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iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs s meteoric rise, and the devastating plunge that left him not only out of Apple, but out of the computer making business entirely This unflinching and completely unauthorized portrait reveals both sides of Jobs s role in the remarkable rise of the Pixar animation studio, also re creates the acrimony between Jobs and Disney s Michael Eisner, and examines Jobs s dramatic his rise from the ashes with his recapture of Apple The authors examine the takeover and Jobs s reinvention of the company with the popular iMac and his transformation of the industry with the revolutionary iPod iCon is must reading for anyone who wants to understand how the modern digital age has been formed, shaped, and refined by the most influential figure of the age a master of three industries movies, music, and computers. 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Young ] – kino-fada.fr ,, , Apple,, , ,, , ,,, , Apple,, , ,, , ,, , ,Enjoyably dishy Crazy thing is the book ends before the iPhone era and even without the iPhone iPad, Jobs s list of accomplishments is huge This book may be annoying to some cos it s not especially charitable towards Jobs makes him out to be a huge asshole really and it s written in a vaguely gossipy style But I found that kind of refreshing given how uncritical anybody else has been since he died Yea...Recently Steve Jobs has been named the CEO of the decade by Fortune magazine The announcement was hardly surprising to anyone who has been following the business world over the last ten years Apple Computer, the company that he cofounded and the one that his name will always be associated with the most, has gone from the verge of bankruptcy in the late 1990s to one of the most spectacularly successful companies in the World today and the top brand name The announcement cemented his already st Recently Steve Jobs has been named the CEO of the decade by Fortune magazine The announcement was hardly surprising to anyone who has been following the business world over the last ten years Apple Computer, the company that he cofounded and the one that his name will always be associated with the most, has gone from the verge of bankruptcy in the late 1990s to one of the most spectacularly successful companies in the World today and the top brand name The announcement cemented his already stellar and legendary reputation Steve J...title of this books tell the gist of the story What Steve Jobs did with his return to Apple was truly and amazingly the greatest second act Normally people do not get such second chances in life In case of Jobs, he actually ended up earning that chance and then made billions out of it There are lots of critics, including in this book, who have accused him of riding on other s success o...I ve read this book well before Steve Jobs was dead, and before W Isaacson biography, and I think it gives an appropriate view of the good and the bad parts of his life Anyway with all the publicity after his dead, biographies like this one tend to be forgotten.Looking at the title and cover of the book, I thought this would be a book written by Jobs admirers in the Silicon Valley As I started reading it, I felt that the book was perhaps being objective by writing the truth rather than shower praise on Jobs for everything under the sun But gradually, I realized that the book pays basically only back handed compliments to Steve Jobs and tries to say that practically all the achievements for which Jobs is credited, there is someone else whose vision i Looking at the title and cover of the book, I thought this would be a book written by Jobs admirers in the Silicon Valley As I started reading it, I felt that the book was perhaps being objective by writing the truth rather than shower praise on Jobs for everything under the sun But gradually, I realized that the book pays basically only back handed compliments to Steve Jobs and tries to say that practically all the achievements for which Jobs is credited, there is someone else whose vision is stolen and presented as his ...Steve Jobs has lived a roller coaster existence He was never challenged enough in school and, therefore, never excelled He went on to cofound Apple Computers despite this lack of education Was summarily booted by the president he hired Founded another computer company that faced great difficulty getting off the ground, which it never quite did Turned a failing computer animation company into the powerhouse known as Pixar And, finally, came back to Apple and helped pick them up from the dol Steve Jobs has lived a roller coaster existence He was never challenged enough in school and, therefore, never excelled He went on to cofound Apple Computers despite this lack of education Was summarily booted by the president he hired Founded another computer company that faced great difficulty getting off the ground, which it never quite did Turned a failing computer animation company into the powerhouse known as Pixar And, finally, came back to Apple and helped pick them up from the doldrums that he started before his ousting and that continued while he was gone These facts are known by many in the business arena, but do you know the details behind these events Jeff Young and William Simon detail the life of Steve Jobs in great detail and it s fascinating to say the least And they are not afraid to pull out the questionable and controversial details and present them to the readers as we...A LITTLE slow at the start, this book quickly becomes a very fast read as you re fascinated by Steve Jobs drive to build, his legendary feuds with colleagues and business associates, and towards the end his scaling the heights of wealth and fame Near the end, as he becomes a mogul of three industries computers, movies and music , you just can t put it down And unbelievably, after all this success, the book was written before the iPhone So the authors sense...Steve Jobs was an iconic character during his time primarily because of his command of the revolutionary company Apple I am sure that most of us are very intrigued about his personality and his personal life to begin with At the same time we have formed a portrait of Steve with all the media coverage to this point identifying him as an overly zealous, ambitious, unconventional, passionate and ruthless early technology entrepreneurs The author Jeffrey S Young rightly identifies with the reade Steve Jobs was an iconic character during his time primarily because of his command of the revolutionary company Apple I am sure that most of us are very intrigued about his personality and his personal life to begin with At the same time we have formed a portrait of Steve with all the media coverage to this point identifying him as an overly zealous, ambitious, unconventional, passionate and ruthless early technology entrepreneurs The author Jeffrey S Young rightly identifies with the readers extreme curiosity and perc...As a long time Apple, music and animation movies fan, I am probably biased in writing this review But during the years I started to learn using and programming NeXT and Macintosh computers, watched great movies like Toy Story and Finding Nemo , and listened to my music collection on my iPod, I was not even aware of the fact that all this pleasure was financed and partly created by this one man Steve Jobs.The story in this book may not always be very positive about Steve, but to me it highlig As a long time Apple, music and animation movies fan, I am probably biased in writing this review But during the years I started to learn using and programming NeXT and Macintosh computers, watched great movies like Toy Story and Finding Nemo , and listened to my music collection on my iPod, I was not even aware of the fact that all this pleasure was fi...

iCon
  • English
  • 11 August 2017
  • Paperback
  • 368 pages
  • 0471787841
  • Jeffrey S. Young
  • iCon