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  • File Size: 23555 KB
  • Print Length: 657 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reissue edition (October 24, 2011)
  • Publication Date: October 23, 2011
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  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B004W2UBYW
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5.0 out of 5 starsGripping but amazingly incomplete
By David Dennis on October 27, 2011
Format: Hardcover
This is a gripping journey into the life of an amazing individual. Despite its girth of nearly 600 pages, the book zips along at a torrid pace.

The interviews with Jobs are fascinating and revealing. We get a real sense for what it must have been like to be Steve, or to work with him. That earns the book five stars despite its flaws, in that it's definitely a must-read if you have any interest at all in the subject.

But there are places in the book where I have to say, "Huh?"

The book is written essentially as a series of stories about Steve. The book continuously held my interest, but some of the dramas of his life seem muted. For instance, he came close to going bust when both Next and Pixar were flailing. There was only the slightest hint that anything dramatic happened in those years. In one paragraph, Pixar is shown as nearly running him out of money. A few brief paragraphs later, Toy Story gets released and Jobs' finances are saved for good.

We hear a lot about Tony Fadell's role in the development of iPhone. Tony led the iPod group and was clearly a major source for the book. You may know from a recent Businessweek article that Tony was basically driven out of the company shortly after the final introduction of iPhone, due to personality conflicts between him and Scott Forestall, the person now in charge of iOS development. But the book doesn't say a word about it. Tony simply disappears from the rest of the book with no explanation, and Forestall is barely mentioned.

Another strange incident was the Jackling house, the house he spent a large part of his life in. A case could be made that the house is historic simply because Steve spent many of his formative years living in it.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsStory of the man who put a dent in the universe. Well worth reading.
By Dr. Chuck Chakrapani on October 25, 2011
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Steve Jobs wanted to change the world, "put a dent in the universe." And he did. If you are interested in life and want to know how Jobs changed it right before our eyes, you should read this book.

No other book on Jobs has been based on first hand information from the Master himself, his colleagues and his detractors. There is no other way to know the man who changed the way we live and work. The fact that the book is engaging is a big bonus.

First Jobs' personal life, personality and beliefs. Like all fascinating people in history, Jobs was a bundle of contradictions. Born out of wedlock, he was an American icon and yet born of a Syrian Muslim whom he never knew, but had accidentally met. Adopted at birth by working class parents, he became skeptical of the Church as the all-knowing god did not help the starving children in Biafra and alternated between being a believer and a non-believer. He was, at different times, a vegan and a fruitarian (hence the name Apple). Jobs was influenced by the counter cultural ideas of the 60's and the 70's and yet become one of the most revered corporate figures of all time. He was a multi-billionaire who lived on a regular street with no high fenced compound, security or live-in servants; a Zen Buddhist who was obsessed with Zen-like simplicity but did not possess Zen-like tranquility; a son who tried to abandon his child like the way he had thought he was abandoned; a leader who was highly demanding of his colleagues and coworkers; a vastly influential figure in computing who neither built computers not wrote codes himself; a genius who was mean to many people. All these factoids had to have some influence on who he was and who he became and may keep interested psychologists busy for years.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsExtraordinary biography of a truly historical, one-of-a-kind man
By E. Kim VINE VOICE on October 26, 2011
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INTRODUCTION
Apple has always meant more to me than as a computer company, because of my early experiences in the late 1970's and early 1980's from age 8 using the Apple ][, //e, and later the Mac. They represented amazing products that I could understand even as a child, that this was the direction of the future. It was odd to me then, that the world was still embracing the MS-DOS command line interface and the IBM PC/AT machines. When in the late 1990's, Apple neared bankruptcy, with Microsoft Windows dominating the market, it taught me as a young man that companies that try to make the very best can be under appreciated by the masses, just as the adults near me in the 1980's could not see the amazing nature of my Apple //e and Mac back then. Good guys, it seemed, do finish last. It was disheartening.

Since the return of Steve Jobs to Apple, the world now knows of his genius and brilliance.

This biography is utterly amazing. I could not stop reading the entire biography and finished in less than 2 days.

WHAT I LIKED
1. Extraordinarily comprehensive - The book covers an immense number of different "phases" of his life from his famous adoption story to the start of Apple Computer, to NeXt, Pixar, love life, development of his iconic products, to the time before his death (although his death is actually never mentioned).
2. Ruthlessly objective - As a fan of Steve Jobs, I cringed at all the negative descriptions of Jobs's conduct with strangers, his management team, other CEO's, etc. I knew of his candor and lack of sensitivity towards others, but the degree to which this is depicted made me cringe and even wonder if Jobs should not be garnering so much world-wide respect.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starswow oh wow...

Such an epic story, very gripping couldn't put this book down, wow oh wow, what a life. Good bye Steve jobs so long.

Published 9 hours ago by Amazon Sammy
5.0 out of 5 starsGood read, although im a windows

Good read ,although im a windows,android user...

Published 19 hours ago by Jeff Ignat
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great insight to the man , the company, and the Silicon Valley kingpins.

Published 21 hours ago by Charles T
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great read!

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1.0 out of 5 starsWouldn't recommend.

Couldn't even finish the book... Wouldn't recommend.

Published 5 days ago by Susanna H.
5.0 out of 5 starsWell Done!

Very well written! So interesting! A great read!!

Published 6 days ago by Donovan1
5.0 out of 5 starsAmazing telling of his life and accomplishments

As someone who was unfamiliar with Steve as a CEO or a person, only his creating/leading Apple, I was amazed to discover the person he was. Read more

Published 6 days ago by roola
5.0 out of 5 starsgood and bad

Deep and without glorifying to much, showing how he was, good and bad.

Published 7 days ago by Michael
5.0 out of 5 starsBest audio CD I have ever listened to

Best audio CD I have ever listened to. This is my 11 set bought. I give it to everyone as a gift. If you have interest in Apple. It will open your eyes

Published 7 days ago by Catherine Gareri
5.0 out of 5 starsPerson receiving it was very happy with it

Was a gift. Person receiving it was very happy with it. The device was great as always.

Published 10 days ago by Julie C.

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