iCon
My good friend Simon bought me this book about the rise and fall, and rise again, of Steve Jobs last year as a birthday gift (thanks Simon!)
I started off reading the Ipod chapters, and its only lately that I backtracked to the earlier chapters about Steve's years in Apple. What I read brought back a lot of memories about how computers used to quicken my pulse and how I spent all my pocket money buying up computer magazines.
A lot of the stuff that we take for granted now did not exist in those days, and Steve, despite his flaws made the computer industry a better place by his sheer vision and energy.
However, till today I never owned an Apple product (althogh I did use the Mac a lot during my uni days). Maybe the time will come one day when I go for an Ipod.
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Ipod... is one of the items on my shopping list too :P
wow i got to read the book sometime. he's got to be one of the most influential ppl in the planet, with pixar and apple.
Saw iCon in KLIA the other day... didn't buy... See if can find in Kino. But I think it will end up collecting dust on my book-shelf. No time to read even one page a day now... sob.
Hey Ling!
When was your birthday again?
Did we miss anything?
B'day was last year :P
I read a few chapters and stopped, picked it up again recently.
Simon, I'll pass the book to you one of these days. Forestfyre, your turn after that, yah? ;)
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