Biographies of Steve Jobs

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination.Steve Jobs knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. Steve Jobs built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. AndSteve Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple’s hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. About the Author Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, has been chairman of CNN and the managing editor of Time magazine. He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and of Kissinger: A Biography, and the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and daughter. Dylan Baker's films include Happiness, Along Came A Spider, and 13 Days. He starred on the TV series Feds and Murder One. Mr. Baker's theater credits include La Bete (Tony & Drama Desk nominations), Eastern Standard (Theatre World Award), and Not About Heroes (Obie Award). Read More......

Kindle Fire's the Cheapest Tablet

Amazon recently launched Kindle Fire tablets are sold at amazing prices cheap, only 199 U.S. dollars. Many do not think the price of a tablet can be as cheap as Amazon's Kindle and considers that the presence of Fire will definitely interfere with "convenience" market dominated tablet costs about 500 dollars.

The question then is, what devices will be singed and wiped out by the Fire Kindle? Is iPad that dominate 80 percent of the tablet market in America today? Samsung Galaxy Color Tab and Nook from Barnes & Noble began to grow that market? Or players "small" like a BlackBerry Playbook, HTC, and other tablets?
Kindle Fire tablet with a 7-inch and reinforced by the content ecosystem Amazon price of 199 U.S. dollars when compared iPad might like oranges and apples. However, he also could be a killer iPad.

Specification does not have a Kindle Fire the camera, only 8 GB capacity, no phones and GPS options may lose much with the Apple iPad. But in difficult times like today, people would not care all the advantages iPad.

Kindle Fire managed to capture the niche market who want a cheap tablet. In addition, Kindle Fire also has the support of Amazon Prime content that provide video content. In addition to working with 20th Century Fox, which could provide more content and access to the Netflix movies that is not restricted.
What about the Kindle vs. Fire Nook Color? In recent times, Nook Color may dominate at a price of 249 U.S. dollars. But now with the Kindle Fire, it is clear from the price of the Color Nook has lost. Thus, there is much potential for Nook Color to lose the war with the Kindle Fire.

To survive, Nook Color should be able to compete in terms of price. Price Nook Touch may need to be cut 10 dollars and Nook Color which will be launched next foreseeable future need to have competitive prices, maximum of 229 U.S. dollars, or just a difference of 20 U.S. dollars from the Kindle Fire.
Nook Color in services have many drawbacks compared to Kindle Fire. First, the application stores Nook Color is growing, but has not approached the completeness of the Android application store in the Kindle Fire. In addition, Nook Color also has no video content, books, or magazines are complete in the Kindle Fire.

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