On Sun, 12 Feb 2012, Toma Sharple wrote:
It's worth nothing that the story, whether or not true, has been around for some time. I'm sure it's either in Steven Levy's "Hackers" or "Fire in the Valley" (from someone else) dating from the mid-eighties. Both were books aimed at "technical" people, while later works were aimed at business types or the general public. If there was a garbling, or false attribution, I'd tend to think it would be in the latter rather than the earlier books. In the mid-eighties, Steve Jobs was relatively unknown (he was known, but not the extent of today where a large portion of the population either has iPods or knows about them, and knows about Steve Jobs).On Feb 3, 6:29 am, limtc <thyech...@gmail.com> wrote:Steve denied this in his biography. There are often 2 sides of the story.I passed this along. He certainly is interested in hearing Jobs's side of things, but admitted that a biography of Jobs hadn't been tops on his list of interests. Then he later asked, which book are we talking about? A search for "jobs biography" comes up with a few of them. "I, Steve", is a collection of quotes and stories, though actually from Jobs himself. The Walter Isaacson book seems like it might be the one you mentioned.
I like you're bit about him maybe perceiving the job as "being done" by handing it off to someone else. That has potential, and certainly in later books, that would fit the less technical nature of such books.
Michael