Steve Jobs
/ Walter Isaacson
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition
- xxi, 630 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages [575]-577) and index.
Introduction : how this book came to be Childhood : abandoned and chosen Odd couple : the two Steves The dropout : turn on, tune in Atari and India : Zen and the art of game design The Apple I : turn on, boot up, jack in The Apple II : dawn of a New Age Chrisann and Lisa : he who is abandoned Xerox and Lisa : graphical user interfaces Going public : a man of wealth and fame The Mac is born : you say you want a revolution The reality distortion field : playing by his own set of rules The design : real artists simplify Building the Mac : the journey is the reward Enter Sculley : the Pepsi challenge The Launch : a dent in the universe Gates and Jobs : when orbits intersect Icarus : what goes up NeXT : prometheus unbound Pixar : technology meets art A regular guy : love is just a four-letter word Family man : at home with the jobs clan Toy Story : Buzz and Woody to the rescue The second coming : what rough beast, its hour come round at last The restoration : the loser now will be later to win Think different : jobs as iCEO Design principles : the studio of Jobs and Ive The iMac : hello (again) CEO : still crazy after all these years Apple stores : genius bars and Siena Sandstone The digital hub : from iTunes to the iPod The iTunes store : I'm the Pied Piper Music man : The sound track of his life Pixar's friends : ... and foes Twenty-first-century Macs : setting Apple apart Round one : Memento Mori The iPhone : three revolutionary products in one Round Two : the cancer recurs The iPad : into the post-PC era New battles : and echoes of old ones To infinity : the cloud, the spaceship, and beyond Round three : the twilight struggle Legacy : the brightest heaven of invention