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The books of Jobs

Thursday, November 05, 2009 - 09:48 PM EDT

"Of all the pithy, pointed, and quotable sentences uttered about Steve Jobs during his three decades on the national scene, my favorite comes from an early Apple colleague: 'He would have made an excellent king of France.' Except even Louis XIV would envy the quantity of words spilled by two generations of journalists trying to tell us what King Steve is really like," Daniel Okrent reports for Fortune.

"I'll confess: I didn't read every page of the 21 Jobs-related books stacked so thickly on my desk that there's barely room left for my 24-inch, 2.93GHz iMac, my 120GB iPod, my iPhone G3, or my backup Mac Mini," Okrent reports. "(I've taken a pass on the Apple TV, which seems about as necessary as a backache.)"

MacDailyNews Take: Your loss, Danny Boy, your loss.

Okrent continues, "Time was a problem, of course, but there was also what I call the Moritz factor: Page 177 in one Apple (AAPL) book is likely to be a rewrite of page 252 in another, which reformulates something from page 96 in yet another, which was originally found in 'The Little Kingdom,' by journalist Michael Moritz. Like, for instance, the king of France line, which has spread through the Jobs literature like a viral video on YouTube."

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Fred Mertz" for the heads up.]

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Nov 05, 09 - 11:27 pm Comment from: Darkfire

Ah, originality at it's best.
Will we soon see, "Nothing new under the Apple Books?"

Nov 05, 09 - 11:50 pm Comment from: Cascadians

I don't think any of the books have captured SJ accurately.

I'd rather read his autobiography written by himself.

Nov 05, 09 - 11:59 pm Comment from: mike

by the way, it hurts to read this. you're saying the 'King of France' line is clever?

What was the point of this post. Go buy a 'Little Kingdom' book?

Nov 06, 09 - 12:19 am Comment from: Cascadians

a) Jobs will never do an autobiography
b) I'll assume you know all autobiographies are written by the Subject
c) If Jobs ever did write his own book, which he won't, don't you think he's the kind of guy that would totally lie about his life, make stuff up, and make himself look like the hero and the victim on every page. Why would you want to read that?

My old boss was just like SJ. 99% of what he says is self-serving bullshit.

My old boss, however, was not a visionary. Also not a billionaire.

Nov 06, 09 - 01:45 am Comment from: Totally off topic but good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StRqmPHOKEc&feature=player_embedded

Nov 06, 09 - 03:27 am Comment from: BlackWolf

Who the hell would want to be compared to any king of france, not one of them was ever worth a damn.

Just for kicks go type "french victories" into Google and hit the "I feel lucky" button.

Nov 06, 09 - 04:10 am Comment from: Hercule Eelbait

I'd rather type in "American defeats".
Oh, wait, I don't have to. I just have to turn on the news...

Nov 06, 09 - 06:45 am Comment from: MacShiz

@ Hercule

Touché. Can't argue with that.

Were it not for the victory of a particular french by the name of LaFayette, we'd all be speaking english now...um... wait....

Nov 06, 09 - 09:32 am Comment from: Bluefin

@MacShiz: funny. nicely done

Nov 06, 09 - 10:22 am Comment from: MidWest Mac

@ Cascadians

I'd say your boss wasn't 99 percent of Steve Jobs.
Seems to me the whole visionary thing would negate, oh, about 98 percent of the 99 percent of which you speak.

Nov 06, 09 - 10:31 am Comment from: qka

As for the TV, maybe Daniel Okrent doesn't

1) watch much TV, and/or

2) hasn't seen the need for the expense of going to HDTV.

Both are reasons why I don't have an TV either.

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