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iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
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by Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon
Sales Rank: 17334
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Discount: 32 %
List Price: $14.95
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Cover Type: Paperback with 368 pages
Published by: WileyEdition: 1st Edition April 14, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0471787841
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471787846
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
From AudioFile
Alan Sklar's skills as an actor and professional narrator rescue Young and Simon's glossy tribute to Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computers. Sklar's polished delivery and familiar voice keep the listener interested in the recording. Without a trace of sarcasm, he is able to deliver the fawning prose sculpted by the authors. While the doting praise heaped on the entrepreneur is excessive, the book is an entertaining, nostalgic review of the pre-Internet computer industry. Sklar gives a performance superior to the quality of the text. R.F. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating plunge that left him not only out of Apple, but out of the computer-making business entirely. This unflinching and completely unauthorized portrait reveals both sides of Jobs’s role in the remarkable rise of the Pixar animation studio, also re-creates the acrimony between Jobs and Disney’s Michael Eisner, and looks at Jobs’s dramatic his rise from the ashes with his recapture of Apple. The authors examine the takeover and Jobs’s reinvention of the company with the popular iMac and his transformation of the industry with the revolutionary iPod. iCon is must reading for anyone who wants to understand how the modern digital age has been formed, shaped, and refined by the most influential figure of the age–a master of three industries: movies, music, and computers.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business (Hardcover)
I agree wholeheartedly with the reviewer who observed that this book reads like a tabloid. Many passages read like copy that has been lifted from a script for some cheesy "Entertainment Tonight" type show. Poorly written and poorly organized. Jumps back and forth through time for no apparent reason and there are many redundant sentences throughout. Did the author or publisher neglect to have an editor take a look at this? People in the know will be disappointed to find that much of iCon is recycled information. Speaking of that, a writer for the SF Chronicle noted that much of his research seems to have made an appearance in iCon. He stopped short of calling it plagiarism, but it does make me wonder about the "research" that went into this project. I have no ties to Apple Computer or Steve Jobs and I am writing this review as objectively as I can. This book stinks! And that's unfortunate because I had hoped for a definitive unauthorized biography of Jobs when I picked up a copy of iCon, but this isn't it. Not by a long shot. I'd recommend Owen Linzmayer's "Apple Confidential 2.0" over this book even though it is not a biography but more of a history of Apple.
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