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Author Walter Isaacson conducted more than 40 interviews with Jobs over the course of two years. The authorized biography also includes interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, competitors and colelagues.
The Simon and Schuster synopsis says "Although Jobs co-operated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against."
The title is now, simply, Steve Jobs, and excerpts are starting to float into the web now that review copies have been released.
AP writer, Michael Liedtke, published a series of tweets on Thursday with some remarkable quotes and information from the book.
The AP obtained a copy of the new Steve Jobs bio and it leaves little doubt about the sense of betrayal Jobs felt with Google's Android
The Jobs bio quotes Jobs calling Android "grand theft" of the iPhone & vowing to "right this wrong" until his dying breath
Jobs also likens Google products outside of search to defecation, to put it diplomatically
So it doesn't sound like Steve Jobs didn't like Eric Schmidt at all when the end came but he had mended the fences with Larry Page
The bio says Page came to Jobs for advice on how to be a good CEO and Jobs evidently gave Page advice that he has taken to heart
The bio quotes Jobs telling Page: "Figure out what Google wants to be when it grows up. It's now all over the map."
Jobs told Page Google had been putting out too many products "that are adequate but not great. They're turning you into Microsoft." Ouch
Jobs says he initially wanted to say "f-you" to Page, but remembered how Bill Hewlett advised him when he was young
Jobs on Bill Gates: "Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything...He just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas."
Jobs told Gates of his Macintosh vision early on. According to bio, MSFT code named it "Sand". It stood for "Steve's amazing new device."
Funn (sic) bio anecdote:. Andy Warhol convinced Jobs to take one of the first Macintoshes to Mick Jagger. Jobs did and Mick didn't know who he was
Bio says Jobs had this to say about Jagger encounter:"I think he was on drugs. Either that or he's brain damaged."
#Shattered
Jobs bristled when his mom and dad were called adoptive. Of Paul and Clara Jobs he said: "They were my parents 1,000%"
Book says Jobs had this to say of biological parents: "They were my sperm and egg bank." He assured his biological mom it all worked out OK
Enough for now. Hopefully, this busrt will give you a taste of Walter Isaacson's forthcoming bio of Steve Jobs. Seems worth buying, yes?
The NY Times received a copy as well and writes about the exotic cancer treatments that Jobs sought to fight his battle.
I know it's not even Halloween, but Santa already knows what I want (if I can wait that long and don't buy it for myself on Monday).
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