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I was working at Pixar at the time and a couple of us went out to lunch when the news broke to figure out What It All Meant. We passed Steve's office on the way
by rootbear 10y ago
I was working at Pixar at the time and a couple of us went out to lunch when the news broke to figure out What It All Meant. We passed Steve's office on the way out and one of our party, who had worked with him since early Apple days, congratulated him. The big question was whether they would keep the Unix plumbing visible and useful, or would it be buried under some API layer of no use to us Unix graybeards. Fortunately, the plumbing wasn't hidden in the walls.
- wineisfine 10y agoThat's great to hear. Have you read Jobs' biography and do you think everything said about Pixtar around those times are accurately portrait?
- rootbear 10y agoSadly, I haven't gotten to it yet. That's embarrassing to admit, but my time for pleasure reading has gotten frustratingly short.
- wineisfine 10y agoIt actually reads like a solid fiction book, except that it isn't. You can skip a few dozen "romance" pages here and there and then it's really worth your while.
- user837387 10y agoCan you please mention from which author since I imagine there are more than one?
- hbosch 10y agoSteve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is generally considered the definitive biography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_(book)
- tlow 10y agoDefinitely not true. As a concrete example disproving your fallacious post, I refer to Mr. John Gruber who called Becoming Steve Jobs "the book about Steve Jobs that the world deserves". Johny Ives says of Isaacson's book, "My regard couldn’t be any lower."
- statictype 10y agoSo People involved with and around Apple didn't enjoy a book that was critical of Jobs? I too liked Becoming Steve Jobs too, but I didn't think Isacsons book was as terrible as many people made it out to be.
- freehunter 10y agoNo, it's 100% true. It's the book Steve Jobs had written as his official biography, so it's de facto the official biography. It doesn't matter if there is a better book, and your aggressive tone is not helping your argument.
- SeanLuke 10y ago"official" and "definitive" are not synonyms.
- truth_sentinell 10y agoIn this case they're, because he ain't reviewing and approving another biography.
- d0m 10y agoYou might want to read Pixar and Beyond, which seems to portrait a much more realistic view.
- jkchu 10y agoConsider reading relevant parts of 'Creativity, Inc.' by Ed Catmull if you want another side of the Jobs & Pixar events.
- jcims 10y agoDidn't Steve have an email that was in your mailbox by default when you got a new account on a NeXT machine? It had some embedded images and an audio file of him talking. Anyway, I sent whoever it was, pretty sure Steve, an email with read receipt enabled and he bitched me out for invading his privacy. This was ~93 or so.
- kalleboo 10y agoLooks like it was Steve https://www.flickr.com/photos/allardjm/480786084 https://www.flickr.com/photos/allardjm/480786084
- Theodores 10y agoApple must have had lots of emails over the years with people wanting to return a 'Next' shirt or asking if they are going to restock such-and-such jeans again. There must be someone at Next clothing (next.co.uk) dreaming that Apple sell that domain name to them one day.
- mattl 10y agoNot so much. mail.next.com goes to 127.0.0.6
- jcims 10y agohaha, i can't believe you found a screenshot. That's hilarious, i was pretty sure it was Jobs but memory is hazy. Thanks!
- jacobush 10y agoYou see, HIS privacy is (was) very important to HIM
- pmelendez 10y agoFunny, that is the same guy that in his youth cold called a CEO asking for free samples and he got it.