Steve Jobs Official Biography Coming in 2012
Publisher Simon & Schuster have announced that the first official biography of Apple supremo Steve Jobs will be published early in 2012.
"iSteve: The Book of Jobs" from Walter Isaacson marks the first time that Jobs has authorised an official account of his life to be written, and it will make an extremely interesting read indeed.
Born in 1955 in San Francisco he founded Apple Computer in 1976 but has done much more with his life than just give the world the iPhone. His life has been traumatic at times including a high-profile power struggle at Apple that saw him leave the company in 1985 and that gave birth to NeXT computer. This was Jobs in typical Jobs fashion taking a great idea, in this case the Apple Lisa and refining it for the next generation.
When Jobs eventually returned to a flagging Apple almost ten years later, he brought all the NeXT innovation with him. His vision for a computer in every home took a very different approach from that of Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Jobs saw the need for great design to be integral to the product and when the iMac launched in 1998 it received universal acclaim and saw Apple and Jobs projected into the stratosphere. There was no looking back for the company after this time.
His business interests didn't just extend to Apple however. In 1986 he bought a computer graphics company that was later to be known as Pixar from Lucasfilm for a tiny $10 million. By the time Pixar was owned by Disney it had become the most well known and successful movie graphics company of all time, surpassing LucasFilm's own Industrial Light and Magic. Pixar was and still is, as Apple is today, a household name.
In his personal life he has most notably battled with pancreatic cancer and has had to take two sabatticals from Apple, one ongoing now, for health reasons. This has prompted great speculation and concern over who could possibly take over at Apple to fulfill Jobs' vision and keep the company's products maintaining the high standards that Jobs has insisted upon.
Jobs has had a notoriously aggressive and demanding management style and is famously outspoken, allegadly telling an iPhone 4 user who was having signal problems "not to hold it that way then". There can be little doubt however that Steve Jobs is one of, if not the most successful CEO of any computer startup. He was most recently honoured by having an action-figure made of him.
Biographer Walter Isaacson is a former executive at CNN and Time magazine and has written best-sellers about Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. In a press statement the publisher of Simon & Schuster, Johnathan Karp said "This is the perfect match of subject and author, and it is certain to be a landmark book about one of the world's greatest innovators."
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Martin, I would appreciate that you do not censor this post, as it’s informative writing.
Onur, there is a misleading statement “[…] GIFs are animated images …”. No, obviously you don’t seem to have take much notice of what you were told back in March regarding; Graphics Interchange Format (GIF).
For example, https://www.ghacks.net/2023/03/31/whats-gif-explanation-and-how-to-use-it/#comment-4562919 (if you had read my replies within that thread, you might have learnt something useful). I even mentioned, “GIF intrinsically supports animated images (GIF89a)”.
You linked to said article, [Related: …] within this article, but have somehow failed to take onboard what support you were given by several more knowledgeable people.
If you used AI to help write this article, it has failed miserably.
EMRE ÇITAK posts are useless because they are fraught with inaccuracies and are irrelevant.
AI is stupid, and it will not get any better if we really know how this all works. Prove me wrong.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IYl1sTIOHI
Martin, [#comment-4569908] is only meant to be in: [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/09/how-to-send-gifs-on-iphone-two-different-ways/]. Whereas it appears duplicated in several recent random low-quality non relevant articles.
Obviously it [#comment-4569908] was posted: 9 July 2023. Long before this thread even existed… your database is falling over. Those comments are supposed to have unique ID values. It shouldn’t be possible to duplicate the post ID, if the database had referential integrity.
Don’t tell me!
Ghacks wants the state to step in for STATE-MANDATED associations to save jobs!!!
Bring in the dictatorship!!!
And screw Rreedom of Association – too radical for Ghacks maybe
GateKeeper ?
That’s called “appointing” businesses to do the state’s dirty work!!!!!
But the article says itself that those appointed were not happy – implying they had not choice!!!!!!
Rreedom of Association is one of our most important rights. Some people think it’s Freedom, but no, I say Rreedom is far more important. There are many STATE-MANDATED associations that save jobs, that’s right MANDATED. I can’t name any of them, but rest assured they are bad, because saving jobs are bad, and people having jobs leads to dictatorship!!! Anyone who disagrees is too radical for Ghacks maybe, because I’m not sure.
@The Dark Lady,
@KeZa,
@Database failure,
@Howard Pearce,
@Howard Allan Pearce,
Note: I replaced the quoted URI scheme: https:// with “>>” and posted.
The current ghacks.net is owned by “Softonic International S.A.” (sold by Martin in October 2019), and due to the fate of M&A, ghacks.net has changed in quality.
>> ghacks.net/2023/09/02/microsoft-is-removing-wordpad-from-windows/#comment-4573130
Many Authors of bloggers and advertisers certified by Softonic have joined the site, and the site is full of articles aimed at advertising and clickbait.
>> ghacks.net/2023/08/31/in-windows-11-the-line-between-legitimate-and-adware-becomes-increasingly-blurred/#comment-4573117
As it stands, except for articles by Martin Brinkmann, Mike Turcotte, and Ashwin, they are low quality, unhelpful, and even vicious. It is better not to read those articles.
How to display only articles by a specific author:
Added line to My filters in uBlock Origin: ghacks.net##.hentry,.home-posts,.home-category-post:not(:has-text(/Martin Brinkmann|Mike Turcotte|Ashwin/))
>> ghacks.net/2023/09/01/windows-11-development-overview-of-the-august-2023-changes/#comment-4573033
By the way, if you use an RSS reader, you can track exactly where your comments are (I’m an iPad user, so I use “Feedly Classic”, but for Windows I prefer the desktop app “RSS Guard”).
RSS Guard: Feed reader which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services.
>> github.com/martinrotter/rssguard#readme
We all live in digital surveillance glass houses under scrutiny of evil people because of people like Musk. It’s only fair that he takes his turn.
“Operating systems will be required to let the user choose the browser, virtual assistant and search engine of their choice. Microsoft cannot force users to use Bing or Edge. Apple will have to open up its iOS operating system to allow third-party app stores, aka allow sideloading of apps. Google, on the other hand, will need to provide users with the ability to uninstall preloaded apps (bloatware) from Android devices. Online services will need to allow users to unsubscribe from their platform easily. Gatekeepers need to provide interoperability with third-parties that offer similar services.”
Wonderful ! Let’s hope they’ll comply with that law more than they are doing with the GDPR.
No, they didn’t lmao.
https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1706523877478670542
What does this article about Musk/Tesla have to do with computing, devices, phones?
More irelevant filler.
yeah sure… they are always the victims and it is only against them ????
Believe them 100% and never question anything. This lawsuit sounds like the type you heard when people were eating batteries.