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For those who haven't yet, I'd highly recommend reading "Steve Jobs", the biography by Isaacson. It portrays pretty much all of these events like Woz describes
by rtpg 13y ago
For those who haven't yet, I'd highly recommend reading "Steve Jobs", the biography by Isaacson. It portrays pretty much all of these events like Woz describes them, and is a very complete portrait of Jobs. Woz' status at HP as referenced isn't really covered, but his actions during the Apple I and II launches are pretty complete.
EDIT: I'd like to point out that this book covers everything, up to Jobs death, and is about Jobs, not Apple. There's obviously a lot about Apple, but a good amount about Pixar ,NeXT, and Jobs' personal life as well. A great biography IMO, but it's not much about technology.
- lancebailey 13y agoAlso check out woz's book iwoz.
- vinceguidry 13y agoPurchased, thanks.
- CountHackulus 13y agoiWoz is also a decent recollection of those times. A very interesting read overall though focuses more on Woz than on Jobs.
- raverbashing 13y agoAnd I recommend the reading of iWoz It goes in much deeper detail in some Apple aspects (until the Apple II, of course) but it's a nicer book in general (I mean, less rushed) But they are both great reads.
- oinksoft 13y agoI thought iWoz was bittersweet, even cautionary. Here's this brilliant guy doing unbelievable work, then after he makes it he's just spending his time figuring out what to do with the money ... and he designs a new remote so he can watch TV better.
- rbanffy 13y agoThat is the journey of a maker. You make things. Some of them are wildly successful, others less so, but you still make them. You don't do it for the commercial success, you do it for the art, for the job well done, and because you wouldn't do anything else.
- appledroid 13y agoHe's a big kid at heart.
- simonh 13y agoIt turns out people like Woz need people like Steve Jobs, and people like Steve Jobs need people like Woz. Steve moved on to actively search for, find and collaborate with as many people like Woz as he could. Unfortunately for us Woz never moved on, but then maybe he did what he needed to do.
- rodgerd 13y ago> It turns out people like Woz need people like Steve Jobs Nope. Woz gives every impression that he'd be perfectly happy inventing stuff, rich or not. He doesn't really need a Steve Jobs, and the exploitation by someone who presented himself as a friend mostly seems to have caused him a lot of heartache.
- simonh 13y agoAnd made him richer than you or I can ever dream of, and got his inventions to change the lives of millions of people, but apart from that...
- rodgerd 13y ago> And made him richer than you or I can ever dream of, That's the whooshing sound as a point goes over your head. You obviously care about that. Jobs obviously cares about that. It is nopt obvious Woz cares about that at all.
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- MrJagil 13y agoI'd very much recommend you to listen to a certain episode of Hypercritical (i believe) with John Saracusa, in which he slams the book heavily. I still very much like the book, but as with everything, it's nice to get another experts view on the topic.
- at-fates-hands 13y agoAgreed. I saw a few articles about it and purchased it. I wasn't disappointed. It paints a very complete picture of Jobs. I loved the sections on his relationship with Gates.
- gnaffle 13y agoWhile I think the book was worth the read, I think Isaacson was wrong on so many small and big things and failed to go into others, and he really did a poor job with the book. I recommend the two Hypercritical podcasts about the book, which really goes into some depth about the problems with the book: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42 http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/42 (starts 18 minutes in) http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/43 http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/43
- TillE 13y agoThe short version is that Siracusa recommends "Infinite Loop" by Michael Malone as the best single source for Apple history prior to the return of Jobs, and he says that the post-return material in the Isaacson book (ie, everything unique that it offers) is poor and/or limited.
- lostlogin 13y agoSiracusa and short version are not things that go together and long may this last. The only tolerable thing about my daily commute is listening to him discuss his pet peeves. File systems, TVs, programming languages, the Minecraft install process (great episode) ebook formatting etc. He must be interesting to know as there are very few things he appears just accept and use without pondering improvements.
- username223 13y agoI never get tired of listening to his Incomparable episodes on "Star Wars." And, of course, the final Hypercritical episode, in which he dissected his own podcast.
- barsky 13y agoThe Minecraft install process was on his new podcast. Here's the episode: http://atp.fm/episodes/25-thrustmaster-joystick http://atp.fm/episodes/25-thrustmaster-joystick But yes, John Siracusa is a national treasure.
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- adharmad 13y agoSeconded. The book is great! A small nitpick though is that it does not go into as much detail into the making of the iPod, iPhone and iPad products as much as the earlier Apple products (Apple, Macintosh etc.). Would have loved to read more insider accounts on the evolution of the Apple product in the 2000s.
- caycep 13y agofolklore.org, a site maintained by Andy Herzfeld, also has some good tidbits about the rest of the Apple and specifically the Mac team.