Listy do Steve'a Jobsa. W skrzynce mailowej giganta Apple.

by Mark Milian

Il fondatore dell'azienda più cool del mondo, l'uomo che ha cambiato la nostra vita quotidiana, "uno dei più grandi innovatori americani" secondo Barack Obama può trovare il tempo di rispondere ai messaggi che gli mandano i suoi clienti, fan e detrattori? Sì, se si chiama Steve Jobs. In molti gli scrivevano per avere aiuto o ricevere informazioni sui piani di sviluppo di Apple; qualcuno, a volte, per esprimere il proprio dissenso sulle posizioni dell'azienda. Tutti, comunque, rendevano pubblica la risposta che ricevevano come se fosse un bene da condividere con il mondo. Con il passare degli anni le email di Jobs sono diventate un momento atteso dai fan e dagli esperti di settore e una parte fondamentale dell'aura di leggenda che lo avvolgeva. Oggi rappresentano una prospettiva insolita per comprendere non solo il fenomeno mediatico, ma anche l'uomo che in questo si nascondeva, soprattutto negli ultimi tempi prima della morte. Arricchita dalle interviste con i destinatari dei messaggi - ad alcuni dei quali ha anche telefonato personalmente - questa "biografia per email" mette in luce il modo complesso (e anche un po' distorto) in cui Jobs dipingeva se stesso al pubblico e conferma l'originale percorso umano e professionale che ne ha fatto un mito.

Genres: Nonfiction, Technology, Ebooks

136 pages, Hardcover

First published November 21, 2011

Reviews

[J.E. Jr. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fun little book, and an interesting approach. It is peppered with clips and samples of e-mail exchanges, though not nearly as many as the title led me to believe. It gives a decent, if thin, account of the career of Steve Jobs, especially during his second time around with Apple Inc., and it does this with the e-mail correspondence at the center.

I wouldn’t highly recommend this book, and it’s probably not anything close to the quality of biography on Jobs as the others that have come out. But if you don’t know much about the man and his work leading Apple, this one would serve as a fair introduction to that.

[Tuan Pham · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cuộc đời đầy thăng trầm của một kỹ sư tài năng đã được thể hiện rất khéo léo. Thông qua nhũng cách trả lời mail của Steve mình học được cách trả lời mail rất khéo của Steve.

[Rome · Rating 3 out of 5]

I haven't read much about Steve Jobs before reading this book. I just knew that he was behind Apple and that he's very influential in so many ways. I first heard about him in 2009 and I wasn't really interested in following or reading about any CEO during my university days so I shrugged any article relating to him or to Apple. I also didn't own anything Apple so I was dismissive.

Reading this book now, I think I could say that Steve was just like everyone of us. He's human. He might have thought differently. He might have acted differently compared to all other CEOs in the world, but if there's one takeaway I'd like to remember from this book - it's that he's simply human. And we are all human. We make errors and we sometimes get a shot at winning big. Or sometimes we also fail big time.

We all set our priorities straight when we realize that we are all going to die sooner. << I also liked this point from this book.

Did this book make me interested to read more about Steve?
Not really. I guess I'd stop reading about him for now. This is an okay introduction to Steve Jobs, but it didn't make me want to know more about him. This book is well written and I like how the letters were curated and sewn together to draw the bigger picture and still it just didn't make me more curious about Steve.

[Mati · Rating 2 out of 5]

1,75/5

Książka nie niesie za sobą dużej treści, nie czuję, żeby wniosła cokolwiek do mojego życia. Mimo wszystko nie jest tragiczna, skoro przeczytałam ją tak szybko.

[Davy Buntinx · Rating 2 out of 5]

Expected a lot more than a summary of Steve Jobs' life intespersed with some fanmail.

[Adalbert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short, quick to read, not a must read for the Apple fans, but better than expected.

[Jamie · Rating 2 out of 5]

It felt like a slapped together account of emails rather than adding insight to emails and letting the correspondences speak for themselves. Immature writing.

[Mirek Jasinski · Rating 1 out of 5]

Waste of time.

[Krzyszu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Przyjemne uzupełnienie biografii Jobsa napisanej przez Isaacsona. Czy Jobs był ekscentrykiem? BYŁ, i to BEZ MAŁA! Dlaczego? Zajrzyj na jego skrzynkę pocztową.

[Chris · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh, rehashed info from other books/sites/etc. Not really worth it.