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Steve Jobs biography will be released in 2012
THE BIOGRAPHY of Apple CEO Steve Jobs is set for release in early 2012.
The book, iSteve: The Book of Jobs, has been given the nod of approval by publisher Simon & Schuster after Jobs agreed to participate, according to ABC News.
Biographer Walter Isaacson has been working on the biography since 2009. He interviewed Apple employees, members of Jobs' family, the company's competitors and Jobs himself.
A number of unauthorised biographies have been written, but iSteve will be the first authorised account of the life of the successful businessman. An unauthorised biography in 2005 entitled iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business met with disapproval by Apple and might have been the reason Jobs agreed to cooperate with this project.
Isaacson has previously written biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein and held executive posts at CNN and Time magazine, as well as serving as the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, which focuses on education and policy studies.
The publisher compared Jobs with Franklin and Einstein, calling him a "revolutionary genius". Jobs has certainly contributed a lot to the field of technology, but we would suggest that such a comparison is far fetched and more in the interests of increased sales than accuracy. µ
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It may be taking things too far, but I cant help thinking that Steve is already planning for what happens after him.
His illness is well known. He was there for the iPad2 launch. And now, he has agreed to participate with this biography.
Sad...we will miss you... for giving us so many classy products...
The Enquirer has long hated on Apple and tried to diminish our accomplishments. Now every 3rd article here is just another opportunity to swing from Steve jobs nuts, and your "most read" articles are usually Apple related. Apple owns the Inq now.
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Plenty has been written about Steve Jobs and I can guarantee you that most of it is unflattering. His hippie days, his days of dropping acid, his dropping out of college to join a commune, his rush to India to obtain self enlightenment and subsequent rush back to CA crying. Much of that early history is intertwined with Steve Wosniak who was a practical joker and whom he sold illegal blue boxes with to Stanford dorm room occupants. To his unwashed days and incessant screaming at employees and his unrivaled tantrums fit to force negotiations to his favor with potential business partners.
I doubt his book will speak of these things and if they do he'll be softening things up and making himself look the angel and prophet.
Let us not forget that Jobs will try to revise history and claim the other accounts were exaggerations or never occurred. That's the difference between an authorized biography and an unauthorized one. The prior one always revises history while the latter always tells it as it is.
Suppose it could come in handy for propping doors open and fixing wobbly chair legs.
I couldn't imagine anything more boring to read about than the boring life of a boring, uncharismatic douche who made lots and lots of money from one lucky idea, the end.
Refreshing honest on the biographers part on the non official book. iCon.