Quote: from China Sailor on 2:57 am on Oct. 25, 2011
In a few days the authorized biography of Steve Jobs is going to be released and as expected there are some leaks.
It's been available for the past day. Your timing at inaccurate information is, as usual, uncanny.
Glad to see you *finally* seem to be interested in vetted sources, again - or is that only the case when it suits you? I'm still waiting for the source of the undocumented article and claims you so wholeheartedly embraced in that other thread...
I surprised you did not post this iDuck, if it has been available for so long. Afraid that some truth will come out.
Say iDuck, you are the one who makes accusations without vetting your resource. Really iDuck, APPL supported blogs do not count as vetted resources.
I guess it is beyond your intellectual capacity to read some truly reliable sources, WSJ, NYT, Chicago Sun, Washington Post, or even one of Jobs favorites.... Huffington post.
Nope, you google (funny that one can not apple) a subject until you find some obscure blogger that supports your opinion and then you post it as authoritative fact.
This is indeed one of the sad things about the internet age.... the predominance of bloggers who post from their emotions without taking a clear and unbiased view of the issue in hope that the masses being the ignorant folks they are will take it as gospel truth. Militants all.
Don't you worry about my opinions on Jobs though, I will give him his 'Hundred Days' of peace and I will return... with vetted and authoritative sources...
I was trying to reply to you, yet absolutely nothing you just wrote above makes any sense in the context of this thread, or even in the context of my last response to you.
Your endless diatribe ignores that the sources I posted have been exactly from the roster you listed - but then again, paying attention doesn't seem to be your strong suit, is it?
'Steve Jobs': 10 Biography Excerpts That Portray a Passionate, Intense Visionary
It's nearly impossible to shrink down Steve Jobs's legacy into mere sentences, but Walter Isaacson's comprehensive biography of the Apple chief somehow manages to do so in 571 pages. Isaacson (TIME's former managing editor) weaves together the story of a brilliant but heady, innovative but volatile leader. Here are Isaacson's 10 best brushstrokes in his painting of Steve Jobs.
On Persuasion
"It was not merely intelligence that [Jobs's fourth-grade teacher Mrs. Hill] saw. Years later she liked to show off a picture of that year's class on Hawaii Day. Jobs has shown up without the suggested Hawaiian shirt, but in the picture he is front and center wearing one. He had, literally, been able to talk the shirt off another kid's back."
On Personality
"Jobs's craziness was of the cultivated sort. [...] He learned to stare at people without blinking, and he perfected long silences punctuated by staccato bursts of fast talking. This odd mix of intensity and aloofness, combined with his shoulder-length hair and scraggly beard, gave him the aura of a crazed shaman. He oscillated between charismatic and creepy."
On Criticism
"Jobs did not wear his growing responsibilities gracefully. He had always been temperamental and bratty. At Atari his behavior had caused him to be banished to the night shift, but at Apple that was not possible. 'He became increasingly tyrannical and sharp in his criticism,' according to [Apple's first chairman Mike] Markkula. 'He would tell people, ‘That design looks like s--t.'”
On Efficiency
"Jobs had been referring to computers as a bicycle for the mind; the ability of humans to create a bicycle allowed them to move more efficiently than even a condor, and likewise the ability to create computers would multiply the efficiency of their minds. So one day Jobs decreed that henceforth the Macintosh should be known instead as the Bicycle. This did not go over well."
On Independence
"Another of Jobs's maxims […] was 'It's better to be a pirate than to join the navy.' He wanted to instill a rebel spirit in his team, to have them behave like swashbucklers who were proud of their work but willing to commandeer from others."
On Distinction
"Ever since he left the Apple commune, Jobs had defined himself, and by extension Apple, as a child of the counterculture. [...] 'Steve created the only lifestyle brand in the tech industry,' Larry Ellison said. 'There are cars people are proud to have — Porsche, Ferrari, Prius — because what I drive says something about me. People feel the same way about an Apple product.'"
On Cohesiveness
"The connection between the design of a product, its essence, and its manufacturing was illustrated for Jobs and [Apple's chief designer Jony] Ive when they were traveling in France and went into a kitchen supply store. Ive picked up a knife he admired, but then put it down in disappointment. Jobs did the same. 'We both noticed a tiny bit of glue between the handle and the blade,' Ive recalled. They talked about how the knife's good design had been ruined by the way it was manufactured."
On Selectivity
"When it came time to launch the iPhone, Jobs decided, as usual, to grant a magazine a special sneak preview...He wanted to give TIME the exclusive, 'but there's nobody smart enough at TIME to write it, so I'm going to give it to someone else.'" (The article indeed ended up being written by TIME's Lev Grossman).
On Taste
"He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that one was the best avocado ever grown and the other inedible."
On Leadership
“'I'm disappointed in Obama,' he said. 'He's having trouble leading because he's reluctant to offend people or piss them off.' He caught what I was thinking and assented with a little smile: 'Yes, that's not a problem I ever had.'"
Quote: from DaffyDuck on 2:56 am on Oct. 26, 2011 "He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that one was the best avocado ever grown and the other inedible."
Wow! OMG that is amazing!! I am a real convert.
This guy didn't really need Apple. Besides being the Apple wonder, he also was the Avocado genius. I wonder what else he could do with Onions.
Steve Jobs' Hilarious Response To Larry Ellison's Plan To Buy Apple So They Could Both Get Richer
Larry Ellison wanted to buy Apple in 1995 so his good friend Steve Jobs could return to power, and both of them could make a tidy profit. But, Jobs rejected the idea saying, "I'm not a hostile takeover kind of a guy." He wanted to be asked back into the fold at Apple, writes Walter Isaacson in Steve Jobs.
Jobs would be invited back to the company a year later when Apple CEO Gil Amelio began talking about buying Jobs' failing computer company NeXT.
When the deal was taking shape Jobs told Ellison, "You know, Larry, I think I've found a way for me to get back into Apple and get control of it without you having to buy it."
Ellison was happy for his friend, but pointed out that something was missing. He said to Jobs, "If we don't buy the company, then how can we make money?"
At this point Jobs got real close to Ellison and said, "Larry, this is why it's really important that I'm your friend. You don't need any more money."
Ellison agreed with that general sentiment, but thought it was stupid that some "fund manager at Fidelity" would make more money on Apple's success than he or Jobs.
Jobs responded by saying, "I think if I went back to Apple and didn't own any of Apple, and you didn't own any of Apple, I'd have the moral high ground."
Ellison's response: "Steve, that's really expensive real estate, this moral high ground."
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Steve Jobs biography has debuted at the top of the charts, and you can expect it to stay there for a long time.
Though official book sales figures from Nielsen will not be released for more than a week, "Steve Jobs" is already No. 1 on the Kindle bestseller list, the Nook bestseller list and the Apple iBookstore chart.
The authorized biography, written by Walter Isaacson, appeared in book stores yesterday, and the print and versions is already No. 1 on Amazon.com.
Industry analysts expect it to stay there for some time, and Amazon spokesperson Brittany Turner already told Reuters it could be the top-selling book of the year.
The October 5 death of the enigmatic Apple co-founder has prompted an outpouring of grief and testimonials, spurring publisher Simon & Schuster to move up the book's release from November 21 to Monday.
Isaacson, the former managing editor of Time magazine, has been on a whirlwind publicity tour, appearing on everything from CBS' "60 Minutes" to NPR's "Fresh Air."
Worldwide interest in Jobs' death also sped up Hollywood's pursuit of the book rights, which Sony snagged.
The genesis of the book dates to 2004, when Jobs asked Isaacson to writer his biography. Isaacson first turned it down, but then reconsidered given Jobs' deteriorating health.
