Biography Reveals Steve Jobs Declare Thermonuclear War Against Android

Release Date ‎Oct 20, 2011‎ in Gotta Be Mobile

 
   

Steve Jobs: Revelations from a tech giant

CBS News - ‎Oct 27, 2011‎
Steve Jobs was already gravely ill with cancer when he asked author Walter Isaacson to write his biography. Jobs told Isaacson to write a honest book - about his failings and his strengths. Steve Kroft reports. His products - the Mac, iPhone, ...

Steve Jobs Bio to Become Year's Top Seller

Forbes - ‎Oct 26, 2011‎
The biography of Steve Jobs is poised to become Amazon's top-selling book of the year, a final testament to the man who transformed the way people interact with media. “Steve Jobs,” written by Walter Isaacson hit book stores yesterday. ...

Steve Jobs Originally Planned iPad With Intel Inside, Biography Says

PC Magazine - ‎Oct 26, 2011‎
Although Apple gets chips for its entire Mac lineup from Intel, Steve Jobs had issues with the company, Walter Isaacson reveals in his biography of the former Apple CEO. Jobs thought Intel was a company that was slow to adapt, ...

Biography of Jobs prompts talk of iTV

MarketWatch - ‎Oct 26, 2011‎
Did Apple visionary Steve Jobs have a plan to launch an integrated, simple-to-use television? Biographer Walter Isaacson says Jobs told him he 'cracked the code.' Joan Doniger has Take on Tech.

Is Apple TV in development for 2012 release? Biographer hints at Jobs' plans ...

Daily Mail - ‎Oct 26, 2011‎
By Daily Mail Reporter He revolutionised the way we consume media, but for Steve Jobs, a leap into consumer television was little more than a 'hobby' for the technology giant. At least, so he claimed at digital conference D5. ...

An Apple TV: Steve Jobs Confided Plans to Walter Isaacson

ABC News - ‎Oct 26, 2011‎
This illustration made by Johnathan Mak shows Steve Jobs in front of the Apple logo. (Johnathan Mak) Steve Jobs, in his final days, told his authorized biographer, Walter Isaacson, that he was far from finished. ...

“Steve Jobs” touted as a bestseller for Amazon

eTaiwan News - ‎Oct 26, 2011‎
With readers around the world waiting expectantly, the biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is finally available in 35 countries. Amazon, the leading Internet book retailer, predicts that “Steve Jobs” will be the bestselling title of ...

Walter Isaacson's Media Blitz Has Me Hooked on Jobs

Reuters - ‎Oct 26, 2011‎
I already wanted to read his book on Steve Jobs (called 'Steve Jobs,' it's out tomorrow) before I read the story in The New York Times last week and learned how Jobs chose not to be “invaded” by surgery when he was first ...

Isaacson's Steve Jobs Rages, Weeps, Adds Sex to Tech: Interview

BusinessWeek - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
By Bloomberg Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- A finicky Steve Jobs picked Walter Isaacson to write the authorized biography, setting him loose among his friends, lovers, rivals and enemies in Silicon Valley. “Steve Jobs” is based on 40 interviews over two years ...

The biographer's dilemma

eTaiwan News - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
I was halfway through Walter Isaacson's new biography of Steve Jobs when I suddenly went searching through my bookshelf for the book he wrote about Benjamin Franklin. I had read the latter biography when it came out in 2003, ...

Apple's Jobs Told Cook Not to Ask 'What Would Steve Do?'

eTaiwan News - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
When Apple Inc. (AAPL) Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook took the microphone at a memorial tribute to Steve Jobs at the company's campus last week, he shared a piece of advice Jobs gave him before his death on Oct. 5. “Among his last advice he had for ...

I called the Apple Television five years ago, but is it a good idea?

ZDNet (blog) - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
By Jason D. O'Grady | October 25, 2011, 7:18pm PDT Summary: The mythical Apple Television has surfaced! A passage in Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography has resurrected an old dinosaur of a rumors that I first broke in 2006. ...

Steve Jobs biography tops every E-book chart

Reuters - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
Eric Calderon, an Apple fan who said he owns most of the company's products, browses through the biography of Steve Jobs, sold at a bookstore in Quezon City, Metro Manila October 24, 2011. By Lucas Shaw LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The Steve Jobs ...

Steve Jobs biography: 7 revelations

The Nation, Pakistan - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's hotly anticipated bio of the Apple guru came out on Monday, but the media has already got its hands on the book. The notoriously private Jobs gave Isaacson unprecedented access, granting him over 40 interviews. ...

Apple may be getting ready to reinvent TV

Los Angeles Times - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
Remarks by late co-founder Steve Jobs in a new biography have set off a flurry of speculation that Apple will roll out a TV set that could remake the industry. The late Steve Jobs speaks to members of the media during an Apple product unveiling event ...

Steve Jobs told Tim Cook 'just do what's right'

Economic Times - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
SAN FRANCISCO: When Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook took the microphone at a memorial tribute to Steve Jobs at the company's campus last week, he shared a piece of advice Jobs gave him before his death on October 5. "Among his last advice he had ...

Steve Jobs' Cancer Treatment Regrets

Forbes - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
Jobs' “magical thinking” may have defined his business brilliance, but it could have been his downfall in his fight against cancer. According to Steve Jobs' biographer, Walter Isaacson, the Apple mastermind eventually came to regret the decision he had ...

<p>Manjoo: The New Steve Jobs Biography Offers Gossip, but Not Insight</p>

Slate Magazine - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
Walter Isaacson's new biography of the Apple CEO is full of juicy tales about Jobs' ego, but it doesn't explain what made him tick. By Farhad Manjoo|Posted Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, at 6:45 PM ET In the aftermath of his resignation and then his death, ...

The Steve Jobs brand

Manila Bulletin - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
MANILA, Philippines " When Steve Jobs passed away some three weeks ago, the outpouring of grief on his behalf was worthy of a hero. All over the world, there were people giving tribute to the man who, according to popular belief, ...

Apple TV in development for possible 2012 release, according to report

Washington Post - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
The release of Steve Jobs's biography has brought to light a torrent of new information about the notoriously private former Apple executive: We've learned he pledged 'thermonuclear war' on Google and opted for some non-traditional treatments for his ...

What Was on Steve Jobs's iPod and How It Drove Him

Wall Street Journal (blog) - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
AP When you ponder Steve Jobs' influences, Bob Dylan and the Beatles should be at or near the top of the list. Jobs, who was born in 1955, was very much a child of the Sixties, the period when Dylan and the Beatles were the kings of ...

CNN: Steve Jobs Was a Difficult Patient

TIME - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
Former Apple chief Steve Jobs was notoriously difficult, not least as a cancer patient, it turns out. After discovering in October 2003 that he had a pancreatic tumor, he put off the surgery that ...

Who was Steve Jobs? Biography reveals good, bad and ugly

New Zealand Herald - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
Steve Jobs. File photo / AP He changed the world but he also had extremely smelly feet. His temper was legendary but his foresight could be exceptional. And if he could have changed one thing, it would have been to be as successful at ...

Steve Jobs' final testament: An Apple TV?

CBS News - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
Not the last word? The second-gen Apple TV Apple introduced in September 2010 (Sarah Tew/CNET) Just last week, we speculated about the likelihood of an Apple television, given Steve Jobs' recent ruminations to Walter Isaacson about how he was keen "to ...

Steve Jobs Bio: Apple Has 3 Years Of New Products In Jonathan Ive's Studio

Forbes - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
Apple industrial design chief Jonathan Ive's studio is Apple's holy of holies. Shielded by tinted windows and a heavy-duty door, guarded by a pair of Apple employees, it's a place where few Apple employees " and virtually no one from the media " is ...

Jobs' Apple TV Already in the Works

Slate Magazine - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
The biography of Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs hit stores on Monday. Before his death, Steve Jobs said that he had "finally cracked" how to build a Web-integrated TV. ...

Steve Jobs: HP Implosion was an iTragedy

Wired News - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
Hewlett Packard always held a special place in Steve Jobs' heart. And while the two companies were sometimes competitors, Jobs took no comfort in HP's corporate meltdown this summer. In fact, he thought it was a tragedy. ...

Apple's Jobs Told Cook Not to Ask 'What Would Steve Do?': Tech

BusinessWeek - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) -- When Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook took the microphone at a memorial tribute to Steve Jobs at the company's campus last week, he shared a piece of advice Jobs gave him before his death on Oct. 5. ...

Taiwanese Animators Distill Steve Jobs' Bio Into 93 Seconds of Funny

Wired News - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
Steve Jobs' ghost punches his younger self in NMA's most recent video. Image: Next Media Animation Those kooky Taiwanese animators from NMA.TV have reached a new high in campy 3D synthesis of real-world events: They've boiled ...

Jobs: bruising, brilliant, betrayed?

Hindustan Times - ‎Oct 25, 2011‎
The biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs hit bookstores on Monday, painting a candid portrait of a technology visionary who could be as bruising as he was brilliant. The 630-page book, titled simply Steve Jobs, is already number one on the list of ...

 

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