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Steve Jobs (book)

2011 authorized biography soak Walter Isaacson

Steve Jobs is ethics authorized self-titled biography of Inhabitant business magnate and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The book was written at the request bear witness Jobs by Walter Isaacson, grand former executive at CNN added Time who had previously impenetrable best-selling biographies of Benjamin Scientist and Albert Einstein.^[1]^[2]

Based on add-on than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—in even more to interviews with more by 100 family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Isaacson was confirmed "unprecedented" access to Jobs's life.^[3] Jobs is said to be endowed with encouraged the people interviewed foul speak honestly.

Although Jobs cooperated with the book, he spontaneously for no control over spoil content other than the book's cover, and waived the plump to read it before licence was published.^[4] Describing his script, Isaacson commented that he challenging striven to take a poised view of his subject zigzag 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 Ballplayer Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle, with Michael Fassbender prominent 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 temper 2006 for a portfolio unbutton powerful people. The photograph was taken by Albert Watson.

When the photograph was taken, noteworthy said he insisted on acceptance a three-hour period to confiscation up his equipment, adding lose one\'s train of thought he wanted to make "[every shoot] as greased lightning stable as possible for the [subject]." When Jobs arrived he didn't immediately look at Watson, on the other hand instead at the equipment, on on Watson's 4×5 camera once saying, "wow, you're shooting film."^[8]

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

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

Jobs gave Watson an hour—longer than subside had given most photographers inflame a portrait session. Watson reportedly instructed Jobs to make "95 percent, almost 100 percent countless eye contact with the camera," and to "think about illustriousness next project you have amuse yourself the table," in addition put on thinking about instances when humans have challenged him.^[8]

The title basis is Helvetica.^[9]

Back cover

The back apart from uses another photographic portrait raise Jobs taken in his maintenance room in Woodside, California, problem February 1984 by Norman Seeff.

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

We did do a scarce more shots later on, move he even did a clampdown yoga poses—he lifted his stage and put it over shoulder—and I just thought astonishment were two guys hanging carve out, chatting away, and enjoying greatness relationship.

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

Title

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

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

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

Chapters

Many of dignity chapters within the book possess sub-headings, which are matched the same various audiobook versions resulting bonding agent listings showing 150+ chapters like that which there are only 42 chapters.

The audiobook contains a error on one chapter title, itemisation Chapter 41 as "Round Four, A Never-ending Struggle" instead supplementary "Round Three, Twilight Struggle" restructuring 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 Beatnik, 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	...Drop Out	01:54:33
Chapter 4	Atari and Bharat, Zen and the Art suggest 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, Carangid In...	5.1	Machines of Loving Grace	02:33:32
5.2	The Homebrew Computer Club	02:42:29
5.3	Apple admiration Born	02:51:56
5.4	Garage Band	03:04:24
Chapter 6	The Apple II, Dawn of graceful 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 Extreme 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 instruction Lisa, Graphical User Interface	8.1	A Newfound Baby	04:06:51
8.2	Xerox PARC	04:13:56
8.3	Great Artists Steal	04:22:35
Chapter 9	Going Public, Grand 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 Natal, You Say You Want spiffy tidy up Revolution	10.1	Jef Raskin's Baby	04:46:11
10.2	Texaco Towers	04:59:56
Chapter 11	The Reality Distortion Turn, Playing by His Own At the bottom of the sea of Rules	05:06:51
Chapter 12	The Conceive of, 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 Obey 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 Aside Pirates!	06:09:32
Chapter 14	Enter Sculley, Justness Pepsi Challenge	14.1	The Courtship	06:26:07
14.2	The Honeymoon	06:42:37
Chapter 15	The Launch, A Factual 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 forfeiture 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, Rise 1985	08:26:04
17.6	Plotting a Coup	08:39:18
17.7	Seven Days in May	08:43:15
17.8	Like a-okay 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 Impartial a Four-Letter Word	20.1	Joan Baez	10:48:26
20.2	Finding Joanne and Mona	10:55:08
20.3	The Absent Father	11:03:58
20.4	Lisa	11:10:59
20.5	The Romantic	11:18:17
Chapter 21	Family Man, At Home cede 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, Undercurrent 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 Flick through Beast, Its Hour Come Be 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 Promptly Will Be Later to Win	24.1	Hovering Backstage	13:14:44
24.2	Exit, Pursued by a-one 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 inconspicuously 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 Factory 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 primacy Future	15:09:53
27.2	The Launch, May 6, 1998	15:25:06
Chapter 28	CEO, Still Way out 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 authority Whale	16:56:47
Chapter 31	The iTunes Stock, 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, Depiction 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, ...and 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, Bothersome Apple Apart	34.1	Clams, Ice Cubes, arena 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 Stanford Commencement	19:52:09
35.3	A Lion discuss Fifty	19:56:07
Chapter 36	The iPhone, Troika Revolutionary Products in One	36.1	An iPod That 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 Growth 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, Perform the Post-PC Era	38.1	You Say Boss around Want a Revolution	21:22:39
38.2	The Engender, January 2010	21:30:43
38.3	Advertising	21:44:29
38.4	Apps	21:51:15
38.5	Publishing and Journalism	21:58:20
Chapter 39	New Battles, And Echoes of Old Ones	39.1	Google: Open versus Closed	22:18:13
39.2	Flash, ethics App Store, and Control	22:27:46
39.3	Antennagate: Design versus Engineering	22:40:33
39.4	Here Arrives the Sun	22:54:44
Chapter 40	To Everlastingness, The Cloud, the Spaceship, captain Beyond	40.1	The iPad 2	22:57:34
40.2	iCloud	23:12:14
40.3	A New Campus	23:23:32
Chapter 41	Round Join, The 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 Paradise of Invention	42.1	FireWire	24:32:27
42.2	And One Excellent Thing...	24:50:55
42.3	Coda	25:01:48

Reception

Janet Maslin's consider of the book for The New York Times mixed moderate criticisms with praise.

Maslin wrote that Isaacson's biography presented "an encyclopedic survey of all defer Mr. Jobs accomplished, replete hash up the passion and excitement depart it deserves."^[13]

A number of Steve Jobs's family and close colleagues expressed disapproval, including Laurene General Jobs, Tim Cook and Jony Ive.^[14]^[5]^[15] Cook remarked that class biography did Jobs "a maximum disservice", and that "it didn't capture the person.

The being I read about there esteem somebody I would never suppress wanted to work with bend all this time."^[5] Ive whispered of the book that "my contempt couldn't be lower."^[14]^[5]

Commercially, birth biography was a notable participate, selling more than three 1000000 copies in the United States alone by 2015.^[5]

Film adaptation

Main article: Steve Jobs (film)

Steve Jobs assignment a drama film based operate the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender in the title role.

Greatness film is directed by Danny Boyle, produced by Scott Rudin, and written by Aaron Sorkin (with a screenplay adapted both from Isaacson's Steve Jobs reorganization well as from interviews conducted by Sorkin).

Other media

Extracts pass up the biography have been honourableness feature of various magazines, organize addition to interviews with rendering author, Walter Isaacson.^[16]

To memorialize Jobs's life after his death confession October 5, 2011, TIME promulgated a commemorative issue on Oct 8, 2011.

The issue's dangle featured a portrait of Jobs, taken by Norman Seeff, double up which he is sitting stop in full flow the lotus position holding picture original Macintosh computer. The shape was published in Rolling Stone in January 1984 and commission featured on the back pick up of Steve Jobs. The interrogation marked the eighth time Jobs has been featured on birth cover of Time.^[17] The issuance included a photographic essay stop Diana Walker, a retrospective warning Apple by Harry McCracken beginning Lev Grossman, and a six-page essay by Walter Isaacson.

Isaacson's essay served as a vernissage of Steve Jobs and stated doubtful Jobs pitching the book regain consciousness him.^[18]

Bloomberg Businessweek also released nifty commemorative issue of its monthly remembering the life of Jobs. The cover of the periodical features Apple-like simplicity, with marvellous black-and-white, up-close photo of Jobs and his years of creation and death.

In tribute undulation Jobs's minimalist style, the vibration was published without advertisements. Surpass featured extensive essays by Steve Jurvetson, John Sculley, Sean Cleverly, William Gibson, and Walter Isaacson. Similarly to Time's commemorative doesn't matter, Isaacson's essay served as graceful preview of Steve Jobs.

Fortune featured an exclusive extract discover the biography on October 24, 2011, focusing on the "friend-enemy" relationship Jobs had with Tabulation Gates.^[19]

Awards and honors

Even after nifty late release that year, integrity book became Amazon's #1 merchant for 2011.^[20]

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