STEVE JOBS Reexamined

A year after his death, Steve Job's life gets reexamined. This special episode of BOOKD is about Walter Isaacson's biography, STEVE JOBS, exploring the colossal achievements and intense personality of Apple's iconic co-founder.

Join "60 Minutes" correspondent Steve Kroft, "Cult of Mac" editor Leander Kahney, bestselling author Steven Johnson, Guggenheim President Jennifer Stockman, psychologist and author Guy Winch, documentary photographer Doug Menuez, and Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson for a heated discussion on the tech world's most controversial figure.

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SPECIAL THANKS
Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Front Cover Photo © Albert Watson
Back Cover Photo © Norman Seeff

Additional photography credits include:
Steve Jobs at the Next Computer offices courtesy of Robert Holmgren
Steve Jobs with the Apple iPad courtesy of Matt Buchanan
Steve Jobs with the MacBook Air courtesy of Matthew Yohe
Steve Jobs at the WWDC07 courtesy of Ben Stanfield and Matthieu Riegler

Jennifer Stockman is the President of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and she also worked at IBM when Steve Jobs was just getting started with Apple.

Walter Isaacson is the CEO of Aspen Institute and was formerly the chairman of CNN as well as the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of three biographies - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, EINSTEIN, and most recently, STEVE JOBS.

[thnkr]

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[harpersneil]

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[Saternoc]

Fair enough. Some people think Steve Jobs was overrated, I don't.

I do give credit to Steve Jobs as a businessman ultimately. When I associate him with PIXAR I never envisioned him as a director or movie producer, but he did rescued that company. He founded NEXT. I don't exactly what he did there, but his computers still contributed to the tech revolution.

[salimhuerta]

I read the introduction to the book after finding it in Walmart, man when I am a practicing doctor I am going to use my money to buy so many books, books make me happy.

[BoomersGold]

My definition of 'inventing' something is to make something from scratch. To design how it will work and to 'make' it work. Jobs was only ever involved in the aesthetics of Apple's product and therefore can't be called the 'inventor' of anything. He was like Henry Ford in that he wasn't an engineer, but a great businessman who used his fame to introduce products to consumers worldwide.

[BoomersGold]

Here's a quote from Wozniak (from woz.org):
"Steve didn't ever code. He wasn't an engineer and he didn't do any original design..."

[Saternoc]

I know EXACTLY what you mean. I know people who can read on the treadmill or stair master but I was never able to master that.

[zulutheman]

"How much did your phone suck before the iPhone?" It sucked really hard. XD

[revcletis]

Jobs fell out with Christianity early in life. "The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it, " he told Isaacson. Jobs seemed to be more interested in the spiritual than the religious. Still one of the smartest guys on the planet :)

[KatiHathor]

it was a good book, what i found most interesting was his borderline personality disorder and his obsession with various diets

[KingKoin]

Steve is a genius and Jennifer Stockman is very pretty for her age

[presidentkush]

i read this book when i was 11 years old it was a great book i have now read about 16 times

[treeky]

Look at how psychedelic is not bad as it was. If you take just right amount you're gonna be okay and enlightened yourself.

[BoomersGold]

It's because he never actually contributed to the inventing of the first two Apple computers. He was just the marketer of Wozniak's inventions., hence why some people don't like him.

[gadda]

was the book by any chance revolutionary?

[BoomersGold]

Lol. Let's examine him as a tech guru, then proceeds to show Steve Jobs' accomplishments as a businessman. No one hates him as a businessman!
It's just that he's commonly misrepresented as an 'inventor' or engineer, which makes real engineers mad. Jobs got his patents by contributing to the aesthetics side of a product (not the actual engineering of them).

[influenceis]

#influenceisLEGACY This video depicts his perfectly.

[jarenlittle]

Theres this great part in the quran that basicly says that you cant be religous if your religous because of fear of hell or want for heaven. Im not religous but i think it would be a lot better if people followed that.

[rwech]

I think as far as a biography goes, it is one long ad for macintosh.  especially the second half.  It was fawning.  sad really, because there is certainly a story to tell. Isaacson just didn't tell it. 

[revcletis]

I am so grateful to live in a time where God blessed the world with a "bible rejecting genius" that is Steve Jobs, Millions of Apple product users can't be wrong. And to think, if it was not for Apple there would be no Windows either ". Hope this helps clear things up ;)