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'Official' Steve Job biography coming in 2012

By | April 11, 2011, 4:20am PDT

Summary: Publisher Simon & Schuster have announced that an official biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be published in early 2012.

Publisher Simon & Schuster have announced that an official biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs will be published in early 2012.

The biography will be called ‘iSteve: The Book of Jobs’ is being penned by Walter Isaacson, who’s previous titles include ‘Einstein: His Life and Universe’, ‘Benjamin Franklin: An American Life’ and ‘Kissinger: A Biography.’

“This is the perfect match of subject and author, and it is certain to be a landmark book about one of the world’s greatest innovators,” Jonathan Karp, publisher of Simon & Schuster, said in a statement. “Just as he did with Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson is telling a unique story of revolutionary genius.”

I’m sure it will be a fascinating read, although given that it is an official biography, and that Jobs is well known for his ‘reality distortion field,’ I wonder how accurate a picture we’ll get of Jobs.

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RIM who?
RationalGuy 11th Apr 2011
@SonofaSailor

RIM's innovation was "what if you took a cell phone and added some computer-like functions to it". RIM built a rock-solid barebones mobile e-mail platform that IT people liked because it was reliable and it added one more piece of arcane magic (the BES server) in the server room adding to their job security.

Apple's innovation was "what if you took a touch-screen computer and shrunk it into the size of a cell phone." Apple realized that you could people a great mobile computing experience, not just the bare minimum. Apple built a great user-centric ecosystem that IT people hate and resent having to support, because it largely makes IT irrelevant and redundant.

Apple were right. RIM were wrong. Now RIM are trying to play catch-up with Apple before they fade away into obscurity.
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RE: 'Official' Steve Job biography coming in 2012
Rick_K 11th Apr 2011
There will only be a handful of people that can attest to the validity of the book. I will be interested in how the book paints the man; either good, or bad. If it contains more conjecture than fact, it will not be worth reading.
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There are alot of facts known about Jobs
Will Farrell 11th Apr 2011
@Rick_K
many of them not all to flattering, so I wonder how much of that side of Jobs will be in the book, as Jobs has to sign off in the end, and lawsuits have been known to flow from Apple at the first sign of "information they do not what people to know" hits the stands.
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Revolutionary...
VoicesInTheHead 11th Apr 2011
It will be the one that the world has never seen or read before (with due respects for Jobs)
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RE: 'Official' Steve Job biography coming in 2012
SonofaSailor 11th Apr 2011
I'm sure this will be a puff piece; painting the man as having no flaws. As if SJ didn't have enough idiots kissing his arse.

psssh, it already is a puff piece, and it's not even written! "...it is certain to be a landmark book about one of the world?s greatest innovators."

Oh, ok. Yeah, Jonathon Ive (you know, the real designer/innovator) was just sitting around smoking dope while Jobs creating all these magical products, huh? Not to mention, the phone, cell phone, computer (o/s and tablet), walkman, mp3 player, and app stores ALL existed before Apple made products that became popular fads.

Any mention of his 1st kid who he left for a single mother on welfare to raise? I doubt it. Probably some BS about "that's how long it took for the paternity test to come back".

Well, it seems like the idiot fanbois will finally be getting their 'Bible', this being an 'official' bio and all. I've been wondering for a while now when this cult would have a written scripture
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Yeah! They all did exist in one form or another
James Quinn 11th Apr 2011
@SonofaSailor
BEFORE Apple made them useful and or interesting to the general public! Still their is no denying they did exist before Apple but no one noticed them:P

Oh yeah and Steve Jobs has made mistakes both personal and professional. OMG!! The horror you mean despite his amazing success he's actually human!?! Next thing you'll be telling me is that whole George Washington and the Cherry Tree story is a fable and not real at all!!! Is nothing sacred anymore???

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RE: 'Official' Steve Job biography coming in 2012
SonofaSailor 11th Apr 2011
@James Quinn

"BEFORE Apple made them useful"... yeah, Facebook and fart apps has really brought this country along way. I'll grant you that. And RIM who? yeah, they didn't offer anything to the table the last 12 years, and their phones certainly weren't useful. Enterprise just bought them to avoid slashed budgets for their next year because they didn't spend their cap, right?

Sheesh, if Apple started selling sliced bread, you'd attribute them with inventing the sandwich.
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RIM who?
RationalGuy 11th Apr 2011
@SonofaSailor

RIM's innovation was "what if you took a cell phone and added some computer-like functions to it". RIM built a rock-solid barebones mobile e-mail platform that IT people liked because it was reliable and it added one more piece of arcane magic (the BES server) in the server room adding to their job security.

Apple's innovation was "what if you took a touch-screen computer and shrunk it into the size of a cell phone." Apple realized that you could people a great mobile computing experience, not just the bare minimum. Apple built a great user-centric ecosystem that IT people hate and resent having to support, because it largely makes IT irrelevant and redundant.

Apple were right. RIM were wrong. Now RIM are trying to play catch-up with Apple before they fade away into obscurity.

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