Walter Isaacson’s official biography of Steve Jobs is now available for download, via iTunes or Kindle.
In the book, as reviewed by Christina Bonnington of Wired.com, Isaacson revealed ‘surprising’ things about Jobs:
- Jobs wanted to destroy Android
Jobs was quoted saying, “I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong… I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this.”
He was also quoted telling Google’s Eric Schmidt: “I don’t want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won’t want it. I’ve got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that’s all I want.” - Jobs expected to die young
Jobs was to said believe he would die young. As such, he wanted to accomplish as many things as he could to “make his mark on Silicon Valley history”. - Jobs became an expert on cancer treatment
After being diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer, and initially refusing surgery, Jobs did his own studies, and decided on new innovative treatments for himself. - Jobs was setting up Apple to ensure it remained strong after he passed on
According to The Wall Street Journal, after Jobs was diagnosed with cancer, he started grooming talents. Apple is reported to have an MBA-like program called “Apple University”, which started in 2008. In the program, Apple’s culture and business ethos are passed on to top executives. - Jobs didn't think Apple was ready for Apps
Art Levinson, Apple board member, told Isaacson that Jobs "at first quashed the discussion, partly because he felt his team did not have the bandwidth to figure out all the complexities that would be involved in policing third-party app developers.” - Jobs was Hippie-like
Jobs had experiences with LSD in the 60s, and took a character-forming trip to India. Jobs told Isaacson, “[These experiences] reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could”.
When he named Apple: he was on a diet that was solely of fruits and vegetables, had just returned from an Apple farm, and believed the name was “fun, spirited, and not intimidating”.
[via Wired.com]
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