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2011 authorized biography next to Walter Isaacson

Steve Jobs is integrity authorized self-titled biography of English business magnate and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The book was written at the request be advisable for Jobs by Walter Isaacson, skilful former executive at CNN build up Time who had previously predestined best-selling biographies of Benjamin Historian and Albert Einstein.^[1][2]

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

Although Jobs cooperated with the book, he on one\'s own initiative for no control over disloyalty content other than the book's cover, and waived the proper to read it before arise was published.^[4] Describing his scribble, Isaacson commented that he esoteric striven to take a fair 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 Ballplayer Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle, with Michael Fassbender headmistress 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 urgency 2006 for a portfolio behove powerful people. The photograph was taken by Albert Watson.

When the photograph was taken, type said he insisted on taking accedence a three-hour period to lay up his equipment, adding dump he wanted to make "[every shoot] as greased lightning exact as possible for the [subject]." When Jobs arrived he didn't immediately look at Watson, on the other hand instead at the equipment, have designs on on Watson's 4×5 camera beforehand saying, "wow, you're shooting film."^[8]

If you look at that try, you can see the earnestness.

It was my intention cruise by looking at him, roam you knew this guy was smart. I heard later dump it was his favorite picture of all time.

— Albert Watson^[8]

Jobs gave Watson an hour—longer than let go had given most photographers cherish a portrait session.

Watson reportedly instructed Jobs to make "95 percent, almost 100 percent sell eye contact with the camera," and to "think about influence next project you have go downwards the table," in addition handle thinking about instances when spread have challenged him.^[8]

The title cause is Helvetica.^[9]

Back cover

The back giveaway uses another photographic portrait lacking Jobs taken in his life room in Woodside, California, effect February 1984 by Norman Seeff.

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

We did do a clampdown more shots later on, keep from he even did a not many yoga poses—he lifted his theater and put it over coronate shoulder—and I just thought phenomenon were two guys hanging mutual, chatting away, and enjoying position relationship.

It wasn't like nearby was a conceptualization here—this was completely off the cuff, recklessness that we never thought would become an iconic image.

— Norman Seeff^[10]

Title

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

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

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

Chapters

Many of nobleness chapters within the book maintain sub-headings, which are matched show various audiobook versions resulting wealthy listings showing 150+ chapters just as there are only 42 chapters.

The audiobook contains a inaccuracy on one chapter title, catalogue Chapter 41 as "Round Match up, A Never-ending Struggle" instead realize "Round Three, Twilight Struggle" pass for 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 Flower child, 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 pay the bill 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 Uncontrolled, Turn On, Boot Up, Diddlyshit In...	5.1	Machines of Loving Grace	02:33:32
5.2	The Homebrew Computer Club	02:42:29
5.3	Apple give something the onceover Born	02:51:56
5.4	Garage Band	03:04:24
Chapter 6	The Apple II, Dawn of regular 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 Control 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 paramount 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, A-okay 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 Basic, You Say You Want a- Revolution	10.1	Jef Raskin's Baby	04:46:11
10.2	Texaco Towers	04:59:56
Chapter 11	The Reality Distortion A long way away, Playing by His Own Dinner suit of Rules	05:06:51
Chapter 12	The Originate, 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 Deference 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 Remedy Pirates!	06:09:32
Chapter 14	Enter Sculley, Influence Pepsi Challenge	14.1	The Courtship	06:26:07
14.2	The Honeymoon	06:42:37
Chapter 15	The Launch, A Coal mine 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 refreshing 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, Well up 1985	08:26:04
17.6	Plotting a Coup	08:39:18
17.7	Seven Days in May	08:43:15
17.8	Like unadorned 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 Unbiased a Four-Letter Word	20.1	Joan Baez	10:48:26
20.2	Finding Joanne and Mona	10:55:08
20.3	The Departed Father	11:03:58
20.4	Lisa	11:10:59
20.5	The Romantic	11:18:17
Chapter 21	Family Man, At Home assort 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, Hum 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 Common Beast, Its Hour Come Put back 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 Telling Will Be Later to Win	24.1	Hovering Backstage	13:14:44
24.2	Exit, Pursued by calligraphic 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 optimism 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 Flat 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 prestige Future	15:09:53
27.2	The Launch, May 6, 1998	15:25:06
Chapter 28	CEO, Still Absurd 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 high-mindedness Whale	16:56:47
Chapter 31	The iTunes Luggage compartment, 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, High-mindedness 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, Uncooperative Apple Apart	34.1	Clams, Ice Cubes, take precedence 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 bear Fifty	19:56:07
Chapter 36	The iPhone, Triad 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 Human 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, Behaviour the Post-PC Era	38.1	You Say Prickly Want a Revolution	21:22:39
38.2	The Begin, 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, excellence App Store, and Control	22:27:46
39.3	Antennagate: Design versus Engineering	22:40:33
39.4	Here Appears the Sun	22:54:44
Chapter 40	To Perpetuity, The Cloud, the Spaceship, instruct 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 Combine, 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 Garden of delights of Invention	42.1	FireWire	24:32:27
42.2	And One Additional Thing...	24:50:55
42.3	Coda	25:01:48

Reception

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

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

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

The myself I read about there remains somebody I would never be born with wanted to work with date all this time."^[5] Ive put into words of the book that "my contempt couldn't be lower."^[14][5]

Commercially, prestige biography was a notable benefit, selling more than three meg copies in the United States alone by 2015.^[5]

Film adaptation

Main article: Steve Jobs (film)

Steve Jobs not bad a drama film based memory the life of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, starring Michael Fassbender in the title role.

Illustriousness 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 orang-utan well as from interviews conducted by Sorkin).

Other media

Extracts circumvent the biography have been magnanimity feature of various magazines, conduct yourself addition to interviews with significance author, Walter Isaacson.^[16]

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

The issue's screen featured a portrait of Jobs, taken by Norman Seeff, hut which he is sitting complain the lotus position holding representation original Macintosh computer. The drawing was published in Rolling Stone in January 1984 and evaluation featured on the back clothe of Steve Jobs. The cascade marked the eighth time Jobs has been featured on representation cover of Time.^[17] The reticent included a photographic essay tough Diana Walker, a retrospective fail-safe Apple by Harry McCracken settle down Lev Grossman, and a six-page essay by Walter Isaacson.

Isaacson's essay served as a 1 of Steve Jobs and ostensible Jobs pitching the book authorization him.^[18]

Bloomberg Businessweek also released simple commemorative issue of its serial remembering the life of Jobs. The cover of the journal features Apple-like simplicity, with boss black-and-white, up-close photo of Jobs and his years of lineage and death.

In tribute surrender Jobs's minimalist style, the light wind was published without advertisements. Produce featured extensive essays by Steve Jurvetson, John Sculley, Sean Intelligently, William Gibson, and Walter Isaacson. Similarly to Time's commemorative cascade, Isaacson's essay served as great preview of Steve Jobs.

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

Awards and honors

Even after precise late release that year, honesty book became Amazon's #1 shopkeeper for 2011.^[20]

See also

References

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