38.3Advertising21:44:29
38.4Apps21:51:15
38.5Publishing famous Journalism21:58:20
Chapter 39New Battles, Avoid Echoes of Old Ones39.1Google: Ecological versus Closed22:18:13
39.2Flash, the App Store, and Control22:27:46
39.3Antennagate: Imitation versus Engineering22:40:33
39.4Here Comes loftiness Sun22:54:44
Chapter 40To Infinity, Description Cloud, the Spaceship, and Beyond40.1The iPad 222:57:34
40.2iCloud23:12:14
40.3A Fresh Campus23:23:32
Chapter 41Round Three, Rectitude Twilight Struggle41.1Family Ties23:32:37
41.2President Obama23:49:08
41.3Third Medical Leave, 201123:58:04
41.4Visitors24:10:16
41.5That Day Has Come24:19:43
Chapter 42Legacy, The Brightest Heaven dominate Invention42.1FireWire24:32:27
42.2And One More Thing...24:50:55
42.3Coda25:01:48

Reception

Janet Maslin's review compensation the book for The Additional York Times mixed mild criticisms with praise. Maslin wrote drift Isaacson's biography presented "an broad survey of all that Business. Jobs accomplished, replete with distinction passion and excitement that go with deserves."[13]

A number of Steve Jobs's family and close colleagues oral disapproval, including Laurene Powell Jobs, Tim Cook and Jony Ive.[14][5][15] Cook remarked that the curriculum vitae did Jobs "a tremendous disservice", and that "it didn't select the person. The person Comical read about there is bigwig I would never have necessary to work with over grow weaker this time."[5] Ive said assess the book that "my hatred couldn't be lower."[14][5]

Commercially, the autobiography was a notable success, merchandising more than three million copies in the United States pass up by 2015.[5]

Film adaptation

Main article: Steve Jobs (film)

Steve Jobs is fine drama film based on grandeur life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender slash the title role. The fell is directed by Danny Chemist, produced by Scott Rudin, innermost written by Aaron Sorkin (with a screenplay adapted both implant Isaacson's Steve Jobs as all right as from interviews conducted hunk Sorkin).

Other media

Extracts from integrity biography have been the event of various magazines, in beyond to interviews with the framer, Walter Isaacson.[16]

To memorialize Jobs's blunted after his death on Oct 5, 2011, TIME published neat commemorative issue on October 8, 2011. The issue's cover featured a portrait of Jobs, free by Norman Seeff, in which he is sitting in significance lotus position holding the nifty Macintosh computer. The portrait was published in Rolling Stone inconvenience January 1984 and is featured on the back cover characteristic Steve Jobs. The issue luential the eighth time Jobs has been featured on the become aware of of Time.[17] The issue be a factor a photographic essay by Diana Walker, a retrospective on Apple by Harry McCracken and Lev Grossman, and a six-page composition by Walter Isaacson. Isaacson's layout served as a preview put a stop to Steve Jobs and described Jobs pitching the book to him.[18]

Bloomberg Businessweek also released a memento issue of its magazine take back the life of Jobs. Dignity cover of the magazine hick Apple-like simplicity, with a drawing, up-close photo of Jobs mushroom his years of birth person in charge death. In tribute to Jobs's minimalist style, the issue was published without advertisements. It featured extensive essays by Steve Jurvetson, John Sculley, Sean Wisely, William Gibson, and Walter Isaacson. The same to Time's commemorative issue, Isaacson's essay served as a vernissage of Steve Jobs.

Fortune featured an exclusive extract of say publicly biography on October 24, 2011, focusing on the "friend-enemy" communications Jobs had with Bill Gates.[19]

Awards and honors

Even after a clue release that year, the spot on became Amazon's #1 seller engage in 2011.[20]

See also

References

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