Steve Jobs passed away. RIP

[Fletcher]

Oh and two idiots in line for the 4S

I wonder if they're on CS?

 

[gsums]

I like that Apple has set up and e-mail address for it, very touching.

who are the emails being sent to? i know apple i am maybe being stupid here but can you read other peoples tributes to him??

 

[DeeKay86]

Here is a sample from the upcoming Steve Jobs Biography...

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/06/the-day-steve-jobs-called-walter-isaacson/

In the early summer of 2004, I got a phone call from him. He had been scattershot friendly to me over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new product that he wanted on the cover of Time or featured on CNN, places where I'd worked. But now that I was no longer at either of those places, I hadn't heard from him much. We talked a bit about the Aspen Institute, which I had recently joined, and I invited him to speak at our summer campus in Colorado. He'd be happy to come, he said, but not to be onstage. He wanted, instead, to take a walk so we could talk.

That seemed a bit odd. I didn't yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned out that he wanted me to write a biography of him. I had recently published one on Benjamin Franklin and was writing one about Albert Einstein, and my initial reaction was to wonder, half jokingly, whether he saw himself as the natural successor in that sequence. Because I assumed that he was still in the middle of an oscillating career that had many more ups and downs left, I demurred. Not now, I said. Maybe in a decade or two, when you retire.

But I later realized that he had called me just before he was going to be operated on for cancer for the first time. As I watched him battle that disease, with an awesome intensity combined with an astonishing emotional romanticism, I came to find him deeply compelling, and I realized how much his personality was ingrained in the products he created. His passions, demons, desires, artistry, devilry and obsession for control were integrally connected to his approach to business, so I decided to try to write his tale as a case study in creativity.

A few weeks ago, I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant. We talked about his childhood, and he gave me some pictures of his father and family to use in my biography. As a writer, I was used to being detached, but I was hit by a wave of sadness as I tried to say goodbye. In order to mask my emotion, I asked the one question that was still puzzling me: Why had he been so eager, during close to 50 interviews and conversations over the course of two years, to open up so much for a book when he was usually so private? "I wanted my kids to know me," he said. "I wasn't always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did."

Also a couple of interesting bits here:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1241412

 

[DeeKay86]

Some great videos etc on this site:

http://www.allaboutstevejobs.com/index.html

 

[N0ddie]

His life is such a cool/fasinating story. Cant wait to get the full book (On iPad obviously).

 

[DeeKay86]

Is there any way (apart from buying both) that I can get it on iPad AND Hardback for a single price??

Oh and those of you who are interested, I reccommend watching this: (from when Steve left Apple the first time at started NeXT):

part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9dmcRbuTMY

part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn3Ex-5dPAo&feature=related

 

[Tom]

Remembering Steve is up, it starts a little slow. Then Jony Ive speaks and Coldplay bang out a cracking set.

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/10oiuhfvojb23/event/index.html

 

[olliewebbuk]

Not appearing for me yet, just says available soon.

 

[Tom]

Streaming video requires Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion, Safari on iOS 3 or later, or QuickTime 7 on Windows.

 

[Millsy]

Just got my Physical book from Amazon, Wasn't meant to turn up until Thursday, I can see a late tonight, its a pretty hefty book.

 

[Revels]

Did you pay for fast del?

 

[Millsy]

Nope, just the free one

Its got @Home 72 written on the postal address sticker, I'm amazed it got here so quick tbh.

 

[Tom]

Mine hasnt even been shipped.

 

[Millsy]

Got my shipping email yesterday with a delivery date of the 27th. When did you order Tom?

 

[Revels]

I got an email yesterday but mine says 26th.

Fingers crossed it's at home.

 

[Tom]

Got my shipping email yesterday with a delivery date of the 27th. When did you order Tom?

6th

 

[Millsy]

6th

Same day I did mine, looking back at my despatch email it got despatched by Yodel, so I'm even more surprised they managed to find my work address as usually they're useless.

Hopefully your's will turn up soon, I presume you ordered through Amazon?

 

[sneeks]

I only ordered the book today for £12.50 from Amazon, I see it's down in price from 2 weeks ago.

 

[Tom]

LOL, its been dispatched. This second.

 

[AK]

£12.99 in iBooks.

 

[The Boosh!]

I don't understand how the electronic version is more than the paperback.

 

[sneeks]

The hardback was £16.50 from Amazon but they are now running a 50% off sale so it's reduced from £25 to £12.50.

 

[olliewebbuk]

Streaming video requires Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion, Safari on iOS 3 or later, or QuickTime 7 on Windows.

Ah. That's why then, I'm PC only at work. Watching on my phone now.

 

[Tom]

I don't understand how the electronic version is more than the paperback.

Im tempted to get the audio book for the car.

 

[Millsy]

LOL, its been dispatched. This second.

:approve:

 

[.Simon]

Just watching the Video now. Some people may think Coldplay are boring but f**k me can they put on a show!

 

[Liquid yellow 182]

Got my hardback copy today.

 

[jenic]

Just watched the event, enjoyed that.

Also got the book on iBooks last night, read a few chapters and am rather enjoying that too, couldn't be bothered waiting for it.

 

[dk]

I don't understand how the electronic version is more than the paperback.

There is vat on electronic books, not on paper ones.

Crazy but true.

 

[N0ddie]

Was anyone else prompted last night to downloaded an updated version of the electronic book?

 

[Munson]

I don't think I could read a book on iPad. Text is too fuzzy.

 

[AK]

Think that's old age .

 

[Nickson]

I don't think I could read a book on iPad. Text is too fuzzy.

Think that's old age .

Poor Roy

 

[jam.]

Like apples, apple and Steve Jobs?

good.

 

[eugegall]

Hardback book ordered.