A sneak peek into Steve Jobs' biography by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli revealed that he planned to buy Yahoo along with Disney Company CEO Bob Iger.
A biography slated to come out March 24 reveals new details about the intense friendship Steve Jobs had with current CEO Tim Cook. He was so close to the late co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs that he offered him a portion of his liver in the Apple co-founder's dying days.
The action is revealed in "Becoming Steve Jobs," a book by technology reporter, Brent Schlender and Fast Company executive Rick Tetzeli.
The Sydney Morning Herald noted that an extract of the book was published after it was unintentionally leaked online.
In "Becoming Steve Jobs" current Apple chief executive, Tim Cook said that he had left his friend Steve Job's house in Palo Alto one day feeling so grieved about Jobs' situation that he had his own blood tested to see if he could be a possible donor match.
According to MercuryNews, It turned out, both Jobs and Cook had a rare blood group and Cook learned that it would be actually possible for him to give up part of his organ. However, when Cook stopped by Jobs' house to make the offer, the late Steve Jobs refused.
Cook told the authors, Brent Schlender and Fast Company executive editor, Rick Tetzeli that even before the words were out of his mouth, Jobs cut him off at the legs saying he never let him do that and he will never do that. Cook was not surprised and saw that reaction as a typically selfless act by jobs.
Steve Jobs biography also reveals his close friendship with Disney chief executive, Bob Iger, who enjoyed a rare admittance to Apple design guru Jony Ive's secret lab. In the book, Iger describes how he and Jobs would stand at a whiteboard brainstorming. He revealed that he and Jobs talked about buying companies.
Iger and Jobs talked about buying Yahoo together.
According Leander Kahney, despite the fact that "Becoming Steve Jobs" benefit from the authors' hard-to-come-by acess Cook and others, the Steve Jobs biography would disappoint the iconic Apple Inc. co-founder, Steve Jobs' fan base. Kahney, who has written books about both Jobs and Jony Ive, is publisher of Cult of Mac, a daily news website about Apple.
WashingtonPost noted that the book also indicates that Steve Jobs was not particularly sold on the idea of an Apple television. In fact, Jobs was personally responsible for stopping the 20th Anniversary Macintosh, a 1997 computer that could double as a TV. According to Fast Company, Jobs - who is not known for mincing words reportedly, told the Mac's designer Jony Ive that the project was over by saying he doesn't like televisions and Apple will never make a TV again.
That said, Jobs also used to make fun of smaller tablets saying no one is going to buy a smartphone that you couldn't get your hands around. Plus, Jobs had nothing but ridicule for the stylus.
Leander Kahney said there has not yet been a good book about Jobs as he was and Apple is still so secretive. Kahney added that the people with the most interesting stories about Jobs, engineers and others, who worked closely with him for a long time, are not talking.
Which implies that people inspired and fascinated by Jobs' work and what he was able to do in his life, will have to wait to get the truly telling reminiscence that might one day portray Jobs accurately?
