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WaryInvestor  11/01/2011 02:33 AM Report

I missed part of this interview so went to watch on your site. Impossible to watch this webcast with the flowplayer you use. I note that others are having the same problem, Why, oh why can't you use the regular flash SW so we can all watch this show. Also...I think someone ought to check and see of your webmaster is still on the job since he refuses to acknowledge emails. Thanks

wsegen  10/30/2011 02:12 PM Report

Love the show, BUT, your flower player hiccups, half way through an interview. and stops. This is the only newsworthy site that causes me problems, so........any suggestions???

thanks. will segen

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/29/2011 02:02 AM Report

The two words used repeatedly about Steve Jobs in this interview are trepidation and focus.

In Toy Story, back in Andy's room, there's trepidation all around as the aging toys worry that they might be replaced by more modern playthings.

Buzz Lightyear shows up and takes the favorite place on the bed. Woody's worst fears are realized when this new technology appears to replace him.

Steve Jobs is Woody, Buzz Lightyear is the technology but in this case, no matter Woody's focus, he could not make the rescue.

Saultxyca  10/28/2011 03:17 AM Report

Version 2.0:

Bought my copy of Isaacon's "Steve Jobs" bio last evening and pulled an all-nighter reading it. As a longtime resident of Silicon Valley, and closely connected to kernel-tier high tech, I conclude along the lines of Peggy Lee: Is that all there is? In 600 pages the dots were not connected in so many obvious ways (gaps and omissions galore), leaving readers, and definitely readers in the loop, baffled and annoyed. A more definitive biography of Steve Jobs is yet to be — edgy, believable, plugged in and fact checked (i.e., El Camino Real or "El Camino," not "Camino Real") against the dry-cleaned spin and tedious clichés and contradictions. Not a "whitewash"?

The juice on Jobs is mercifully in the pipeline now. Never pronounce genius lightly, even at the bar ...

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JohnGelles  10/28/2011 02:09 AM Report

In post below I promised a previous comment. Here it is -- and it's not much:

..... "Jobs never screamed that I remember to make in America what he sold in America. Why not?"

Yet it may express my feeling that Jobs and Gates did not help the PC revolution turn America in a new direction to prevent economic problems now exploding in our face.

Why should I have wanted them to do that? It was probably a mission impossible.

Nevertheless, I have a feeling Amazon and Jeff Bezos and the Google team may help America and their customers improve their lot more than Jobs and Gates. "Help America and Americans?" Is that the mission of Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google? Or is there mission more private than that?

It is their mission by my dim lights. It is the mission of all businesses I admire. It is also the mission of all their customers. Why buy what they sell if in the end what they do will not tend to help our nation and lead to better not worse times?

Conventional wisdom says not to worry. These great corporations have helped America remain the leader in the information sciences. But they have also manufactured where costs are lowest and not campaigned prevent the hollowing out of our manufacturing industries.

So shoot me. I wanted Jobs and them to do more than may have been possible.

Isaacson's career and opportunities may have been more responsible for our failures than those billionaires. He has been in major media. Are they not the guardians of our democracy?

I better quit while I'm still alive. I wanted all our big shots to have prevented the decline that threatens our posterity. They did not do it. They think it was my fault as much as theirs. But the truth is that if our big shots were worth our admiration, they would have done what I expected them to do -- and not settled for so much less. Noblesse oblige.

Saultxyca  10/28/2011 01:48 AM Report

Bought my copy of Isaacon's Steve Jobs in Mountain View last evening and pulled an all-nighter reading it. As a longtime resident of SV, and closely connected to kernel-tier high tech, I conclude along the lines of Peggy Lee: Is that all there is? In 600 pages, the dots were not connected in so many obvious ways, leaving readers, and definitely readers in the know, baffled and annoyed. The definitive biography of Steve Jobs is yet to be — the fascinating one that feels real and plugged in and fact checked (i.e., El Camino Real or "El Camino," not "Camino Real") against the dry-cleaned spin and tedious clichés and contradictions.

The juice on Jobs is mercifully in the pipeline now. Never pronounce genius lightly, even at the bar ...

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JohnGelles  10/28/2011 01:31 AM Report

My experience with PCs began with the Commodore PET and continued with IBM like PCs. I never used the Apples that many in the arts found superior. After that, the Ipad made me dizzy. I'm getting a Kindle Fire.

I'm typing on Logitech attached to an HP PC using Windows XP. I never saw a Pixar movie or used an Apple phone or music player. I've never been inside an Apple store.

So I've missed all opportunities to meet Steve Jobs except for watching the Apple ad that threw the hammer into 1984.

Most people used the IBM-like PC. But music and phones were Apple's triumph and, perhaps my mistake.

I have been into computers all my life -- but not as far in as I might have been if I had been a Steve Jobs or Wozniak fan. Still I expect to read the Isaacson biography on my Kindle Fire.

So what about this interview and this archive without a transcript?

I will copy my take on it that I put on another page in the archive: just a minute, while I fetch it.

doodeedoo  10/27/2011 02:16 PM Report

Who's going to write a book about Steve's brother, Joe? Xavier Hollander maybe.?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/27/2011 02:45 AM Report

Perhaps he should have talked about Michael Eisner and the deal to buy Pixar. Then we might have really got to know Steve.

He stopped short when talking about Steve's daughter with another woman. The daughter left and then came back . . . why? What happened to cause her to leave?

Also, his biological father--why did Steve write him off for life having just met him by chance at the restaurant his biological father owned. Did Steve find nothing to like in the giver of 23 of his chromosomes?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/27/2011 02:33 AM Report

So Steve Jobs had the intuition for what emotionally connects. So is this emotional IQ?

We heard Bill Clinton has a very high emotional IQ. How would we compare it to Steve Jobs?

Usually the tech guys aren't the communication guys so what is going on with such unique brains?

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/27/2011 02:28 AM Report

Connecting engineering to creativity is the key and one really good reason Apple beat Exxon Mobil this year in market capitalization ($337B to $334B).

(Charlie, with all the talk this year about creativity/innovation we need a panel or series.)

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/27/2011 02:24 AM Report

Steve Jobs demanded that boot up time be cut by 10 seconds.

God bless him for this alone.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  10/27/2011 02:22 AM Report

WOW! We have reached critical mass.

He said he turned the book in in June.

Steve Jobs died October 5th.

Three weeks later: BOOM! All in one week: "60 Minutes", "Fresh Air", "Charlie Rose", "Piers Morgan" . . .

If Jonas Salk could only have been as lucky as Steve Jobs.

(By the way Charlie, guess who is the only one who doesn't offer a transcript on his website?

http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=141653658

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-20124391/steve-jobs-revelations-from-a-tech-giant/?tag=mncol;ls t;6

Piers not up yet.)

laupan  10/27/2011 12:53 AM Report

However any of us feel about Mr. Jobs and Company their achievements have impacted a great number of people in the world in a very short amount of time. Considering the population now of 7 billion worldwide. The impact maybe the greatest in the history of the world and their products will continue evolving and changing.

The number of achievements from someone of such humble beginnings, a reminder of Edison, Ford and other trailblazers in recent history.

He passed at such a young age we must wonder what other great accomplishments he and his team may have made to our society.

OLAN  10/26/2011 08:11 PM Report

Another point is that Job was successful early enough to have made a lot of money to be able to invest in his intuition.

shastadaisy  10/26/2011 06:14 PM Report

Never saw so many sour grapes in all my life! And it's Xerox, not Zerox.

JohnHanley  10/26/2011 02:01 PM Report

I aggree with the previous comment by WShaw. As someone who has never purchased an Apple product, I find myself mystified by claims that Steve Jobs "changed the world". Mr. Isaacson's description of Jobs picking out the floor tile and the color of the restroom signs as an example of how he "changed the store" is an example. It sounds like hyperbole to me.

WShaw  10/26/2011 01:39 PM Report

I have no desire to launch an attack on either Mr. Jobs nor Mr. Isaacson but nonetheless must admit to feeling a degree of distress while watching this show. Lost somehow in almost all the comments being made post-Job is the fact that most of what he "created" was in fact more often than not "borrowed" from others..often without prior approval. Parts for the early computers were pilfered from his employee, and the infamous user friendly operating system was the result of research conducted by Zerox. So I would tend very much to agree with Jobs as having his major talents as a salesman rather than as an engineer. Perhaps even more importantly, whenever I hear Jobs being credited with "Changing The World" rather than Jesus or Ghandi coming top mind I think of the commercial for the vegetable slicer that runs constantly on TV. Is anyone seriously suggesting that iTunes and Job's other marketing ploys rate up their with the work of folks for whom there is more to life than Toys? As Edward Abbey said many years ago, "We had a Good Thing in America but got carried away..."

REMant  10/26/2011 11:07 AM Report

On 60 Mins Sunday Mr Isaacson said almost exactly what I wrote here about Jobs, that he was a salesman not an engineer. Now he's trying to say he was something more than that. But Jobs was no researcher or engineer like Edison, who worked out systems to record both audio and video, and perfected the light bulb. Edison was awarded 1093 US patents. It appears in fact that Jobs did nothing of any value on his own his entire life, not even write his own scripts. His company aimed at the same objective as most American firms the past several decades, to sell stuff with a fat margin to ppl who could afford them, not like Ford make things his workers could buy. His products could just as well been Air Jordans or Polo shirts. And so far there's been no Apple Foundation. See http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/the-mystery-of-steve-jobss-public-giving/ If he was focused on product instead of profit, he was just as arrogantly and intensely proprietary. The fact is that the Carnegie's and Rockefeller's of this world have really had very little impact on it, for good or ill. In the process of all this jobs transformed himself into a cult figure and it appears Isaacson was just the person to bring that to fruition.