Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson doesn't seem bothered by his critics and the upcoming whitewashed biography of Jobs (Becoming Steve Jobs).

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[10/5/11] CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) - Steve Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, from the personal computer to the iPod and iPhone, has died. He was 56. Apple announced his death without giving a specific cause.

"We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today," the company said in a brief statement.

"Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve"

Jobs had battled cancer in 2004 and underwent a liver transplant in 2009 after taking a leave of absence for unspecified health problems. He took another leave of absence in January — his third since his health problems began — and officially resigned in August.

Jobs started Apple with a high school friend in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976, was forced out a decade later and returned in 1997 to rescue the company. During his second stint, it grew into the most valuable technology company in the world.

Cultivating Apple's countercultural sensibility and a minimalist design ethic, Jobs rolled out one sensational product after another, even in the face of the late-2000s recession and his own failing health.

He helped change computers from a geeky hobbyist's obsession to a necessity of modern life at work and home, and in the process he upended not just personal technology but the cellphone and music industries. For transformation of American industry, he has few rivals.

Perhaps most influentially, Jobs in 2001 launched the iPod, which offered "1,000 songs in your pocket." Over the next 10 years, its white earphones and thumb-dial control seemed to become more ubiquitous than the wristwatch.

In 2007 came the touch-screen iPhone, joined a year later by Apple's App Store, where developers could sell iPhone "apps" which made the phone a device not just for making calls but also for managing money, editing photos, playing games and social networking. And in 2010, Jobs introduced the iPad, a tablet-sized, all-touch computer that took off even though market analysts said no one really needed one.

By 2011, Apple had become the second-largest company of any kind in the United States by market value. In August, it briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil as the most valuable company.

[10/9/11] Hmm (while recording CNBC Titans -- hey if I had Roku maybe I wouldn't need to record this to DVD-R), I see I have this old Wired Magazine with Steve Jobs on the cover on the bottom shelf of my coffee table. The date? February 1996. Tells you how long I have stuff sitting there. Time to unload it.

[10/20/11] Twenty inspirational quotes

[10/21/11] A (rambling) Preview of Steve Job's authorized biography

[10/23/11] Will Steve Jobs' final vendetta haunt Google?

[10/25/11] Steve Jobs and Me: A journalist reminisces

[11/18/11] Steve Jobs the Tweaker (by Malcolm Gladwell)

*** [4/1/14]  Documentaries on Steve Jobs (much from this thread)

92Y - Steve Wozniak (on Amazon Prime)
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview (Amazon Prime, Netflix)
Steve Jobs: Consciously Genius (Amazon Prime) [4/24/15 - now on snagfilms]
Steve Jobs: One Last Thing (Amazon Prime, Netflix)
Steve Jobs: Visionary Genius (Netflix)
Jobs [the movie starrring Ashton Kutcher] (Netflix)
Steve Wozniak Biography (youtube)
CNBC Titans: Steve Jobs (hulu)
Bloomberg Game Changers (hulu)
Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy (hulu+, youtube)
iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed The World (youtube)
Steve Jobs: In His Own Words (youtube)
Steve Jobs: Lost Interview (youtube)
Steve Jobs on 60 Minutes (youtube)
iSteve (Netflix)