Steve Jobs Has a New 'Memoir', to Be Published More than 11 Years After His Death (msn.com) 48
An anonymous reader shares this report from the Washington Post:
Steve Jobs never lived to be an old wise man.
But running Apple and Pixar, tumbling and thriving, earned him a lot of wisdom in his 56 years. Now, a small group of his family, friends and former colleagues have collected it into "Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words," available free to the public online starting on April 11. Somewhere between a posthumous memoir and a scrapbook album, it is told through notes and drafts Jobs emailed to himself, excerpts of letters and speeches, oral histories and interviews, photos and mementos. (Some physical copies are being produced for Apple and Disney employees, but that format won't be for sale to the general public.)
"Imagine yourself as an old person looking back on your life," Jobs wrote in a June 2005 email to himself as he was preparing to give the Stanford commencement speech. "Your life will be a story. It will be your story, with its highs and lows, its heros and villains, its forks in the road that mean everything." The book, published by the Steve Jobs Archive, will be released on Apple Books and the Steve Jobs Archive website. The fact that it aesthetically resembles an Apple product — mostly gray and white, minimalist — is no coincidence: It was designed by LoveFrom, the firm founded by Jony Ive, Apple's former chief design officer.
But running Apple and Pixar, tumbling and thriving, earned him a lot of wisdom in his 56 years. Now, a small group of his family, friends and former colleagues have collected it into "Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words," available free to the public online starting on April 11. Somewhere between a posthumous memoir and a scrapbook album, it is told through notes and drafts Jobs emailed to himself, excerpts of letters and speeches, oral histories and interviews, photos and mementos. (Some physical copies are being produced for Apple and Disney employees, but that format won't be for sale to the general public.)
"Imagine yourself as an old person looking back on your life," Jobs wrote in a June 2005 email to himself as he was preparing to give the Stanford commencement speech. "Your life will be a story. It will be your story, with its highs and lows, its heros and villains, its forks in the road that mean everything." The book, published by the Steve Jobs Archive, will be released on Apple Books and the Steve Jobs Archive website. The fact that it aesthetically resembles an Apple product — mostly gray and white, minimalist — is no coincidence: It was designed by LoveFrom, the firm founded by Jony Ive, Apple's former chief design officer.
What a loser (Score:1)
They could publish this through Apple Books and charge $399 for a signed edition.
Art work goes up after the artists is dead, you know.
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Re: What a loser (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't really see how. The original Apple computer was created by Woz, the original Macintosh was Jef Raskin. The mind behind the iMac, ipod, iphone and ipad was Jony Ive. Steve Jobs was basically the pitch man. And a really douchy one at that. The stuff Jobs was really behind mostly didn't do well, like the Lisa and all of the Next computers.
Re: What a loser (Score:5, Interesting)
Because you do not understand that without Steve Jobs there would be no Apple, no Lisa, no Mac, no NextStep, no Pixar. They threw him out the door and Apple went down the tubes. Steve Jobs came back and had the vision to get the company back on track and now it's the most valuable company on the planet. Woz and Jeff Raskin were not leaders. Steve Jobs was and if you deny that you are out of touch with reality. Apple, NextStep (the future of Apple's macOS), Pixar. Be a leader behind those businesses and then criticize and the only one I can think of his equal is Elon Musk.
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Sorry...
Jobs does nothing without Wozniak. That was the alchemy. That's a fact not an opinion.
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Wozniak does nothing without Jobs. Jobs built a team twice at Apple. You try that...
Re: What a loser (Score:2)
They threw him out the door and Apple went down the tubes.
That was already happening when he left. Without Jony Ive, I think Jobs returning would have basically done nothing.
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Jobs put together a great team. That is what a great CEO does.
Re: What a loser (Score:2)
Jony Ive joined Apple while Steve Jobs was gone.
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Yes, his genius was unleashed when Steve Jobs came back.
"Jobs died at the age of 56 on Oct. 5, 2011. Shortly after, Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive delivered a eulogy for Jobs describing him as "my closest and my most loyal friend." In a piece in The Wall Street Journal Magazine on Monday, Ive noted that he hasn't spoken much publicly about his relationship with Jobs since then.
"My memories of that brutal, heartbreaking day 10 years ago are scattered and random. I cannot remember driving down to his hou
Re: What a loser (Score:2)
None of that is at odds with my commentary. What's your point?
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Steve Jobs was a great innovator that gave the space to people like Jony Ives and Tim Cook to make Apple the most innovative and successful company in the world. You think he is/was a loser. No more really needs to be said about your opinion that you have every right to except that it is hateful.
Re: What a loser (Score:2)
Says the iFan
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Well, I am an iOS developer, started developing on the Mac in 1986, former Apple employee, and my tech I own is all Apple made. So, it would be hard to dissuade me from thinking Steve Jobs was one of the most influential persons that brought technologies to the masses. Have a good day.
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The original Apple computer, the one we called the Apple I, almost didn't exist. Woz created it, and he was giving away the plans to anyone he met at the Hobbyist Com
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Memoir summary/Secret to wealth (Score:1)
1. Get mentored by the billionaire CEO of HP
2. Go on a mad hippie trip to India.
3. Using lessons gleaned from #1, identify an emerging technology/market.
4. Find nerd(s) you can convince to figure out minimal feature set for you and build you a product.
5. Find investors based on connections provided by #1.
6. Profit.
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Maybe, but we don't know. Even a pebble in the wrong place could change historical events and necessary coincidences.
Re: Memoir summary/Secret to wealth (Score:2)
There you go, now repeat the process so you can prove you're right.
something wonderful? (Score:5, Informative)
When Jobs said "Make something wonderful" he meant steal something from your co-founder" and "deny paternity for profit" and "take a pancreas from a sucker".
Re:something wonderful? (Score:5, Funny)
Don't forget the classic Steve Jobs life lesson of "Lease a new car every 60 days, so you always have a temporary license. That way, you can park in a handicapped parking spaces all the time and get away with it."
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Personally, I don't think Jobs deserves the hits he takes...
However...
I personally witnessed the no tags, park in handicapped, new car every 60 days behavior.
The parking lot of the Pepper Mill was the defacto Apple Computer smoking area. I used to have to walk past his car to get there.
Re:something wonderful? (Score:5, Interesting)
"steal something from your co-founder"
I think that's a bit unfair. Woz had the same share of the business at the start as Jobs, and Woz was probably not going to do much more with his computer design than tinker around with it at the local hobby club. That Steve saw the commercial potential, and managed to achieve it, is fundamental to Apple being around today - as fundamental as Woz having a genius design for a home computer. I haven't ever heard Woz claim he was screwed out of his share of anything, but I guess even if he was, he doesn't seem like the type to get too concerned about it.
But yeah, the paternity thing was weird. And the not getting treated for his cancer (he was incredibly lucky to have the highly treatable form of pancreatic cancer, so would easily be alive today if he'd had surgery) was delusional.
ChatGPT could do a bettter job (Score:2)
Good Artists copy, Great Artists Steal.. (Score:2)
Says its all..
https://youtu.be/OSTDhhmUXGM?t... [youtu.be]
Modern medicine (Score:3)
Steve who? Oh yeah, that fool who switched to a fruitarian diet over consulting an actual medical professional.
It's called... (Score:2)
A flawed human with light and shadow (Score:2)
These posts always bring the worst polarizations out in people, somehow.
Even Woz himself said without Steve they would not have made it all that far.
Hate Steve all you want, the companies he ran made an impact, all of them. He was the guy with just the right amount of insane reality distortion combined with the drive to see it through.
Some people just hate him because of how he shed dead weight when he came back to Apple. Some cite his private life.
He was a flawed human with light and with shadow. We all ar
Re:A flawed human with light and shadow (Score:5, Informative)
So I can only laugh these days, as anyone who didn't actually know him, ends up worshipping him.
Also, news flash yall, but Steve Jobs did not invent the iPhone. He only signed off on it when Jony Ive presented the idea.
11 years (Score:1)
Hard to believe it already has been 11 years.
i'm sure he does (Score:1)
Read about half of it... (Score:1)