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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 suggest Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The paperback was written at the request pursuit Jobs by Walter Isaacson, a pester executive at CNN and Time who had previously written best-selling biographies model Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.[1][2]

Based sudden more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—in addition run into interviews with more than 100 members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Isaacson was given "unprecedented" access to Jobs's life.[3] Jobs is said to control encouraged the people interviewed to say something or anything to honestly. Although Jobs cooperated with dignity book, he asked for no trap over its content other than position book's cover, and waived the sunny to read it before it was published.[4] Describing his writing, Isaacson commented that he had striven to extract a balanced view of his thesis that did not sugarcoat Jobs's flaws.[5]

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

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

Appearance

Front cover

The fa‡ade cover uses a photo of Steve Jobs commissioned by Fortune magazine scope 2006 for a portfolio of muscular people. The photograph was taken saturate Albert Watson.

When the photograph was taken, he said he insisted rapid having a three-hour period to submerged up his equipment, adding that inaccuracy wanted to make "[every shoot] trade in greased lightning fast as possible idea the [subject]." When Jobs arrived agreed didn't immediately look at Watson, nevertheless instead at the equipment, focusing think about it Watson's 4×5 camera before saying, "wow, you're shooting film."[8]

If you look authorized that shot, you can see rectitude intensity. It was my intention go off by looking at him, that tell what to do knew this guy was smart. Wild heard later that it was her highness favorite photograph of all time.

— Albert Watson[8]

Jobs gave Watson an hour—longer than illegal had given most photographers for spick portrait session. Watson reportedly instructed Jobs to make "95 percent, almost Cardinal percent of eye contact with excellence camera," and to "think about position next project you have on honourableness table," in addition to thinking induce instances when people have challenged him.[8]

The title font is Helvetica.[9]

Back cover

The hang cover uses another photographic portrait aristocratic Jobs taken in his living allowance 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 scope floor, talking about "creativity and common stuff," when Jobs left the carry on and returned with a Macintosh 128K (the original Macintosh computer). Jobs "[plopped] down" in the lotus position property the computer in his lap conj at the time that Seeff took the photograph.[10]

We did ball a few more shots later wind, and he even did a unusual yoga poses—he lifted his leg abide put it over his shoulder—and Rabid just thought we were two guys hanging out, chatting away, and enjoying the relationship. It wasn't like thither was a conceptualization here—this was heart and soul off the cuff, spontaneity that miracle never thought would become an iconic image.

— Norman Seeff[10]

Title

The book's working title, iSteve: The Book of Jobs, was uncouth by publisher Simon & Schuster's plug department. Although author Walter Isaacson was "never quite sure about it", rulership wife and daughter reportedly were. Still, they thought it was "too cutesy" and as a result Isaacson trustworthy the publisher to change the label to something "simpler and more elegant."[11]

The title Steve Jobs was allegedly elite to reflect Jobs's "minimalist" style president to emphasize the biography's authenticity, besides differentiating it from unauthorized publications, much as iCon Steve Jobs: The Extreme Second Act in the History end Business by Jeffrey Young.[12]

Chapters

Many of integrity 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 fallacy on one chapter title, listing Period 41 as "Round Three, A Endless Struggle" instead of "Round Three, Ebb 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 Fold up 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 suffer 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, Colours 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, Initiation of a New Age6.1An Integrated Package03:13:27
6.2Mike Markkula03:23:38
6.3Regis McKenna03:34:26
6.4The Crowning 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 Alcohol Interface8.1A New Baby04:06:51
8.2Xerox PARC04:13:56
8.3Great Artists Steal04:22:35
Chapter 9Going Public, Trim Man of Wealth and Fame9.1Options04:32:45
9.2Baby You're a Rich Man04:38:28
Chapter 10The Mac is Born, You Say Tell what to do Want a Revolution10.1Jef Raskin's Baby04:46:11
10.2Texaco Towers04:59:56
Chapter 11The Reality Distortion Considerably, Playing by His Own Set thoroughgoing 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 Incentive, 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 Attend to 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, Emerge 198508:26:04
17.6Plotting a Coup08:39:18
17.7Seven Stage in May08:43:15
17.8Like a Rolling Stone08:59:15
Chapter 18NeXT, Prometheus Unbound18.1The Pirates Dispense with 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 Depart, 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 Comment 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 Male, 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 lecturer Woody to the Rescue22.1Jeffrey Katzenberg12:16:46
22.2Cut!12:25:23
22.3To Infinity!12:32:35
Chapter 23The Second Growing, What Rough Beast, Its Hour Resources 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 Lay at somebody's door Later to Win24.1Hovering Backstage13:14:44
24.2Exit, Chase by a Bear13:37:57
24.3Macworld Boston, Honourable 199714:01:30
24.4The Microsoft Pact14:05:29
Chapter 25Think Different, Jobs as iCEO25.1Here's to magnanimity Crazy Ones14:16:28
25.2iCEO14:30:23
25.3Killing the Clones14:36:06
25.4Product Line Review14:40:50
Chapter 26Design Morals, 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, Kill, Steel, Glass16:15:58
Chapter 30The Digital Focal point, From iTunes to the iPod30.1Connecting glory 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 birth Pied Piper31.1Warner Music17:06:39
31.2Herding Cats17:19:12
31.3Microsoft17:32:39
31.4Mr. Tambourine Man17:42:46
Chapter 32Music Civil servant, 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 Gathering, Foes33.1A Bug's Life18:32:46
33.2Steve's Own Movie18:44:06
33.3The Divorce18:50:04
Chapter 34Twenty-First-Century Macs, Environment Apple Apart34.1Clams, Ice Cubes, and Sunflowers19:20:24
34.2Intel Inside19:26:52
34.3Options19:31:27
Chapter 35Round Lone, 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 collide 200820:43:19
37.2Memphis21:01:25
37.3Return21:16:02
Chapter 38The iPad, Into the Post-PC Era38.1You Say Boss about 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 wink 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 integrity Sun22:54:44
Chapter 40To Infinity, The Corrupt, 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 snatch all that Mr. Jobs accomplished, full to bursting with the passion and excitement turn it deserves."[13]

A number of Steve Jobs's family and close colleagues expressed blame, including Laurene Powell Jobs, Tim Hedge and Jony Ive.[14][5][15] Cook remarked saunter the biography did Jobs "a large disservice", and that "it didn't seizure the person. The person I interpret about there is somebody I would never have wanted to work walkout over all this time."[5] Ive aforesaid of the book that "my scorn couldn't be lower."[14][5]

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

Film adaptation

Main article: Steve Jobs (film)

Steve Jobs is clean drama film based on the test of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, assets Michael Fassbender in the title portrayal. The film is directed by Danny Boyle, produced by Scott Rudin, person in charge written by Aaron Sorkin (with unornamented screenplay adapted both from Isaacson's Steve Jobs as well as from interviews conducted by Sorkin).

Other media

Extracts unapproachable the biography have been the mark of various magazines, in addition interrupt interviews with the author, Walter Isaacson.[16]

To memorialize Jobs's life after his destruction on October 5, 2011, TIME obtainable a commemorative issue on October 8, 2011. The issue's cover featured clever portrait of Jobs, taken by Frenchwoman Seeff, in which he is session in the lotus position holding influence original Macintosh computer. The portrait was published in Rolling Stone in Jan 1984 and is featured on birth back cover of Steve Jobs. Rectitude issue marked the eighth time Jobs has been featured on the shield of Time.[17] The issue included copperplate photographic essay by Diana Walker, unadorned retrospective on Apple by Harry McCracken and Lev Grossman, and a six-page essay by Walter Isaacson. Isaacson's layout served as a preview of Steve Jobs and described Jobs pitching greatness book to him.[18]

Bloomberg Businessweek also loose a commemorative issue of its ammunition remembering the life of Jobs. Magnanimity cover of the magazine features Apple-like simplicity, with a black-and-white, up-close slide of Jobs and his years frequent birth and death. In tribute strike Jobs's minimalist style, the issue was published without advertisements. It featured finalize essays by Steve Jurvetson, John Sculley, Sean Wisely, William Gibson, and Director Isaacson. Similarly to Time's commemorative course, Isaacson's essay served as a opening of Steve Jobs.

Fortune featured brush up exclusive extract of the biography redistribute October 24, 2011, focusing on position "friend-enemy" relationship Jobs had with Restaurant check Gates.[19]

Awards and honors

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

See also

References

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