Steve Jobs (book)

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Steve Jobs is the authorized biography of Steve Jobs ' life and work written by Walter Isaacson . It is subtitled "The Authorized Biography of the Apple Founder". In the English original it is simply called "Steve Jobs". The first version was published shortly after Jobs' death on October 24, 2011 by Simon & Schuster , New York. The first edition in German translation was published just a few days later on November 2, 2011 by C. Bertelsmann Verlag . There are now numerous other approved editions, such as paperbacks or e-books . In 2015, a film adaptation was released that was directed by Danny Boyle .

Emergence

In the introduction to the biography Isaacson describes in detail how the work was created: Steve Jobs took the early summer of 2004 for the first time contact with him, to talk about the creation of a biography as Isaascon previously similar works on Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin had written . According to his own admission, Isaacson initially turned down the offer, assuming Jobs' career would last a decade or two. Contact between Isaacson and Jobs became closer again in 2009. The decisive factor for the collaboration was a conversation between Isaacson and Jobs' wife Laurene Powell Jobs , who had pointed out Isaacson's health problems and in particular his cancer . The actual beginning of the activity as a writer marked a phone call on New Year's Eve in the year 2009, so Isaacson. At that time, Jobs told him the first details about his childhood and the relationship with Hewlett-Packard .

The introduction states that Isaacson conducted around 40 interviews with Steve Jobs in total. In addition, he spoke to over “100 friends, relatives, competitors, opponents and colleagues” in order to verify the information provided by the Apple founder. Before the introduction, the biography contains an overview of “important people”, although it is not clear whether these are exclusively Isaacson's interlocutors or other people.

content

The biography tells the main character's life and work in alternating order. Jobs and other people are represented in the third person, while Isaacson appears as the narrator in first-person form only in the introduction. Pictures are usually shown at the beginning or at the end of a section. The biography consists of a total of 41 chapters, which are headed as follows:

  1. "Childhood: abandoned and chosen"
  2. "A strange couple: The two Steves"
  3. "The dropout: Turn on, tune in ..."
  4. "Atari and India: Zen and the Art of Game Design"
  5. "Apple I: Turn on, boot up, jack in ..."
  6. "Apple II: The Beginning of a New Era ..."
  7. "Chrisann and Lisa: He who was abandoned"
  8. "Xerox and Lisa: Graphical User Interfaces"
  9. "IPO: A Rich and Famous Man"
  10. "The Birth of the Mac: You say you want a revolution"
  11. "Reality Distortion Field: Play by your own rules"
  12. "The design: real artists simplify"
  13. "The Mac is being built: the journey is the goal"
  14. "Enter Sculley: The Pepsi Challenge"
  15. "10 - 9 - 8 ...: A dent in the universe"
  16. "Gates and Jobs: When Orbits Cross"
  17. "Icarus: What goes up ..."
  18. "NeXT: Prometheus Unleashed"
  19. "Pixar: Technology Meets Art"
  20. "A Made Man: Love Is Just a Four Letter Word"
  21. "Toy Story: Rescue is coming for Buzz and Woody"
  22. "The Second Coming: What a mangy animal, the time has now come ..."
  23. "The renewal: For the loser now will be later to win"
  24. "Think Different: Jobs as iCEO"
  25. "Design principles: Jobs and Ive's studio"
  26. "IMac: Hello (again)"
  27. "CEO: Still Crazy After All These Years"
  28. "The Apple Stores: Genius Bar and Siena Sandstone"
  29. "The digital hub: From iTunes to the iPod"
  30. "The iTunes Store: I'm the Pied Piper"
  31. "Music Man: The Soundtrack of His Life"
  32. "Pixar's friends ... and enemies"
  33. "Macs for the 21st Century: Apple is something extraordinary"
  34. "Round one: Memento mori"
  35. "The iPhone: three revolutionary products in one"
  36. "Round two: Cancer is coming back"
  37. "The iPad: the dawn of the post-PC age"
  38. "New fights: and the old ones reverberate"
  39. "To infinity: the cloud, the spaceship and beyond"
  40. "Round three: Wrestling with the twilight"
  41. "Legacy: The Brightest Heaven of Invention"

literature

  • Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs . The Authorized Bio of the Apple Founder. 1st edition. Bertelsmann, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-570-10124-7 .
  • Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs . The Authorized Bio of the Apple Founder. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-74491-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ C. Bertelsmann Verlag: Official website for the book ("Publication date: November 2, 2011"). Retrieved February 28, 2013.
  2. ↑ Ingo Schiweck: Paperback bestseller: Please become my biographer! In: Spiegel Online . September 17, 2012, accessed February 3, 2013 .
  3. ^ Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs . Page xv . In the original: "It turned out that he wanted me to write a biography of him. [...] Because I assumed that he was still in the middle of an oscillating career that had many more ups and downs left, I demurred. Not now, I said. Maybe in a decade or two, when you retire. "