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Tag: Walter Isaacson

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs spent ‘hour after hour’ on product design

Wednesday, April 24, 2024 4:20 pm11 Comments

Steve Jobs dedicated “hour after hour” to the minutiae of product design at Apple, driven by a belief of God being in the details,…

Walter Isaacson: ‘Steve Jobs said Tim Cook’s not a product guy’

Monday, July 8, 2019 3:00 pmMonday, July 8, 201922 Comments

Steve said Tim Cook can do everything but warned that ‘Tim’s not a product person’, claims Steve Jobs biographer, Walter Isaacson.

Walter Isaacson says Apple’s next big thing is ‘long overdue’

Friday, May 13, 2016 1:28 pmFriday, May 13, 201642 Comments

Isaacson puts the decline down to the fact that Apple is lacking an ‘unbelievable visionary like a Steve Jobs, but…

Steve Jobs’ daughter Lisa skips movie screening, but parties with cast

Wednesday, October 7, 2015 11:25 am5 Comments

Lisa Brennan-Jobs was spotted in the crowd at a Tavern on the Green party for ‘Steve Jobs’…

Philip Elmer-DeWitt reviews ‘Steve Jobs’ movie: ‘I loved it’

Wednesday, October 7, 2015 9:03 am6 Comments

It’s not the hit job the defenders of Jobs’ memory feared…

Aaron Sorkin: Steve Jobs just wanted to be loved

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 3:37 pmTuesday, October 6, 201521 Comments

Hollywood’s most celebrated screenwriter offered a simple psychological diagnosis of a complicated man…

The ‘Steve Jobs’ movie that Sony, DiCaprio, and Bale didn’t want is now an Oscar favorite

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 8:55 amTuesday, October 6, 201512 Comments

Michael Fassbender wasn’t Hollywood’s first choice to play Steve Jobs in the new movie about his life…

Michael Fassbender already the odds-on favorite to win an Oscar for ‘Steve Jobs’

Monday, October 5, 2015 2:16 pmMonday, October 5, 201510 Comments

The relatively obscure German-born actor playing the title role is already the odds-on favorite to win an Oscar…

Steve Jobs’ widow and friends take aim at Hollywood over ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic

Monday, October 5, 2015 8:37 amMonday, October 5, 201530 Comments

Four years after Steve Jobs’s death, a new movie is reopening a debate over the Apple Inc. co-founder’s legacy…

‘Steve Jobs’ biopic too nasty to win Best Picture award

Friday, October 2, 2015 3:28 pmFriday, October 2, 201521 Comments

Danny Boyle’s ‘Steve Jobs’ makes ‘The Social Network’ look positively warm and fuzzy by comparison…

Andy Hertzfeld: ‘Steve Jobs’ movie ‘deviates from reality everywhere’ but ‘aspires to explore and expose the deeper truths’

Friday, October 2, 2015 11:32 amFriday, October 2, 201518 Comments

Director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin have created what they call an ‘impressionistic portrait’ of one of Silicon Valley’s most iconic figures…

What do you think of the new ‘Steve Jobs’ movie trailer?

Thursday, September 17, 2015 4:55 pmThursday, September 17, 201516 Comments

The second official trailer for Universal Pictures’ ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic has been unveiled…

Woz shocked and amazed by ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic

Wednesday, September 9, 2015 10:58 amWednesday, September 9, 20155 Comments

I’ve actually seen two rough cuts. My impression was I was shocked and amazed at how good it was…

Woz praises ‘Steve Jobs’ accuracy: ‘I felt like I was actually watching him’

Tuesday, September 8, 2015 8:56 amTuesday, September 8, 20159 Comments

One of the most, if not the most, anticipated World Premieres at the 42nd Telluride Film Festival…

‘Steve Jobs’ review: Michael Fassbender is stunning in breathtaking, relentless biopic

Monday, September 7, 2015 11:00 am20 Comments

In Aaron Sorkin’s new film, directed by Danny Boyle and premiering at the Telluride Film Festival…

‘Steve Jobs’ biopic makers shooting for ‘a portrait rather than a photograph’

Friday, August 28, 2015 12:56 pmFriday, August 28, 201514 Comments

When Steve Jobs hits movie theaters on October 9th…

Kate Winslet on ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic: ‘Sorkin makes it almost not about Steve Jobs at all’

Wednesday, August 26, 2015 10:55 amWednesday, August 26, 201519 Comments

Kate Winslet’s 11th-hour casting as Joanna Hoffman…

‘Steve Jobs’ to be centerpiece at high-profile New York Film Festival

Tuesday, July 28, 2015 8:55 amTuesday, July 28, 20154 Comments

The selection left him simultaneously thrilled and terrified…

‘Steve Jobs’ movie trailer fuels debate over Michael Fassbender

Monday, July 6, 2015 5:35 pmMonday, July 6, 201538 Comments

The much-anticipated ‘Steve Jobs’ movie has created a stir…

Woz: Scene in ‘Steve Jobs’ trailer is fiction; it never happened

Thursday, July 2, 2015 9:01 amThursday, July 2, 201523 Comments

Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak said he doesn’t recognize himself…

Watch Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs in new official trailer

Wednesday, July 1, 2015 1:30 pm36 Comments

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998…

See Michael Fassbender as ‘Steve Jobs’ in first movie trailer

Monday, May 18, 2015 9:25 amMonday, May 18, 201524 Comments

The film is set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998..

UBS: ‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ better understands Jobs than Isaacson bio; ‘Tim Cook has been the right choice’

Wednesday, April 1, 2015 3:28 pmWednesday, April 1, 201520 Comments

UBS‘s Steve Milunovich today weighs in on the recently released biography…

Steve Jobs’ biographer Schlender: Elon Musk is the next great visionary

Friday, March 27, 2015 5:01 pmFriday, March 27, 201541 Comments

In a standing room only event at Apple Inc.’s shiny SoHo store…

Ken Segall: ‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ is a better portrait of Steve as a complete human being

Friday, March 27, 2015 2:58 pmFriday, March 27, 20154 Comments

What was it really like to work with Steve?

Why Apple feels the need to defend Steve Jobs

Friday, March 27, 2015 1:11 pmFriday, March 27, 20159 Comments

The normally unforthcoming executives at Apple have been praising a new book…

Tim Bajarin: ‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ the most accurate portrayal written to date

Friday, March 27, 2015 9:04 am9 Comments

From a prism of following Apple since 1981…

The Cult of Steve: Why Apple insiders are so worked up over two Steve Jobs biographies

Wednesday, March 25, 2015 10:12 pmWednesday, March 25, 20155 Comments

Someday, someone will write the definitive book about how Steve Jobs led Apple…

‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ author: Steve was an endlessly fascinating person

Tuesday, March 24, 2015 9:29 amTuesday, March 24, 20155 Comments

‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ is the only Steve Jobs biography with Apple’s stamp of approval…

Apple execs, including Tim Cook, praise new Steve Jobs biography, and criticize an old one

Monday, March 23, 2015 8:34 amMonday, March 23, 201511 Comments

Isaacson’s book has an unparalleled ability to omit the interesting…

Disney CEO Bob Iger kept Steve Jobs’s cancer a secret for three years

Friday, March 20, 2015 9:42 pmFriday, March 20, 201512 Comments

Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger knew early on that Steve Jobs’s cancer…

Apple CEO Cook blasts Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’ bio as a ‘just a rehash; a tremendous disservice’

Tuesday, March 17, 2015 10:00 amTuesday, March 17, 201541 Comments

I thought the Walter Isaacson book did him a tremendous disservice…

Jony Ive: How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product

Monday, February 16, 2015 12:04 pmMonday, February 16, 201524 Comments

Sir Jonathan Ive is now one of the two most powerful people at Apple…

Universal to release ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic in the heart of awards season on October 9, 2015

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 3:24 pmWednesday, February 4, 20156 Comments

Universal Pictures has announced it will release Danny Boyle‘s ‘Steve Jobs’ in…

Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs on the set of the new film

Saturday, January 31, 2015 2:35 pm23 Comments

Michael Fassbender will be portraying Steve Jobs in a new biopic…

Universal Pictures announces full cast of ‘Steve Jobs’ as biopic begins shooting

Wednesday, January 28, 2015 4:26 pmSaturday, January 31, 20159 Comments

Principal photography has begun in San Francisco on the ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic…

Filming for Steve Jobs biopic underway at Apple co-founder’s childhood home

Saturday, January 17, 2015 10:11 amWednesday, January 28, 20153 Comments

The garage at Steve Jobs’ childhood home…

Perla Haney-Jardine to play Lisa Jobs in Universal’s ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic

Tuesday, January 6, 2015 3:58 pm3 Comments

Up-and-coming actress Perla Haney-Jardine, whose most prominent credit…

Katherine Waterston lands lead in ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic

Tuesday, December 23, 2014 4:28 pm11 Comments

Katherine Waterston has landed a lead in the Danny Boyle-directed…

Kate Winslet eyed for female lead in ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic

Monday, December 22, 2014 6:01 pmMonday, December 22, 201411 Comments

Kate Winslet is in negotiations for the female lead in Universal’s ‘Jobs’…

Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs movie filling out cast with supporting roles

Friday, December 19, 2014 12:00 pmFriday, December 19, 20145 Comments

The role of Andy Hertzfeld will be played by…

Sony ‘stuck in 1992’ after massive hacks – except for Macs, iPads and iPhones

Thursday, December 18, 2014 12:57 pmThursday, December 18, 201453 Comments

We are stuck in 1992 over here…

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