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Culturemodo: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

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12:15PM November 1, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Walter Isaacson’s authorised biography of Steve Jobs is a fascinating book, both in how it came to be and how it unfolds, but it’s certainly not your average celebrity puff piece. More »

12 Years In NeXT ‘Wilderness’ Helped Steve Jobs Rebuild Apple

7:30AM October 4, 2010 | Jack Loftus

How much of Apple’s current success owes itself to Steve Jobs’s 12 years of turmoil and failure away from the company as the head of NeXT? A lot, it would seem. More »

On Firing Steve Jobs From Apple, 25 Years Later

5:09AM June 10, 2010 | John Herrman

“I haven’t spoken to Steve in 20-odd years,” says John Sculley, the former Apple CEO who ejected Jobs from the company in 1985, in an illuminating, slightly painful Daily Beast interview. Hindsight is 20/20, yes, but also cruel. More »

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Apple’s Original Beach Ball Of Death

2:20PM February 27, 2010 | John Herrman

“Why the hell is Steve staring at the beach ball?” That was the question of the afternoon at NeXT’s 1987 company retreat. “It’s always about beach balls with him,” they would mutter derisively, “what’s so interesting about beach balls?” More »

An Apple Without Steve Jobs (It Almost Happened)

8:30AM November 28, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

Before he was a kingmaker at TechCrunch, Mike Arrington was a lawyer at Silicon Valley firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he worked on the deal that brought NeXT Software—and Steve Jobs—to Apple. It almost didn’t happen. More »

Steve Jobs’ Colourful Past, Rendered In Salvaged Logos

5:20AM July 22, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

I think computer makers should pull a Starbucks and bring back their classic logos, at least for one year. It would remind everybody of happier, more vibrant times. [univac/Flickr via Gadget Lab] More »