Walter Isaacson, the historian and biographer who has written Steve Jobs’ authorized account of his life, appeared on 60 Minutes Sunday night to discuss the book Steve Jobs and the man behind it.
60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft conducted the interview, providing the first detailed insight into the biography, which hits stores early today.
Steve Jobs was already gravely ill with cancer when he asked author Walter Isaacson to write his biography. Jobs told Isaacson to write a honest book – about his failings and his strengths.
60 Minutes, 10.23.11 (43:09)
Steve Jobs, part 1 (15:46)
Steve Jobs, part 2 (13:00)
Steve Jobs on his rivals (5:02)
Steve Jobs: Family photo album (4:49)
MacDailyNews Note: More info and pre-order link via Apple’s iBookstore (U.S.16.99) here: Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson.
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60 minutes puts their pessimistic view on him as expected.
I disagree with that. I greatly admire Steve Jobs’, but he was a human and had flaws. That does not diminish my admiration for him. I don’t think they struck a perfect balance, but I enjoyed the piece.
You know life isn’t fair when Steve Jobs is gone, and Eric Schmidt, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Steve Ballmer, etc etc, are still walking around.
But they have to breath the odious gas they created for the world.
Yuck!
Funny that Zuckerberg/Facebook get praise and Gates/Microsoft and Google not so much. Then again the Facebook is not a real rival as the video portrays.
While Zuckerberg could be a swindler towards his parters who financially helped him to establish FB, he still himself related to the core concept this social network.
Google does not receive this praise since they stole Android UI from iPhoneOS (now iOS).
Video links are blank on my iPhone. Please fix
Videos are in Flash.
I thought the 60 Minutes piece focused too much on the negative aspects of his personality. The story about his biological father bragging to his sister about having served SJ at his previous restaurant, not knowing that SJ was his son was crazy, though. Amazing story.
As I pointed out in the previous article here about Mr. Isaacson, he made some wildly inaccurate statements about Apple in his interview, specifically about the down period after Marketing Morons in Apple managed to stockpile $1 Billion in Mac Performas no one wanted.
To correct Isaacson’s blunders: Apple was never ’90 days to bankruptcy’ and were never ‘out of money’. These are merely statements that extend the hatred and vitriol from the press and competitors from that time period. Possibly they were meant to make Jobs look like an instant savior of an impending corpse, which is ridiculous. There is no proof to back up Isaacson’s claims. If you want to argue about it, please read the results published in Apple’s financial statements for 1996 through 1998, then turn around and go home. Bye-bye.
One kind person here pointed out that Isaacson never sought to be an expert on Apple history, only Jobs’ history. Therefore, I wish he had simply kept his mouth shut with respect to his ignorance of Apple.