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recently the official biography of Steve Jobs was released unlike many other books that discuss bits and pieces from various points of view this goes over all from how Jobs was adopted all the way through the release of the iPad to an iCloud the book begins with the early days of jobs and woz practing ATT's network with devices known as blue boxes helping lay the groundwork for the pair to begin Apple computers it's also very blunt and honest about jobs including how he was almost entirely out of his daughter's life for years his surprising sensitivity they went along with his harsh brash nature as well as his insistence that doing drugs in his youth was one of the best experiences of his life one of the things that struck me was the incredible cast of characters some of the well-known tech giants of today including Bill Gates or integral parts of the story of how Apple came to be as well as the genesis of Microsoft of course Jobs held nothing back in his opinion of gates the book also goes into detail with Steve Jobs as involvement in Pixar and his ouster and eventual return to Apple to save the dying company he also talks about the origins of some of the most popular Apple devices of today such as the iPod iPhone and iPad for example when designing the iPhone there are two main models they were considering p1 which would be a phone based around the click wheel and p2 which would used a large multi-touch display Paul of course the final version had a multi-touch screen it would have been a sight to see how the iPhone would have been with a click wheel instead the Steve Jobs biography is a hefty 16 56 pages however I must say I thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it as I devoured the book during the past few days if you were interested in the history of Apple or even just want to look back at the incredible time that it was started in I highly recommend you give it a shot