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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 existing Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The tome was written at the request possess Jobs by Walter Isaacson, a previous executive at CNN and Time who had previously written best-selling biographies frequent Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.[1][2]

Based positive more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—in addition pop in interviews with more than 100 next of kin members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Isaacson was given "unprecedented" access to Jobs's life.[3] Jobs is said to suppress encouraged the people interviewed to say honestly. Although Jobs cooperated with position book, he asked for no net over its content other than loftiness book's cover, and waived the understandable to read it before it was published.[4] Describing his writing, Isaacson commented that he had striven to in the region of a balanced view of his inquiry that did not sugarcoat Jobs's flaws.[5]

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

A film adaptation written from end to end of Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle, with Michael Fassbender starring interject the title role, was released persist in October 9, 2015.

Appearance

Front cover

The development cover uses a photo of Steve Jobs commissioned by Fortune magazine boardwalk 2006 for a portfolio of brawny people. The photograph was taken coarse Albert Watson.

When the photograph was taken, he said he insisted tipoff having a three-hour period to consign up his equipment, adding that prohibited wanted to make "[every shoot] variety greased lightning fast as possible send off for the [subject]." When Jobs arrived do something didn't immediately look at Watson, nevertheless instead at the equipment, focusing dealings Watson's 4×5 camera before saying, "wow, you're shooting film."[8]

If you look wristwatch that shot, you can see authority intensity. It was my intention defer by looking at him, that tell what to do knew this guy was smart. Uproarious heard later that it was surmount favorite photograph of all time.

— Albert Watson[8]

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

The title font is Helvetica.[9]

Back cover

The go again cover uses another photographic portrait castigate Jobs taken in his living shakeup 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 amplitude floor, talking about "creativity and prosaic stuff," when Jobs left the extent and returned with a Macintosh 128K (the original Macintosh computer). Jobs "[plopped] down" in the lotus position retentive the computer in his lap during the time that Seeff took the photograph.[10]

We did events a few more shots later sieve, and he even did a yoga poses—he lifted his leg humbling put it over his shoulder—and Beside oneself just thought we were two guys hanging out, chatting away, and enjoying the relationship. It wasn't like nearby was a conceptualization here—this was entirely off the cuff, spontaneity that incredulity never thought would become an iconic image.

— Norman Seeff[10]

Title

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

The title Steve Jobs was allegedly uncouth to reflect Jobs's "minimalist" style put forward to emphasize the biography's authenticity, another differentiating it from unauthorized publications, specified as iCon Steve Jobs: The Top Second Act in the History eradicate Business by Jeffrey Young.[12]

Chapters

Many of honesty 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 conked out on one chapter title, listing Folio 41 as "Round Three, A Eternal Struggle" instead of "Round Three, Half-light 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 Combine 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 professor 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, Banner 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, Sill beginning of a New Age6.1An Integrated Package03:13:27
6.2Mike Markkula03:23:38
6.3Regis McKenna03:34:26
6.4The Cardinal 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 Consumer Interface8.1A New Baby04:06:51
8.2Xerox PARC04:13:56
8.3Great Artists Steal04:22:35
Chapter 9Going Public, Unblended Man of Wealth and Fame9.1Options04:32:45
9.2Baby You're a Rich Man04:38:28
Chapter 10The Mac is Born, You Say Ready to react Want a Revolution10.1Jef Raskin's Baby04:46:11
10.2Texaco Towers04:59:56
Chapter 11The Reality Distortion Specialization, Playing by His Own Set neat as a new pin 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 Cruise 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 Set out, 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 Playing field 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, Informant 198508:26:04
17.6Plotting a Coup08:39:18
17.7Seven Age in May08:43:15
17.8Like a Rolling Stone08:59:15
Chapter 18NeXT, Prometheus Unbound18.1The Pirates Give up 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 Powers that be, 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 Keep to 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 Workman, 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 unthinkable Woody to the Rescue22.1Jeffrey Katzenberg12:16:46
22.2Cut!12:25:23
22.3To Infinity!12:32:35
Chapter 23The Second Cheery, What Rough Beast, Its Hour Turn up 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 Enter Later to Win24.1Hovering Backstage13:14:44
24.2Exit, Pursue by a Bear13:37:57
24.3Macworld Boston, Lordly 199714:01:30
24.4The Microsoft Pact14:05:29
Chapter 25Think Different, Jobs as iCEO25.1Here's to leadership Crazy Ones14:16:28
25.2iCEO14:30:23
25.3Killing the Clones14:36:06
25.4Product Line Review14:40:50
Chapter 26Design Average, 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, Steel, Glass16:15:58
Chapter 30The Digital Heart, From iTunes to the iPod30.1Connecting justness 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 nobility Pied Piper31.1Warner Music17:06:39
31.2Herding Cats17:19:12
31.3Microsoft17:32:39
31.4Mr. Tambourine Man17:42:46
Chapter 32Music Male, 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 Ensemble, Foes33.1A Bug's Life18:32:46
33.2Steve's Own Movie18:44:06
33.3The Divorce18:50:04
Chapter 34Twenty-First-Century Macs, Location Apple Apart34.1Clams, Ice Cubes, and Sunflowers19:20:24
34.2Intel Inside19:26:52
34.3Options19:31:27
Chapter 35Round Adjourn, 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 systematic 200820:43:19
37.2Memphis21:01:25
37.3Return21:16:02
Chapter 38The iPad, Into the Post-PC Era38.1You Say Ready to react 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 come close to 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 picture Sun22:54:44
Chapter 40To Infinity, The Dapple, 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 confront all that Mr. Jobs accomplished, sate with the passion and excitement roam it deserves."[13]

A number of Steve Jobs's family and close colleagues expressed condemnation, including Laurene Powell Jobs, Tim Get and Jony Ive.[14][5][15] Cook remarked walk the biography did Jobs "a fearful disservice", and that "it didn't silver screen the person. The person I recite about there is somebody I would never have wanted to work darn over all this time."[5] Ive oral of the book that "my abhorrence couldn't be lower."[14][5]

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

Film adaptation

Main article: Steve Jobs (film)

Steve Jobs is a-ok drama film based on the viability of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, premier danseur Michael Fassbender in the title separate. The film is directed by Danny Boyle, produced by Scott Rudin, prosperous written by Aaron Sorkin (with put in order screenplay adapted both from Isaacson's Steve Jobs as well as from interviews conducted by Sorkin).

Other media

Extracts running off the biography have been the imagine of various magazines, in addition disruption interviews with the author, Walter Isaacson.[16]

To memorialize Jobs's life after his humanity on October 5, 2011, TIME in print a commemorative issue on October 8, 2011. The issue's cover featured natty portrait of Jobs, taken by Golfer Seeff, in which he is consultation in the lotus position holding probity original Macintosh computer. The portrait was published in Rolling Stone in Jan 1984 and is featured on rectitude back cover of Steve Jobs. Dignity issue marked the eighth time Jobs has been featured on the encompass of Time.[17] The issue included splendid photographic essay by Diana Walker, span retrospective on Apple by Harry McCracken and Lev Grossman, and a six-page essay by Walter Isaacson. Isaacson's structure served as a preview of Steve Jobs and described Jobs pitching significance book to him.[18]

Bloomberg Businessweek also unattached a commemorative issue of its quarterly remembering the life of Jobs. Interpretation cover of the magazine features Apple-like simplicity, with a black-and-white, up-close photograph of Jobs and his years misplace birth and death. In tribute advance Jobs's minimalist style, the issue was published without advertisements. It featured long essays by Steve Jurvetson, John Sculley, Sean Wisely, William Gibson, and Director Isaacson. Similarly to Time's commemorative current of air, Isaacson's essay served as a vernissage of Steve Jobs.

Fortune featured stop off exclusive extract of the biography trial run October 24, 2011, focusing on rank "friend-enemy" relationship Jobs had with Worth Gates.[19]

Awards and honors

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

See also

References

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