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Laddar... Steve Jobs : en biografi (2011)av Walter Isaacson
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» 6 till Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. There are probably not many people who have never heard of Steve Jobs. When I approached Isaacson's biography of the Apple founder I knew that Jobs worked together with Steve Wozniak to create Apple, lifted product presentations to a never-seen-before level, was in competition with Bill Gates and eventually had to resign from Apple because he had terminal cancer. Isaacson't biography showed me that there was so much more to learn about Steve Jobs. His biography is one of the best, if not the best, biography I have ever read. The structure, the degree of detail, the mixture of personal stories about Jobs and public ones, the writing style, the different perspectives that are shown, I very much like everything about this book. In my view, the author manages to provide an honest behind-the-scenes look into the life of Steve Jobs. The book is a superb insight into who Steve Jobs was as a person and also a wonderful story of his ideas, achievements and career. This biography is an outstanding 5-star read. Highly recommended.
Steve Jobs dreamed of a legacy that awed people. He wanted to be in the pantheon of great product innovators, indeed surpassing Edwin Land and even his early icons William Hewitt and David Packard. But, Jobs created more than great products. Just as significant was his ability to create great companies with valuable brands. And, he created two of the best of his era: Apple and Pixar. Isaacson’s book is long, dull, often flat-footed, and humorless. It hammers on one nail, incessantly: that Steve Jobs was an awful man, but awful in the service of products people really liked (and eventually bought lots of) and so in the end his awfulness was probably OK. It is not Isaacson’s fault that Jobs from early on had a “admixture of sensitivity and insensitivity, bristliness and detachment,” as Isaacson describes it, or that Jobs abandoned friends, thought almost everyone else was a shithead, showed little interest in his daughters, and made life generally miserable for anyone who had to provide a good or service to him. But it is Isaacson’s fault that the biography is so narrowly focused on one moral theme. The reader is left to judge, with plenty of evidence both ways—and a clear idea of where Isaacson’s sympathies lie—whether Jobs deserves the Artist’s Exemption. As Walter Isaacson says in this incisive biography, Jobs behaved like a Nietzschean superman, using his will – transmitted through an unblinking stare – as a remote-control device that compelled others to do his bidding. While Jobs was a vigorous competitor, he also came to view himself as an elder statesman with a responsibility for giving advice to Google’s Page, Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other emerging technology executives, according to “Steve Jobs,” an authorized biography by Walter Isaacson and published by CBS Corp. (CBS)’s Simon & Schuster. It goes on sale Oct. 24. Mr. Isaacson treats “Steve Jobs” as the biography of record, which means that it is a strange book to read so soon after its subject’s death. Some of it is an essential Silicon Valley chronicle, compiling stories well known to tech aficionados but interesting to a broad audience. Some of it is already quaint. Mr. Jobs’s first job was at Atari, and it involved the game Pong. (“If you’re under 30, ask your parents,” Mr. Isaacson writes.) Some, like an account of the release of the iPad 2, is so recent that it is hard to appreciate yet, even if Mr. Isaacson says the device comes to life “like the face of a tickled baby.” Ingår iInnehållerÄr avkortad iPriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
Steve Jobs, ikonen Den egensinnige kreatören, den maniske perfektionisten. Vi kände honom som den store uppfinnaren, den som revolutionerat vårt sätt att umgås och förhålla oss till världen och totalt förändrat vårt vardagsliv. Men vem var han? Och hur kom han att bli till den ikon han är idag? Vilka var hans drivkrafter? Vilka tankar och människor påverkade honom, stöttade honom, bjöd honom motstånd? För första gången berättar Steve Jobs om sitt liv och sitt arbete. Under flera års tid och i över fyrtio intervjuer har Steve Jobs berättat öppenhjärtigt för vetenskapshistorikern Walter Isaacson om sin uppväxt, sitt privatliv och sin karriär. Han har inga skäl kvar att dölja någonting. Här berättar han allt. Det här är historien om en man som mer än någon annan personifierar vår tid, en symbol för den mänskliga kreativiteten och ett synsätt där form och innehåll är lika viktiga. Steve Jobs har, med sitt driv och sin ständiga jakt på perfektion, totalt revolutionerat vår värld och vårt sätt att leva. Han släppte in datorn i hemmet, gav den tecknade filmen en renässans, stöpte i ett enda slag om musikindustrin med sin i-Pod och med i-Phonen förvandlade han telefonen till ett oumbärligt vardagsredskap -- och en väldigt kul leksak. Samtidigt. Steve Jobs avled i oktober 2011, 56 år gammal. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Ridiculous turns, cheap romance, cutting through major happenings with no explanation or details. It was a waste of time, I've expected much, much more :( (