Blog dedicated to all things Steve Jobs
The US Mint announced on October 15th that it would mint a $1 coin to honor innovation from states including California, represented our very own Steve Jobs – check it out: This design presents a young Steve Jobs sitting in front of a quintessentially northern California landscape of oak-covered rolling hills. His posture and expression, as he is captured in a moment of reflection, show how this…
Very touching homage from Apple honoring Steve Jobs memory on the 10-year anniversary of his passing today. I have very little to add I m still sad he is no longer with us. Here s the video reposted on YouTube for posterity, as well as the letter from Laurene the kids: Statement from the Jobs family For a decade now, mourning and healing have gone together. Our gratitude has become as great as our…
Quick update — I finally got around to publishing two long way-overdue pages of the website: the Bibliography, with an up-to-date almost-exhaustive list of books and movies about Steve Jobs; and the About Us page, which tells the story of the website (which turned 15 last month!). Do let me know your feedback on both.
I m proud to share an exciting update that I ve been working on for a while. Have you ever found yourself wondering: I swear I heard Steve Jobs say this in a keynote, or an interview, or was it a speech? One of those in the early 2000s, but which one was it? Well, you need not worry about this anymore — as some of the videos in our collection now feature transcripts! You ll identify them thanks to…
Finding myself with a bit more free time on my hands than usual, and this being the year where we ll be mourning the 10-year anniversary of Steve s passing, I decided to update the website with content that I had been coming across recently. After Steve passed in 2011, I fully expected things about him to come out (say, books that would not have been dared to be written while he was alive), but I…
Most of you have probably seen this by now, but for the record — journalist Steven Levy, investor Esther Dyson, and First Round partner Chris Fralic (a board member of the Computer History Museum) hosted a Clubhouse on February 23, the day before what would have been Steve Jobs 66th birthday, inviting people to share stories about him. People who follow this know I m a sucker for Steve anecdotes —…
Two interviews of Lisa came out that are worthy of your time: the Guardian interview, which also includes some excerpts at the end. This sentence caught my eye: She understood, at some level, that his heart was elsewhere, that it was the people he worked with – or the work itself – that got the very best of him. the below video interview with Today (NBC News). First time I see a video of Lisa.…
Will write in more detail about Lisa s book when I get a chance or maybe once I ve read it but in the meantime, for those that haven t been following, check out these three stories original excerpt from Vanity Fair more excruciating details in the excerpts of this NYT feature Laurene s response to Lisa via a statement to Business Insider
Nice little anecdote on how Steve jobs convinced Lucent s CEO of producing the first Airport cards for the original iBook. https://wifinowevents.com/news-and-blog/how-a-meeting-with-steve-jobs-in-1998-gave-birth-to-wi-fi/
Interesting beer spotted by a friend in South Korea!
Nice museum all about Apple in Italy check it out! https://www.facebook.com/aaamuseum/
Check out these great first-hand memories from Chris MacAskill, a former NeXT employee, who convinced Steve Jobs to speak at the 1991 Unix Expo. Loved this bit in particular: It seemed like a dream when, two years later, I walked into Steve’s office to ask him to give the keynote at Unix Expo in New York. It didn’t go well at first. I was nervous because I was new to the computer industry. Steve…
The contemporary opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs now available on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/3tIWs92ipMRVl7M6PTziO0?si=JZJd3PfySy-pm5QkJeTsUg and Apple Music https://itunes.apple.com/album/bates-the-r-evolution-of-steve-jobs/1388100437?ign-mpt=uo%3D4
Select excerpt from a detailed and lively anecdote posted on Facebook by Jim Black, retailing a visit of John Carmack to Apple s offices to discuss graphics in Mac OS X (I presume this took place in 2001): What happened next was one of the most impressive things I’ve ever witnessed about Steve or any Silicon Valley exec. Early on in the discussion, the Apple engineer realized that “graphics…
John Carmack remembers his work relationship with Steve Jobs. His last sentence sums it up: I corroborate many of the negative character traits that he was infamous for, but elements of the path that led to where I am today were contingent on the dents he left in the universe. I showed up for him. One particular anecdote stood out to me: One time, my wife, then fiancée, and I were meeting with…
Another nice retrospective on the original iMac launch by Macworld veteran Jason Snell: https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/05/the-original-imac-20-years-since-apple-changed-its-fate/
Great retrospective that I encourage reading through as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the iMac introduction! 20 years of iMac: A story of relentless design iteration 9to5Mac
What did Alan Kay and Steve Jobs talk about at the 2007 iPhone keynote? answered by Alan Kay himself on Quora https://www.quora.com/What-did-Alan-Kay-and-Steve-Jobs-talk-about-at-the-2007-iPhone-keynote/answer/Alan-Kay-11
Harper Collins reveals Steve Jobs’ first daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, will publish a book about her relationship with her father in September http://www.harpercollins.ca/9781443457101/small-fry via Mac Rumors
Steve Jobs’ 1973 job application fetches $174,000 at auction: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/03/steve-jobs-1973-job-application-fetches-174000-at-auction/