Pad Gems: Steve Jobs Editions Of Bloomberg Businessweek+, Fortune, Time + Wired. By Jeremy Horwitz ● Tuesday, October 1. Immediately after Steve Jobs passed away last week, a number of business and technology publications released downloadable special editions dedicated to the life and career of Apple’s founder and former CEO—predecessors to the upcoming authorized biography that’s been bumped up to a late October, 2. The special editions could each be understood as miniature books or partial magazines, though they’re mostly just collections of magazine- style articles that were previously issued by the publications in past issues. Mostly” is the key word, however, as one publication transcended the rest with new content, and another did a particularly good job of aggregating decades of past content. We downloaded four of these publications in i. Pad- readable formats so that we could give you a sense of what’s inside; our main goal was to help you decide whether any or all are worthy of purchasing considering how many stories about Jobs are available for free. Read on for all the details. Bloomberg Businessweek+Recently reborn with a widely praised redesign and improved editorial focus, Bloomberg Businessweek scrapped its regular weekly issue in favor of a special edition called “Steve Jobs 1. OS application. The issue opens with a striking a black and white cover picture of Apple’s CEO in his later years, and after a brief explanatory video as to the issue’s creation, provides you with access to a collection of 1. What’s Great: The Businessweek+ interface is the best of this bunch, and the content is very strong, too. Each article begins with at least one photograph, more often a collection, some of which are incredibly poignant and mixed with thoughtful captions. Once you’ve looked through the photos on the first page, you scroll through additional pages of three- column text if you’re holding the i. Pad in landscape mode, or a single column of text in portrait mode. Businessweek Steve Jobs Issue Pdf MagazineEven when the content is unavoidably duplicative of what’s available elsewhere, the articles offer details that only the hardest- core Jobs fans would already know: discussions of influences such as the physician Arnold Ehret and Polaroid’s Dr. Edwin Land, choice quotes from past Jobs biographers, and even interesting insights regarding his relationships with John Sculley, Ross Perot, and others. Just one sample: “I asked him if he would sign my Apple Extended Keyboard,” recalled venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson. He burst out: ‘This keyboard represents everything about Apple that I hate… I’m changing the world, one keyboard at a time.” What’s surprising: Jurvetson’s story took place in the mid- 1. Jobs was still with Ne. . ad-free Steve Jobs tribute issue of BusinessWeek. Bloomberg BusinessWeek Announces Steve Jobs Tribute Issue. By Pete Mortensen • 9:31 pm, October 5, 2011. . Steve Jobs Editions Of Bloomberg Businessweek+, Fortune. Of Bloomberg Businessweek+, Fortune, Time + Wired. of the Steve Jobs issue in the. Bloomberg Businessweek’s Steve Jobs Issue. issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, which is dedicated through and through to the memory of Steve Jobs. The issue is. XT. In addition to the text, three different downloadable audio clips provide nearly a full hour of additional content, including Jobs’s famous commencement speech at Stanford, a 3. Eric Schmidt. There’s a ton here for the $3 asking price, and for that, you actually get a one- month subscription to Bloomberg Businessweek+. What’s So- So: If you’ve read past Jobs biographies or really followed the man’s history, only the little nuggets will really appeal to you; unsurprisingly, the broad stories have already been told again and again. Download Bloomberg Businessweek. (STEVE JOBS special, watermarked).pdf. is a special one since Bloomberg has created an issue dedicated to the late Steve Jobs. Additionally, the text- heavy layouts could really have benefitted from more intermediary photography and interactive content, particularly in a section called “More Stories About Steve: The Quotes,” which includes a number of references to products and people that could have been illustrated as well as “The Glossary,” a sometimes cheeky collection of Apple terms. And the photos could really have stood to be as large as Time’s. What’s Bad: Our only real gripe is that this special issue is over so soon and doesn’t go even deeper. Until the official biography comes out, this is the first place we’d start if you’re looking for interesting insights into Steve Jobs life and career. The price is right, and the little pieces of new information here are intriguing. Steve Jobs was born in 1955. and the people who knew Jobs best. It's different from any issue we've ever done. — BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998. Lounge Rating: A- . Fortune’s All About Steve: The Story of Steve Jobs and Apple. Sold as a Kindle e. Book, Fortune’s All About Steve: The Story of Steve Jobs and Apple, From the Pages of Fortune ($8. Like a black and white book with only the rare color image—even then, just a handful of cover images from past issues of Fortune—it forces you to do a lot of page- turning to move through the contents. But there’s actually a lot here to read: 1. Fortune articles from a dozen different writers, plus a very brief foreword from Fortune’s managing editor. What’s Great: The sheer quantity of information here, written in the 1. Jobs and Apple over the decades. A 1. 98. 3 article called “Apple’s Bid to Stay in the Big Time” discusses Apple’s Lisa computer contemporaneously, noting that “the Mac. Intosh” was coming “later this year,” while a 2. Jobs’ friends provides some genuinely interesting insights on the man from people who have rarely been quoted on him: Jimmy Iovine, Andrea Jung, and Andy Grove. Truly insider- level boardroom and other corporate- level discussions dating back to Jobs’ ouster from Apple continue to inform even the newer articles; Fortune notes with authority that Jobs “personally took charge of Apple’s response to the recent Locationgate, for example, granting interviews to several news outlets to answer accusations,” and discusses how, in May of 2. Apple could draw upon going forward. It’s interesting that Fortune’s articles offer more insight than Time’s, despite official Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson’s involvement with the latter publication. What’s So- So: If you’ve been reading Fortune or had access to its past archives, you’ve probably already seen everything here: apart from the foreword, everything else was published months or years ago. The e. Book is also assembled in a somewhat jarring manner, with a strong initial section—“What Makes Steve Tick”—comprised of four 2. We wound up reading the book’s articles out of order because the temporal shift was so abrupt. What’s Bad: By comparison with a well- developed app such as Bloomberg Businessweek+ or Time, each of which has user interface and photographic advantages, there’s little to like about the e. Book format used here. Navigating through the book is a comparative chore, and between the lack of photos and heavy reliance on all but entirely unformatted text, All About Steve isn’t as enjoyable to read as it could have been—or should have been for the price. But there’s enough worthwhile content here to justify a purchase, particularly if you’re mostly interested in Jobs’ business experiences. Lounge Rating: B. Time Magazine. Of all the publications here, Time Magazine’s October 1. Commemorative Issue” initially appears to have the least to offer. It features a photograph of young Steve Jobs sitting in the lotus position with the original Macintosh—the same image that will be on the back cover of his authorized biography, written by Time contributor and former editor Walter Isaacson. There are only five Jobs- related articles in the issue, which is otherwise a standard edition of Time, and one of the articles is very short—two pictures and less than two pages of large text. That said, there are some gems inside the issue. What’s Great: A photo essay by Diana Walker, In a Private Light, includes full- screen pictures and details on Jobs that aren’t new but generally have been lost to history. One image reveals Jobs’ home office circa 2. Cinema Display and a miniature Power Mac computer on his desk; another shows Jobs in behind- the- scenes preparations for a keynote speech. A timeline of notable moments in Jobs’ career does a much better job of putting past magazine covers and products in sequence than Fortune’s scant imagery. The photos throughout this issue are a major plus. What’s So- So: A retrospective of Jobs’ life, “The Inventor of the Future,” is dotted with a few interesting Jobs quotes from past issues of Time—a bit on the original i. Mac is particularly interesting—but otherwise feels like any of the free summary articles you can find online. Similarly, Walter Isaacson’s “American Icon,” a preview of his upcoming Jobs autobiography, offers only a couple of actual behind- the- scenes details regarding Jobs. Even those have already been excerpted and printed elsewhere. What’s Bad: “Apple’s Greatest Hits and Misses” appears to have been put together by someone with little appreciation for the company’s back catalog of products—two of the “misses” include Apple’s i. Pod earphones and the Mac. Book Air, which is described as “no match for the Mac. Book Pro.” While this article’s a particularly lightweight and poor fit for the rest of the retrospective, the bigger issue is that there’s just too little here. But not for some of the original photography, it wouldn’t even be worth purchasing unless you were already getting it as an existing Time subscriber. We’re hoping for greater things from Isaacson’s book. Lounge Rating: B- . Wired Magazine. Wired Magazine’s special $3 issue is called “Steve Jobs Revolutionary,” and opens with a dark image in which the side profile of Jobs’ face emerges from an otherwise black box. Featuring several stories by Steven Levy with contributions from other writers, Wired’s edition merely contains six articles that were published from 1. Editor’s Note and a longer, obituary- style look back at his life by Levy. Apart from the cover image, Steve Jobs Revolutionary is bereft of photos, just one of the ways in which this publication falls short of its rivals. What’s Great: A behind- the- scenes discussion of the original i. Phone and Motorola’s ill- fated ROKR phone is as interesting today as it was when originally published in early 2. Apple and Cingular/AT& T. Similarly, Apple fans will enjoy Steven Levy’s article on the origins of the i. Pod, discussing Jon Rubenstein’s and Tony Fadell’s roles in the project, as well as quotes from Jobs. Business Week Online: Business Week Magazine. 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