Today, Walter Isaacson's highly anticipated biography of the late Steve Jobs is available to purchase from both bookstores and e-bookstores around the world. The book, which is based on more than forty interviews with the Apple co-founder, can be purchased from the iBookstore ($16.99) and Amazon ($17.88), along with many other retailers.
This week, we heard that Steve Jobs' mark will be on future Apple products for years to come, despite his death earlier this month. In addition, the iPhone 4S continued to impress and will soon be available in 22 additional countries. These and other topics made news this week. Here are some of the best articles.
Apple moments ago posted the entire video of the October 19 event celebrating Steve Jobs’ life. The 80-minute streaming video, filmed on the Cupertino, California Apple campus is available now via Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion, Safari on iOS 3 or later, or via QuickTime 7 on Windows.
In case you've missed tonight's (or haven't yet seen) CBS special 60 Minutes episode on Steve Jobs and his biographer Walter Isaacson, you'll be glad to know that CBS has already posted the clips of the show on its website.
Over the past few days, extracts from Walter Isaacson's upcoming biography of Steve Jobs have been hitting the Web hard and fast. Now, The New York Times has published the first review of the book, titled "Steve Jobs." Unsurprisingly, the publication has noted that the 656 page "well-ordered, if not streamlined" text is definitely worth reading.
It sounds crazy, but according to Walt Isaacson's upcoming biography of the late Apple co-founder, "Jobs at first quashed the discussion" when Apple board member Art Levinson contacted Jobs in an attempt to push the company towards mobile apps.
On Sunday, one day before his highly anticipated official biography on Steve Jobs becomes available, author Walter Isaacson will appear on CBS’ “60 Minutes.” The interview will be conducted by Steve Kroft.
As most of us know, Apple closed its campus and retail stores for a few hours today to mourn the passing of Steve Jobs. Well as we've come to learn, Steve was working on Apple's next product launch up until his last day.
The folks at CNET UK recently released an impressive video showing the history of the iPhone and dedicated to the memory of Steve Jobs. Nearly four minutes in length, the video shows that the road to the first iPhone in 2007 was a long one.
In December 2009, Steve Jobs summoned the founders of Dropbox, Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, to the Apple Campus in Cupertino, California. Over tea, Jobs indicated that he saw Dropbox as a strategic asset that Apple wanted. Instead, we got iCloud, according to a new report first published by Forbes.
This week, the iPhone 4S arrived, leading to long lines of people looking to buy Apple's newest handset "4 Steve." Meanwhile, people can't get enough of Siri, the iPhone 4S's most exciting new feature. Here are some of the headlines from the past week.
Just how big is the iPhone 4S? Bloomberg is reporting that Apple is poised to sell as many as four million units before the end of this week. The reason? Many want to “buy one of the last products developed under Steve Jobs.”
Apple’s official celebration of Steve Jobs’ life is to be held at the company’s Cupertino, California campus on Wednesday, October 19th it was announced today, according to MacGeneration.
The recent passing of Steve Jobs has led to a huge boom in interest for Walter Isaacson's upcoming biography on the Apple co-founder. Now, in an exclusive report from Deadline, it is claimed that Sony Pictures is attempting to acquire feature rights to the biography.
TIME’s “Steve Jobs Issue” is now available at newsstands and through TIME’s iPad app. The $4.99 issue has five sections dedicated to the late Apple co-founder, include one by Jobs’ official biographer, Walter Isaacson. Each section is truly a great read.
On October 5, 2011, the world lost Steve Jobs. We here at AppAdvice, as well as millions around the globe are in mourning. This was one of the hardest shows we have ever had to put together. We will miss you Steve, but you will never be forgotten.
Marco Arment, the developer of the popular Instapaper app for the iPhone/iPod touch and iPad, has found a terrific way to remember Steve Jobs. The revenue generated from the universal app today will go to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Arment made the announcement via Twitter.