剛才看到一篇新聞:「 Will Steve Jobs Attend Tomorrow’s iPhone Event?」
關於這點我也很在意,我個人也真的很希望Jobs明天能出現在發表會中,但依媒體的報導、最近一直沒有出現在任何媒體前面、還有唯一授權自傳的出版日期(原本是明年)被提前至今年11月21日,可以「推理」出他的病況也許不樂觀。我個人是認為這個日期,可能是依據醫生的預估而推演出來的?
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2011/10/6 09:30更新:
果然Jobs的死訊被證實了,Apple官網首頁都在紀念Jobs。自傳的日期果然是配合醫生的預測而來的?
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不過我認為這次如果會發表iPhone Nano的話(iPhone 5也許會是叫作iPhone Air?),應該會有機會實際當場Demo時,利用語音操作來打電話給Jobs當發表會高潮。因為Nano沒有鏡頭,螢幕也太小無法進行視訊,看不到本人實際情況大概會是最佳的解決方式,又不會讓媒體後來批評Apple利用Jobs生病來打「悲情牌」。
至於Jobs的自傳,我是肯定要買的啦!他也與作者說過:他做過很多錯事,但也沒有做過任何不能說給大家聽的事,所以盡量挖吧!
I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that, he said. But I don’t have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out.
作者也說明Jobs並沒有任何限制他不能寫入自傳的要求,更沒有要求要先讀過自傳後才能出版…
以下是Amazon的產品說明,也是自傳後面的文字:
Product Description
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.
About the Author
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.
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2011/10/5 09:30更新:
結果發表會中只有出現iPhone 4S,雖然最後介紹的「語音助理」的確還蠻炫的,而且價格與我更之前在ZDNet所預測只要把舊的產品放入低階來賣就夠讓人頭痛的了,但我對整場發表會真是蠻失望的,尤其Jobs又沒出現,讓人不禁心裡在想:「少了Jobs怎麼就差這麼多?」
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