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Steve Jobs biographer interviewed on 60 Minutes (and why Steve didn’t like on/off switches)

By | October 23, 2011, 8:54pm PDT

Summary: Walter Isaacson was interviewed on 60 Minutes about his biography on Steve Jobs which was released globally today. Full video (and extras) below.

MacRumors notes that the highly-anticipated Walter Isaacson biography Steve Jobs began shipping at around 7:00pm ET to customers that pre-ordered it on Kindle, and at around 11:00pm ET to customers that pre-ordered it on iBooks. The electronic releases occurred just ahead of the 12:01am ET embargo date requested by the publisher.

Many of the details in the book were made public on Thursday when the Associated PressThe New York Times and Huffington post obtained advanced copies ahead of its scheduled October 24, 2011 release.

My favorite anecdote from the 60 Minutes interview with Isaacson is when he discusses Steve’s mortality with him. Steve first talks about the afterlife and how the wisdom that you’ve accumulated lives on, but then Steve pauses and goes on to say “but sometimes I feel that it’s like an on/off switch. Click. And you’re gone. And that’s why I don’t like putting on/off switches on Apple devices.”

Here’s part 1:

Here’s part 2:

Bonus footage (that didn’t air during the 60 Minutes broadcast) can be found at 60 Minutes Overtime. In the clips from Isaacson’s interviews Jobs talks about the dominance of Facebook and how he admires Mark Zuckerberg.

Steve Jobs’ family album:

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Jason O'Grady is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been publishing for over 15 years.

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady is the creator and editor of O'Grady's PowerPage, which has been publishing mobile technology news since 1995. He maintains an advertising relationship with the following legacy advertisers on the PowerPage:

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Biography

Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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RE: Steve Jobs biographer interviewed on 60 Minutes (and why Steve didn't like on/off switches)
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Dos cosas que me llaman la atenci??n es por un lado, la cuesti??n de su salud. Mucha gente considera una estupidez, que no se haya sometido a una operaci??n de p??ncreas y que se decidiera nueve meses despu??s de que lo detectar??n accidentalmente. Y pero a??n dicen que como alguien tan listo decide hacer algo as??. Creo que el mismo da la respuesta cuando dice que no desea que el dinero lo convierta en un ser extra??o y ajeno a lo que uno es ante y despu??s de triunfar con una empresa como la suya.
Eso lo respeto por que le permiti?? a su familia vivir una vida normal y ajena a las excentricidades que le gente con dinero considera son la norma.
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ultimately add, please don?t hesitate to haber contact me via e-mail. All e-mails I receive are haberler as confidential ? unless you want a mention/credit line, of course.) bebek check out and ultimately add, please hesitate to contact me via e-mail. All e-mails I receive are gebelik as confidential ? unless you want a mention/credit line, of course.)
Ultimately add, please don?t hesitate to haber contact me via e-mail. All e-mails I receive are haberler as confidential ? unless you want a mention/credit line, spor of course.) bebek check out and ultimately add, dunya please hesitate to turkey contact me via e-mail. turkiye All e-mails I receive are gebelik as confidential ? unless you want a mention/credit line, of course.) dogum My favorite anecdote from the 60 Minutes gebelik planlama interview with Isaacson is when baba he discusses Steves cocuk mortality with
him. saglik Steve first talks egitim about the afterlife and how hamilelik the wisdom that youve accumulated lives on, son haberler but then Steve guncel haberler pauses and goes on to en son haberler say but sometimes I feel that its like an on/off switch. finans Click. And youre gone. And thats why I dont like putting on/off switches on son dakika Apple devices.

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