The beginning of 2002 Apple faced a challenge. The seamless connection between your iPod, iTunes software, and computer made it easy to manage the music you
Summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs. He had been scattershot friendly to me over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new product
Strong personality was the topic that most interested me in my biographies of Franklin
Story, I interviewed more than a hundred friends, relatives, competitors, adversaries, and colleagues. His wife also did not request any restrictions or control, nor did she ask to see in advance what...
Sometimes tearing up at the memory, that once they were married,
Results in binary code with little lights. When it was finished, Fernandez told Wozniak there was someone at Homestead High he should meet. His name is Steve. He likes to do pranks like you do, and he...
Receiver from Hallicrafters, the most sophisticated radios available. Woz spent a lot of time at home reading his father’s electronics journals, and he became enthralled by stories about new computers...
Production. They had created a device with a little circuit board that could control billions of dollars’ worth of infrastructure. You cannot believe how much confidence that gave us. Woz came to the...
Poet convinced both of his own talent and of the need to be self-indulgent in order to be a great artist.
One is obliged sometimes to give up some smaller points in order to obtain greater.
One featured on its first brochure: Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Jobs felt that design simplicity should be linked to making products easy to use. Those goals do not always go together....
Not one of them. He had been Jobs’s soul mate in college, in India,
More than a good book; it’s an urgently necessary one. —Time An encyclopedic survey of all that Mr. Jobs accomplished, replete with the passion and excitement that it deserves. —Janet Maslin, The New...
Me. He was known to guard his privacy, and I had no reason to believe he’d ever read any of my books. Maybe someday, I continued to say. But in 2009 his wife, Laurene Powell, said bluntly, If you’re e...
Looking for people to design the graphical interface for Apple’s new operating system, Jobs got an email from a young man and invited him in. The applicant was nervous, and the meeting did not go well...
La intuición no es más que el resultado de una experiencia intelectual anterior.»
Key challenge for managers is how to strike a balance between being decisive and being collegial,
Inevitable call from him saying, This hotel sucks, let’s go. But Ive also captured the scattershot brilliance at the core of Jobs’s genius when he described his boss tossing out ideas at a meeting. So...
He was practical about what he wanted in a wife. Deborah was rather plain, but she offered the prospect of comfort and domesticity.
He affected an attitude that combined wiry and weird intensity with aloof rebelliousness. McCollum later said, He was usually off in a corner doing something on his own and really didn’t want to have...