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[0] checkbox [#] position [cover] cover [title] title Steve Jobs [author] author Isaacson, Walter * [isbn] isbn 1451648537 [isbn13] isbn13 9781451648539 [asin] asin [num pages] num pages 656 pp [avg rating] avg rating 4.09 [num ratings] num ratings 301,083 [date pub] date pub 2011 [date pub (ed.)] date pub edition Oct 24, 2011 [rating] Lucas's rating 3 of 5 stars [my rating] my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves [notes] notes Notes are private! [recommender] recommender none [comments] comments 0 [votes] votes 0 [read count] # times read 1 [date started] date started Jan 20, 2014 [date read] date read Feb 20, 2014 [date added] date added Jan 20, 2014 [date purchased] date purchased [owned] owned [purchase location] purchase location [condition] condition [format] format Hardcover [29] actions view [review] 
review Steve Jobs seems like a complete jerk in his professional and private life, though maybe slightly mellows with age. The view into the history of the ea Steve Jobs seems like a complete jerk in his professional and private life, though maybe slightly mellows with age. The view into the history of the early days of personal computing was nice, the narrative is segmented nicely so the chapters on the musical preferences of the subject of the book or parts about his kids and girlfriends can be safely skipped if you are reading it to learn about Apple. I feel like the author made no attempt to see if some aspects of Apple products that are claimed to be innovations were actually novel, or were inspired by competing products (or had a parallel existence prior to and outside of Apple, even if they didn't directly inspire imitation)- the competition is mentioned only when it is strongly interacting/competing with Apple. There is the great early quote from Jobs about good artists copying, great artists stealing, which of course came from Jobs when Apple was the up-start rather than an enormous company. The other day I found a remastered version of the great 1984 Superbowl Macintosh ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JreO.... The remastering process altered the video to include a much later Apple product onto the athlete running with the hammer- I suppose someone forgot that whole part of 1984 where the protagonist works at revising old images to remove or add things for Big Brother? Or it is intentionally ironic? ...more
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