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★ Apple創辦人賈伯斯畢生唯一授權自傳
★ 美國原裝進口，原汁原味的閱讀體驗
★ 2009~2011年逾40次貼身採訪賈伯斯、訪談賈伯斯100多名親友、同盟與競爭對手，深入了解這位改變世界的傳奇人物
「我做過一些不光采的事…但我沒甚麼不可告人之處」---賈伯斯
2004年初夏，賈伯斯致電本書作者華特‧艾薩克森(Walter Issacson)，表明希望Issacson為他撰寫傳記。作者在過去兩年間，面訪賈伯斯本人及逾百位受訪者，細說他開創六大產業革命包括：個人電腦、動畫、音樂、電話、平板電腦、數位出版的心路歷程 (許多人甚至將「零售店面的呈現」歸為賈伯斯第七大革命。他還是以販售app啟動數位內容市場的推手)。
讀者也能從字裡行間看見賈伯斯的「創新」，他將創意落實到科技，因而成立結合豐富想像力與驚人程式設計的公司，改變本世紀人類的溝通模式。
一向對個人隱私保密到家的賈伯斯，更破例在本書大談私下的人生際遇 (比方自己的戀愛關係)，還鼓勵作者訪問他的前女友及競爭者，讓讀者貼近最真實且全面的賈伯斯 (文/歐蘭紐頓)。
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHIES OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND ALBERT EINSTEIN, THIS IS THE EXCLUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF STEVE JOBS.
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
作者簡介
艾薩克森(Walter Issacson)曾任CNN董事長及《時代》雜誌主編，出過愛因斯坦、季辛吉、富蘭克林等名人傳記。
Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and of Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter.
