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Title: Apple gives stamp of approval to new Steve Jobs biography Post by: HCK on March 24, 2015, 03:00:11 am Apple gives stamp of approval to new Steve Jobs biography
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about Steve Jobs, a new book is about to set the record straight with some help from Apple.</p><p> Becoming Steve Jobs (http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Steve-Jobs-Evolution-Visionary/dp/0804127794), an unauthorized biography from Fast Company reporters Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, wasn’t given the stamp of approval from Jobs himself, but the book—out on Tuesday—has plenty of support from Apple. CEO Tim Cook, design head Jony Ive, and Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior VP of software and services, have all publicly bashed Walter Isaacson’s official look at Jobs (http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/1442369051), which was published after his death in 2011. Jobs picked Isaacson to write his biography and didn’t exert any editorial control over the end result, which painted the Apple cofounder in a largely unflattering light.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2900540/apple-gives-stamp-of-approval-to-new-steve-jobs-biography.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Apple gives stamp of approval to new Steve Jobs biography (http://www.macworld.com/article/2900540/apple-gives-stamp-of-approval-to-new-steve-jobs-biography.html#tk.rss_all) |