Steve Jobs (1955 – 2011)
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All illustrations drawn on iPad by Jorge Colombo If Steve Jobs's life were staged as an opera, it would be a tragedy in three acts. And the titles would go something like this: Act I-- The Founding of Apple Computer and the Invention of the PC Industry ; Act II-- The Wilderness Years ; and Act III-- A Triumphant Return and Tragic Demise . The first act would be a piquant comedy about the brashness of genius and the audacity of youth, abruptly turning ominous when our young hero is cast out of his own kingdom.
Into The Wild: Lost Conversations From Steve Jobs' Best Years | Fast Company
美國是如何失去了製造iPhone的工作？ | wa+er. 白蘋果急救室
Apple在美國雇用了43,000名員工，並在海外雇用了20,000人。與1950年代GM在美國雇用的數十萬名勞工相比，Apple的雇用人數可以說是非常小的數字。不過為Apple的承包商工作的人數比這要來的更多 ── 700,000名勞工參與了設計、生產與組裝iPad、iPhone以及Apple的其他產品。 這些問題的答案，幾乎每次都是在美國國外被發現。雖然iPhone每個版本的零件都不相同，不過在數百個零件之中，估計約有90%的零件是在國外生產的。
Steve, Myself, And i-: The Big Story Of A Little Prefix : NPR
Elaine Thompson / AP Steve Jobs did his last product launch last March, for the iPad 2. At the close, he stood in front of a huge picture of a sign showing the intersection of streets called Technology and Liberal Arts. It was a lifelong ideal for Jobs, the same one that had drawn him to make his famous 1979 visit to the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, or Xerox PARC for short. That was where a group of artistically minded researchers had developed the graphical user interface, or GUI, which Apple's developers were to incorporate into the Lisa and the Macintosh a few years later.
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Amazon: "Steve Jobs" may be company's top-selling book of 2011
Computerworld - The biography of Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs debuted today at the top of both Amazon's and Barnes & Nobles' bestseller lists. Steve Jobs , the first biography of the iconic entrepreneur written with Jobs' cooperation, was penned by Walter Isaacson , a former editor at Time. Isaacson has written bestselling biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Henry Kissinger. The book currently heads the Kindle, hardcover and audiobook bestseller lists at Amazon, and the hardcover, Nook and audiobook categories at rival Barnes & Noble.
Steve Jobs bio debuts at No. 1 spot on bestseller lists
Walter Isaacson's authorised biography of Steve Jobs details the life, times and legacy of the co-founder of Apple who is regarded by some as the greatest entrepreneur of his generation. But reviewers are questioning whether it is a true representation of the man. Joe Nocera says in the New York Times that the biography doesn't hold back at showing Steve Jobs' "incorrigible bullying, belittling and lying". However, he says it doesn't question Jobs' notion that this conduct was a way of getting the best out of people. That may be, he says, because Walter Isaacson was too close to his subject: "Part of the problem, I think, is that the bond that developed between subject and writer made it nearly impossible for Isaacson to get the kind of critical distance he needed to take his subject's true measure.
Review round-up: Is Steve Jobs' biography accurate?
It's been a mere two days since Steve Jobs died. Although it hasn't yet been revealed what his specific cause of death was, it's a good bet that Jobs' death was due to a recurrence of his pancreatic cancer, first diagnosed in 2003, for which he underwent surgery in 2004 and ultimately a liver transplant in 2009. It's a history that I outlined yesterday (at least up to the time the original posts were written) by reposting two posts I wrote about his liver transplant back in 2009 . But a funny thing has happened since then, and that's that Jobs has become a flashpoint in an argument that has nothing do with the technology his company created or his role in the history of American business and technology. Rather, it's about alternative medicine and what role it did (or did not) play in Jobs' ultimate demise. Predictably, first out of the box is the despicable crank known as Mike Adams.
Steve Jobs, neuroendocrine tumors, and alternative medicine
A couple of weeks ago, in the immediate aftermath of Steve Jobs' death, I took issue with the claims of a skeptic that "alternative medicine killed Steve Jobs." At the time, I pointed out that, although it was very clear that Steve Jobs did himself no favors by delaying his initial surgery for nine months after his initial diagnosis, we do not have sufficient information to know what his clinical situation was and therefore how much, if at all, he decreased his odds of survival by not undergoing surgery expeditiously. To recap: Did Steve Jobs harm himself by trying diet and alternative medicine first? Quite possibly. Did alternative medicine kill him?
Did Steve Jobs' flirtation with alternative medicine kill him? (update)
"Just one more thing"
I've written quite a bit about Steve Jobs' battle with pancreatic cancer over the years and, more recently , in the wake of his death nearly four weeks ago. The reason, of course, is that the course of his cancer was of intense interest after it became public knowledge that he had cancer. In particular, what I most considered to be worth discussing was whether the nine month delay between Jobs' diagnosis and his undergoing surgery for his pancreatic insulinoma might have been what did him in. I've made my position very clear on the issue , namely that, although Jobs certainly did himself no favors in delaying his surgery, it's impossible to know whether and by how much he might have decreased his chances of surviving his cancer through his flirtation with woo.
College dropout. Fired tech executive. Unsuccessful businessman. Steve Jobs will always be best known for his incredible success in guiding Apple Inc. and transforming the entire consumer computer and phone industry. But he’ll also be remembered fondly as the poster child for how making mistakes — and even failing — can sometimes end up being the best thing that ever happens to you.
What Steve Jobs taught us about failure
Video of the Commencement address. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life.
Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005)
The Soul of Apple by Kevin Kelly
This week something unusual happened. At the very same time that tens of thousands of ordinary citizens were camping out in New York, Washington, and Seattle to protest corporate greed, and the capitalistic wealth of the very rich, a similar number of ordinary citizens were depositing flowers and spiritual offerings at the corporate stores of the wealthiest company in the world (with earnings larger than most countries), in memory of one of the richest people in the world, the late Steve Jobs. Why would a billionaire elicit such affection and love during this moment of fierce dissatisfaction with global capitalism? Because Steve Jobs was a CEO of beauty. In his interviews and especially in private, Jobs often spoke about Art. Taste.Remembering Steve Jobs