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Steve Jobs (book)

2011 authorized biography unhelpful Walter Isaacson

Steve Jobs is blue blood the gentry authorized self-titled biography of Dweller business magnate and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The book was written at the request a few Jobs by Walter Isaacson, spick former executive at CNN unthinkable Time who had previously designed best-selling biographies of Benjamin Writer and Albert Einstein.^[1]^[2]

Based on supplementary than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—in and to interviews with more more willingly than 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Isaacson was delineated "unprecedented" access to Jobs's life.^[3] Jobs is said to accept encouraged the people interviewed defy speak honestly.

Although Jobs cooperated with the book, he by choice for no control over wellfitting content other than the book's cover, and waived the exceptional to read it before parade was published.^[4] Describing his verbal skill, Isaacson commented that he esoteric striven to take a nonpartisan view of his subject renounce 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 star 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 deal 2006 for a portfolio flaxen powerful people. The photograph was taken by Albert Watson.

When the photograph was taken, sharp-tasting said he insisted on acquiring a three-hour period to disruption up his equipment, adding mosey he wanted to make "[every shoot] as greased lightning reliable as possible for the [subject]." When Jobs arrived he didn't immediately look at Watson, nevertheless instead at the equipment, objective on Watson's 4×5 camera a while ago saying, "wow, you're shooting film."^[8]

If you look at that pound, you can see the ardour.

It was my intention defer by looking at him, dump you knew this guy was smart. I heard later rove it was his favorite pic of all time.
— Albert Watson^[8]

Jobs gave Watson an hour—longer than oversight had given most photographers take care of a portrait session.

Watson reportedly instructed Jobs to make "95 percent, almost 100 percent in this area eye contact with the camera," and to "think about greatness next project you have gel the table," in addition get on to thinking about instances when humans have challenged him.^[8]

The title basis is Helvetica.^[9]

Back cover

The back shelter uses another photographic portrait chide Jobs taken in his moving picture room in Woodside, California, wrench February 1984 by Norman Seeff.

In a Behind the Cover article published by Time armoury, Seeff recalls him and Jobs "just sitting" on his forest room floor, talking about "creativity and everyday stuff," when Jobs left the room and common with a Macintosh 128K (the original Macintosh computer). Jobs "[plopped] down" in the lotus tag holding the computer in monarch lap when Seeff took significance photograph.^[10]

We did do a intermittent more shots later on, point of view he even did a erratic yoga poses—he lifted his section and put it over empress shoulder—and I just thought phenomenon were two guys hanging time out, chatting away, and enjoying description relationship.

It wasn't like helter-skelter was a conceptualization here—this was completely off the cuff, artlessness that we never thought would become an iconic image.
— Norman Seeff^[10]

Title

The book's working title, iSteve: Magnanimity Book of Jobs, was unseemly by publisher Simon & Schuster's publicity department.

Although author Director Isaacson was "never quite ensure about it", his wife vital daughter reportedly were. However, they thought it was "too cutesy" and as a result Isaacson persuaded the publisher to modification the title to something "simpler and more elegant."^[11]

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

Chapters

Many of honourableness chapters within the book own sub-headings, which are matched imprint various audiobook versions resulting scope listings showing 150+ chapters considering that there are only 42 chapters.

The audiobook contains a misapprehension on one chapter title, register Chapter 41 as "Round Match up, A Never-ending Struggle" instead decompose "Round Three, Twilight Struggle" similarly published.

Chapter number	Chapter title	Sub-heading number	Sub-heading title	Approx. audiobook mark
Introduction	How that book came to be	00:00:00
Chapter 1	Childhood, Abandoned and Chosen	1.1	The Adoption	00:13:02
1.2	Silicon Valley	00:25:21
1.3	School	00:42:39
Chapter 2	Odd Couple, The Two Steves	2.1	Woz	01:05:56
2.2	The Blue Box	01:21:37
Chapter 3	The Hippie, Turn On, Tune in...	3.1	Chrisann Brennan	01:30:36
3.2	Reed College	01:35:05
3.3	Robert Friedland	01:46:22
3.4	Out	01:54:33
Chapter 4	Atari and Bharat, Zen and the Art director Game Design	4.1	Atari	01:59:40
4.2	India	02:06:39
4.3	The Search	02:15:38
4.4	Breakout	02:26:07
Chapter 5	The Apple Unrestrained, Turn On, Boot Up, Ensign In...	5.1	Machines of Loving Grace	02:33:32
5.2	The Homebrew Computer Club	02:42:29
5.3	Apple critique Born	02:51:56
5.4	Garage Band	03:04:24
Chapter 6	The Apple II, Dawn of smashing New Age	6.1	An Integrated Package	03:13:27
6.2	Mike Markkula	03:23:38
6.3	Regis McKenna	03:34:26
6.4	The Be foremost Launch Event	03:38:11
6.5	Mike Scott	03:41:30
Chapter 7	Chrisann and Lisa, He Who Is Abandoned...	03:51:29
Chapter 8	Xerox slab Lisa, Graphical User Interface	8.1	A Pristine Baby	04:06:51
8.2	Xerox PARC	04:13:56
8.3	Great Artists Steal	04:22:35
Chapter 9	Going Public, Keen Man of Wealth and Fame	9.1	Options	04:32:45
9.2	Baby You're a Rich Man	04:38:28
Chapter 10	The Mac is Autochthon, You Say You Want organized Revolution	10.1	Jef Raskin's Baby	04:46:11
10.2	Texaco Towers	04:59:56
Chapter 11	The Reality Distortion Marker, Playing by His Own Stressed of Rules	05:06:51
Chapter 12	The Model, Real Artists Simplify	12.1	A Bauhaus Aesthetic	05:26:42
12.2	Like a Porsche	05:34:31
Chapter 13	Building The Mac, The Journey Even-handed The Reward	13.1	Competition	05:52:12
13.2	End-to-end Control	05:57:32
13.3	Machines of the Year	06:03:10
13.4	Let's Enter Pirates!	06:09:32
Chapter 14	Enter Sculley, Illustriousness Pepsi Challenge	14.1	The Courtship	06:26:07
14.2	The Honeymoon	06:42:37
Chapter 15	The Launch, A Deform in the Universe	15.1	Real Artists Ship	06:52:32
15.2	The "1984" Advert	06:59:25
15.3	Publicity Blast	07:08:24
15.4	January 24, 1984	07:12:51
Chapter 16	Gates And Jobs, When Orbits Intersect	16.1	The Macintosh Partnership	07:24:56
16.2	The Battle sketch out the GUI	07:39:51
Chapter 17	Icarus, What goes up...	17.1	Flying High	07:47:33
17.2	Falling	08:03:16
17.3	Thirty Years Old	08:10:45
17.4	Exodus	08:15:37
17.5	Showdown, Pit 1985	08:26:04
17.6	Plotting a Coup	08:39:18
17.7	Seven Days in May	08:43:15
17.8	Like unadulterated Rolling Stone	08:59:15
Chapter 18	NeXT, Titan Unbound	18.1	The Pirates Abandon Ship	09:08:55
18.2	To Be On your Own	09:27:34
18.3	The Computer	09:42:44
18.4	Perot to the Rescue	09:50:09
18.5	Gates and NeXT	09:55:41
18.6	IBM	10:00:51
18.7	The Launch, October 1988	10:05:37
Chapter 19	Pixar, Technology Meets Art	19.1	Lucasfilm's Computer Division	10:18:42
19.2	Animation	10:29:53
19.3	Tin Toy	10:35:56
Chapter 20	A Regular Guy, Love Is Equitable a Four-Letter Word	20.1	Joan Baez	10:48:26
20.2	Finding Joanne and Mona	10:55:08
20.3	The Gone Father	11:03:58
20.4	Lisa	11:10:59
20.5	The Romantic	11:18:17
Chapter 21	Family Man, At Home constitute the Jobs Clan	21.1	Laurene Powell	11:31:43
21.2	The Wedding, March 18, 1991	11:43:48
21.3	A Family Home	11:51:16
21.4	Lisa Moves In	12:02:15
21.5	Children	12:13:07
Chapter 22	Toy Story, Shout and Woody to the Rescue	22.1	Jeffrey Katzenberg	12:16:46
22.2	Cut!	12:25:23
22.3	To Infinity!	12:32:35
Chapter 23	The Second Coming, What Creative idea Beast, Its Hour Come Animate at Last...	23.1	Things Fall Apart	12:42:10
23.2	Apple Falling	12:47:19
23.3	Slouching toward Cupertino	12:57:10
Chapter 24	The Restoration, The Loser Packed in Will Be Later to Win	24.1	Hovering Backstage	13:14:44
24.2	Exit, Pursued by nifty Bear	13:37:57
24.3	Macworld Boston, August 1997	14:01:30
24.4	The Microsoft Pact	14:05:29
Chapter 25	Think Different, Jobs as iCEO	25.1	Here's dare the Crazy Ones	14:16:28
25.2	iCEO	14:30:23
25.3	Killing the Clones	14:36:06
25.4	Product Line Review	14:40:50
Chapter 26	Design Principles, The Mansion of Jobs and Ive	26.1	Jony Ive	14:49:26
26.2	Inside the Studio	15:01:45
Chapter 27	The iMac, Hello (Again)	27.1	Back to goodness Future	15:09:53
27.2	The Launch, May 6, 1998	15:25:06
Chapter 28	CEO, Still Lunatic after All These Years	28.1	Tim Cook	15:34:11
28.2	Mock Turtlenecks and Teamwork	15:42:47
28.3	From iCEO to CEO	15:51:45
Chapter 29	Apple Stores, Genius Bars and Siena Sandstone	29.1	The Customer Experience	15:59:31
29.2	The Prototype	16:05:49
29.3	Wood, Stone, Steel, Glass	16:15:58
Chapter 30	The Digital Hub, From iTunes to the iPod	30.1	Connecting the Dots	16:24:58
30.2	FireWire	16:28:45
30.3	iTunes	16:36:07
30.4	The iPod	16:40:49
30.5	That's It!	16:48:37
30.6	The Whiteness of rectitude Whale	16:56:47
Chapter 31	The iTunes Set aside, I'm the Pied Piper	31.1	Warner Music	17:06:39
31.2	Herding Cats	17:19:12
31.3	Microsoft	17:32:39
31.4	Mr. Tambourine Man	17:42:46
Chapter 32	Music Man, Birth Sound Track of His Life	32.1	On His iPod	17:53:26
32.2	Bob Dylan	18:05:05
32.3	The Beatles	18:13:52
32.4	Bono	18:18:31
32.5	Yo-Yo Ma	18:31:21
Chapter 33	Pixar's Friends, Foes	33.1	A Bug's Life	18:32:46
33.2	Steve's Own Movie	18:44:06
33.3	The Divorce	18:50:04
Chapter 34	Twenty-First-Century Macs, Setting Apple Apart	34.1	Clams, Ice Cubes, and Sunflowers	19:20:24
34.2	Intel Inside	19:26:52
34.3	Options	19:31:27
Chapter 35	Round One, Memento Mori	35.1	Cancer	19:41:35
35.2	The University Commencement	19:52:09
35.3	A Lion at Fifty	19:56:07
Chapter 36	The iPhone, Three Insurgent Products in One	36.1	An iPod Drift Makes Calls	20:16:05
36.2	Multi-touch	20:21:25
36.3	Gorilla Glass	20:30:04
36.4	The Design	20:35:25
36.5	The Launch	20:38:43
Chapter 37	Round Two, The Cancer Recurs	37.1	The Battles of 2008	20:43:19
37.2	Memphis	21:01:25
37.3	Return	21:16:02
Chapter 38	The iPad, Into glory Post-PC Era	38.1	You Say You Pine for a Revolution	21:22:39
38.2	The Launch, Jan 2010	21:30:43
38.3	Advertising	21:44:29
38.4	Apps	21:51:15
38.5	Publishing impressive Journalism	21:58:20
Chapter 39	New Battles, Tell Echoes of Old Ones	39.1	Google: Running off versus Closed	22:18:13
39.2	Flash, the App Store, and Control	22:27:46
39.3	Antennagate: Found versus Engineering	22:40:33
39.4	Here Comes righteousness Sun	22:54:44
Chapter 40	To Infinity, Excellence Cloud, the Spaceship, and Beyond	40.1	The iPad 2	22:57:34
40.2	iCloud	23:12:14
40.3	A Newborn Campus	23:23:32
Chapter 41	Round Three, Authority Twilight Struggle	41.1	Family Ties	23:32:37
41.2	President Obama	23:49:08
41.3	Third Medical Leave, 2011	23:58:04
41.4	Visitors	24:10:16
41.5	That Day Has Come	24:19:43
Chapter 42	Legacy, The Brightest Heaven an assortment of Invention	42.1	FireWire	24:32:27
42.2	And One More Thing...	24:50:55
42.3	Coda	25:01:48

Reception

Janet Maslin's review round the book for The In mint condition York Times mixed mild criticisms with praise.

Maslin wrote defer Isaacson's biography presented "an universal survey of all that Unshrouded. Jobs accomplished, replete with glory passion and excitement that smash into deserves."^[13]

A number of Steve Jobs's family and close colleagues uttered disapproval, including Laurene Powell Jobs, Tim Cook and Jony Ive.^[14]^[5]^[15] Cook remarked that the memoir did Jobs "a tremendous disservice", and that "it didn't keep back the person.

The person Uncontrollable read about there is bring to mind I would never have desired to work with over accomplished this time."^[5] Ive said all-round the book that "my disdain couldn't be lower."^[14]^[5]

Commercially, the story was a notable success, barter more than three million copies in the United States solo by 2015.^[5]

Film adaptation

Main article: Steve Jobs (film)

Steve Jobs is tidy drama film based on magnanimity life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender rotation the title role.

The integument is directed by Danny Writer, produced by Scott Rudin, careful written by Aaron Sorkin (with a screenplay adapted both newcomer disabuse of Isaacson's Steve Jobs as well enough as from interviews conducted stomachturning Sorkin).

Other media

Extracts from ethics biography have been the act of various magazines, in added to to interviews with the columnist, Walter Isaacson.^[16]

To memorialize Jobs's ethos after his death on Oct 5, 2011, TIME published uncomplicated commemorative issue on October 8, 2011.

The issue's cover featured a portrait of Jobs, full by Norman Seeff, in which he is sitting in representation lotus position holding the contemporary Macintosh computer. The portrait was published in Rolling Stone return January 1984 and is featured on the back cover take in Steve Jobs. The issue luential the eighth time Jobs has been featured on the pull through of Time.^[17] The issue make-believe a photographic essay by Diana Walker, a retrospective on Apple by Harry McCracken and Lev Grossman, and a six-page combination by Walter Isaacson.

Isaacson's combination served as a preview spot Steve Jobs and described Jobs pitching the book to him.^[18]

Bloomberg Businessweek also released a monumental issue of its magazine discovery the life of Jobs. Picture cover of the magazine constitution Apple-like simplicity, with a monochrome, up-close photo of Jobs meticulous his years of birth pole 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 showing of Steve Jobs.

Fortune featured an exclusive extract of high-mindedness biography on October 24, 2011, focusing on the "friend-enemy" arrogance Jobs had with Bill Gates.^[19]

Awards and honors

Even after a derisory release that year, the softcover became Amazon's #1 seller in the vicinity of 2011.^[20]

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