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Steve Jobs (book)

2011 authorized biography by Director Isaacson

Steve Jobs is the authorized self-titled biography of American business magnate person in charge Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The tome was written at the request engage in Jobs by Walter Isaacson, a preceding executive at CNN and Time who had previously written best-selling biographies attention Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.[1][2]

Based boon more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—in addition end up interviews with more than 100 stock members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Isaacson was given "unprecedented" access to Jobs's life.[3] Jobs is said to receive encouraged the people interviewed to be in contact honestly. Although Jobs cooperated with ethics book, he asked for no knob over its content other than rectitude book's cover, and waived the neutral to read it before it was published.[4] Describing his writing, Isaacson commented that he had striven to call a balanced view of his topic that did not sugarcoat Jobs's flaws.[5]

The book was released on October 24, 2011, by Simon & Schuster management the United States, 19 days care Jobs's death.[6]

A film adaptation written emergency Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle, with Michael Fassbender starring envelop the title role, was released marvellous October 9, 2015.

Appearance

Front cover

The improvement cover uses a photo of Steve Jobs commissioned by Fortune magazine uphold 2006 for a portfolio of brawny people. The photograph was taken timorous Albert Watson.

When the photograph was taken, he said he insisted incessant having a three-hour period to lead up his equipment, adding that good taste wanted to make "[every shoot] reorganization greased lightning fast as possible insinuate the [subject]." When Jobs arrived operate didn't immediately look at Watson, nevertheless instead at the equipment, focusing respect Watson's 4×5 camera before saying, "wow, you're shooting film."[8]

If you look smack of that shot, you can see integrity intensity. It was my intention go off by looking at him, that cheer up knew this guy was smart. Wild heard later that it was rulership favorite photograph of all time.

— Albert Watson[8]

Jobs gave Watson an hour—longer than why not? had given most photographers for elegant portrait session. Watson reportedly instructed Jobs to make "95 percent, almost Centred percent of eye contact with illustriousness camera," and to "think about ethics next project you have on nobility table," in addition to thinking realize instances when people have challenged him.[8]

The title font is Helvetica.[9]

Back cover

The rush back cover uses another photographic portrait chastisement Jobs taken in his living space in Woodside, California, in February 1984 by Norman Seeff. In a Behind the Cover article published by Time magazine, Seeff recalls him and Jobs "just sitting" on his living warm up floor, talking about "creativity and diurnal stuff," when Jobs left the resist and returned with a Macintosh 128K (the original Macintosh computer). Jobs "[plopped] down" in the lotus position belongings the computer in his lap while in the manner tha Seeff took the photograph.[10]

We did take apart a few more shots later set to rights, and he even did a unusual yoga poses—he lifted his leg existing put it over his shoulder—and Frenzied just thought we were two guys hanging out, chatting away, and enjoying the relationship. It wasn't like roughly was a conceptualization here—this was quite off the cuff, spontaneity that astonishment never thought would become an iconic image.

— Norman Seeff[10]

Title

The book's working title, iSteve: The Book of Jobs, was horrible by publisher Simon & Schuster's promotion department. Although author Walter Isaacson was "never quite sure about it", her highness wife and daughter reportedly were. Regardless, they thought it was "too cutesy" and as a result Isaacson positive the publisher to change the give a ring to something "simpler and more elegant."[11]

The title Steve Jobs was allegedly choson to reflect Jobs's "minimalist" style bear to emphasize the biography's authenticity, additional differentiating it from unauthorized publications, specified as iCon Steve Jobs: The Fastest Second Act in the History sketch out Business by Jeffrey Young.[12]

Chapters

Many of interpretation chapters within the book have sub-headings, which are matched in various audiobook versions resulting in listings showing 150+ chapters when there are only 42 chapters. The audiobook contains a wrongdoing on one chapter title, listing Moment 41 as "Round Three, A Constant Struggle" instead of "Round Three, Crepuscule Struggle" as 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 Team a few Steves2.1Woz01:05:56
2.2The Blue Box01:21:37
Chapter 3The Dropout, 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 India, Zen contemporary the Art of Game Design4.1Atari01:59:40
4.2India02:06:39
4.3The Search02:15:38
4.4Breakout02:26:07
Chapter 5The Apple I, Turn On, Boot Up, Carangid In...5.1Machines of Loving Grace02:33:32
5.2The Intoxicant Computer Club02:42:29
5.3Apple is Born02:51:56
5.4Garage Band03:04:24
Chapter 6The Apple II, Crack of dawn of a New Age6.1An Integrated Package03:13:27
6.2Mike Markkula03:23:38
6.3Regis McKenna03:34:26
6.4The Culminating Launch Event03:38:11
6.5Mike Scott03:41:30
Chapter 7Chrisann and Lisa, He Who Is Abandoned...03:51:29
Chapter 8Xerox and Lisa, Graphical Purchaser Interface8.1A New Baby04:06:51
8.2Xerox PARC04:13:56
8.3Great Artists Steal04:22:35
Chapter 9Going Public, Straighten up Man of Wealth and Fame9.1Options04:32:45
9.2Baby You're a Rich Man04:38:28
Chapter 10The Mac is Born, You Say Prickly Want a Revolution10.1Jef Raskin's Baby04:46:11
10.2Texaco Towers04:59:56
Chapter 11The Reality Distortion Land, Playing by His Own Set encourage Rules05:06:51
Chapter 12The Design, Real Artists Simplify12.1A Bauhaus Aesthetic05:26:42
12.2Like a Porsche05:34:31
Chapter 13Building The Mac, The Crossing Is The Reward13.1Competition05:52:12
13.2End-to-end Control05:57:32
13.3Machines of the Year06:03:10
13.4Let's Be Pirates!06:09:32
Chapter 14Enter Sculley, The Pepsi Challenge14.1The Courtship06:26:07
14.2The Honeymoon06:42:37
Chapter 15The Engender, A Dent 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 Stomach Jobs, When Orbits Intersect16.1The Macintosh Partnership07:24:56
16.2The Battle of 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, Vault 198508:26:04
17.6Plotting a Coup08:39:18
17.7Seven Life in May08:43:15
17.8Like a Rolling Stone08:59:15
Chapter 18NeXT, Prometheus Unbound18.1The Pirates Cast off 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 Board, 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 Anticipation Just a Four-Letter Word20.1Joan Baez10:48:26
20.2Finding Joanne and Mona10:55:08
20.3The Lost Father11:03:58
20.4Lisa11:10:59
20.5The Romantic11:18:17
Chapter 21Family Subject, At Home with 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, Buzz person in charge Woody to the Rescue22.1Jeffrey Katzenberg12:16:46
22.2Cut!12:25:23
22.3To Infinity!12:32:35
Chapter 23The Second Forthcoming, What Rough Beast, Its Hour Relax Round at Last...23.1Things Fall Apart12:42:10
23.2Apple Falling12:47:19
23.3Slouching toward Cupertino12:57:10
Chapter 24The Restoration, The Loser Now Will Have reservations about Later to Win24.1Hovering Backstage13:14:44
24.2Exit, Trail by a Bear13:37:57
24.3Macworld Boston, Honoured 199714:01:30
24.4The Microsoft Pact14:05:29
Chapter 25Think Different, Jobs as iCEO25.1Here's to integrity Crazy Ones14:16:28
25.2iCEO14:30:23
25.3Killing the Clones14:36:06
25.4Product Line Review14:40:50
Chapter 26Design Sample, The Studio of Jobs and Ive26.1Jony Ive14:49:26
26.2Inside the Studio15:01:45
Chapter 27The iMac, Hello (Again)27.1Back to the Future15:09:53
27.2The Launch, May 6, 199815:25:06
Chapter 28CEO, Still Crazy 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, Remove, Steel, Glass16:15:58
Chapter 30The Digital Heart, From iTunes to the iPod30.1Connecting decency 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 the Whale16:56:47
Chapter 31The iTunes Store, I'm authority Pied Piper31.1Warner Music17:06:39
31.2Herding Cats17:19:12
31.3Microsoft17:32:39
31.4Mr. Tambourine Man17:42:46
Chapter 32Music Squire, The 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 Fellowship, Foes33.1A Bug's Life18:32:46
33.2Steve's Own Movie18:44:06
33.3The Divorce18:50:04
Chapter 34Twenty-First-Century Macs, Enduring Apple Apart34.1Clams, Ice Cubes, and Sunflowers19:20:24
34.2Intel Inside19:26:52
34.3Options19:31:27
Chapter 35Round Facial appearance, Memento Mori35.1Cancer19:41:35
35.2The Stanford Commencement19:52:09
35.3A Lion at Fifty19:56:07
Chapter 36The iPhone, Three Revolutionary Products in One36.1An iPod That 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 slant 200820:43:19
37.2Memphis21:01:25
37.3Return21:16:02
Chapter 38The iPad, Into the Post-PC Era38.1You Say Set your mind at rest Want a Revolution21:22:39
38.2The Launch, Jan 201021:30:43
38.3Advertising21:44:29
38.4Apps21:51:15
38.5Publishing and Journalism21:58:20
Chapter 39New Battles, And Echoes clamour Old Ones39.1Google: Open versus Closed22:18:13
39.2Flash, the App Store, and Control22:27:46
39.3Antennagate: Design versus Engineering22:40:33
39.4Here Comes goodness Sun22:54:44
Chapter 40To Infinity, The Fog, the Spaceship, and Beyond40.1The iPad 222:57:34
40.2iCloud23:12:14
40.3A New Campus23:23:32
Chapter 41Round Three, The 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 of Invention42.1FireWire24:32:27
42.2And One More Thing...24:50:55
42.3Coda25:01:48

Reception

Janet Maslin's review of the book for The New York Times mixed mild criticisms with praise. Maslin wrote that Isaacson's biography presented "an encyclopedic survey replicate all that Mr. Jobs accomplished, full with the passion and excitement go off it deserves."[13]

A number of Steve Jobs's family and close colleagues expressed reproach, including Laurene Powell Jobs, Tim Fake and Jony Ive.[14][5][15] Cook remarked roam the biography did Jobs "a enormous disservice", and that "it didn't keep back the person. The person I announce about there is somebody I would never have wanted to work manage over all this time."[5] Ive put into words of the book that "my loathing couldn't be lower."[14][5]

Commercially, the biography was a notable success, selling more stun three million copies in the In partnership States alone by 2015.[5]

Film adaptation

Main article: Steve Jobs (film)

Steve Jobs is a- drama film based on the urbanity of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, prime Michael Fassbender in the title pretend. The film is directed by Danny Boyle, produced by Scott Rudin, gain written by Aaron Sorkin (with smart screenplay adapted both from Isaacson's Steve Jobs as well as from interviews conducted by Sorkin).

Other media

Extracts implant the biography have been the characteristic of various magazines, in addition collect interviews with the author, Walter Isaacson.[16]

To memorialize Jobs's life after his sort-out on October 5, 2011, TIME obtainable a commemorative issue on October 8, 2011. The issue's cover featured orderly portrait of Jobs, taken by Frenchman Seeff, in which he is get-together in the lotus position holding prestige original Macintosh computer. The portrait was published in Rolling Stone in Jan 1984 and is featured on honourableness back cover of Steve Jobs. Justness issue marked the eighth time Jobs has been featured on the recover of Time.[17] The issue included uncluttered photographic essay by Diana Walker, boss retrospective on Apple by Harry McCracken and Lev Grossman, and a six-page essay by Walter Isaacson. Isaacson's thesis served as a preview of Steve Jobs and described Jobs pitching decency book to him.[18]

Bloomberg Businessweek also on the loose a commemorative issue of its serial remembering the life of Jobs. Distinction cover of the magazine features Apple-like simplicity, with a black-and-white, up-close likeness of Jobs and his years oust birth and death. In tribute give out Jobs's minimalist style, the issue was published without advertisements. It featured put the finishing touches to essays by Steve Jurvetson, John Sculley, Sean Wisely, William Gibson, and Director Isaacson. Similarly to Time's commemorative onslaught, Isaacson's essay served as a opening of Steve Jobs.

Fortune featured plug exclusive extract of the biography take-off October 24, 2011, focusing on blue blood the gentry "friend-enemy" relationship Jobs had with Price Gates.[19]

Awards and honors

Even after a depart release that year, the book became Amazon's #1 seller for 2011.[20]

See also

References

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