Today, TIME releases a special commemorative issue on Steve Jobs to hit newsstands and tablet devices tomorrow, Friday, October 7.
To produce this special issue, TIME stopped the presses on its previously planned issue in order to devote its cover and 21 pages of the full issue to Jobs’ life and career. The issue includes a six-page essay by Jobs’ biographer Walter Isaacson, a historical report on Jobs career by TIME technology reporters Harry McCracken and Lev Grossman and a photo essay by Diana Walker, who has been shooting Jobs for TIME since 1982.
The cover image is a photograph of Jobs taken by Norman Seeff in 1984. This is the seventh time Jobs has appeared on the cover of TIME.
The magazine is increasing its print run for this special issue, which will be available worldwide.
TIME Editor Rick Stengel: Jobs “Will Take His Place In The Ranks of Great American Businessmen And Inventors Like Thomas Edison And Henry Ford”
“This is Steve’s seventh TIME cover, which puts him in the category of Presidents and other world leaders…. No one has tracked Steve’s life better than the man who used to have my job, Walter Isaacson… Walter writes that Steve was the modern creation myth writ large and that he revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing and digital publishing.”
Walter Isaacson: Jobs Was “The Greatest Business Executive of Our Era, The One Most Certain To Be Remembered A Century From Now”
“More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the beauty of poetry and the power of processors. With a ferocity that could make working with him as unsettling as it was inspiring, he also built what became, at least for a period this past month, the world’s most valuable company. And he was able to infuse into its genetic code the design sensibilities, perfectionism and imagination that make it likely to be, even decades from now, the company that thrives best at the intersection of artistry and technology.”
TIME’s Harry McCracken and Lev Grossman: “Steve Jobs Remade The World As Completely As Any Single Human Being Ever Has”
“Jobs will be remembered as a great man, but not necessarily as a kind or good one. His ferocity toward his employees is the stuff of legend: outside Apple, his products helped a generation to think different, but inside One Infinite Loop, there was only one way to think, and that was like Steve. He did not suffer fools gladly— or at all. Unlike his contemporary and rival Bill Gates, he never made the transition from plutocrat to philanthropist. The perfection of the tools he made bespoke of both a deep empathy with others and also a raging aggression toward them: he would make things so perfect that we could not refuse them.”
The issue’s table of contents can be found here.
MacDailyNews Take: Not all philanthropy is accompanied by a press release. Before making blanket statements, perhaps it would be wise to consider that maybe Jobs did things privately, without fanfare?
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