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Jobs

Steve Jobs slashed Apple's bloated product line to four quadrants and dragged the company back from bankruptcy—90 days away from collapse—to reshape computing, animation, and how we stare through screens.

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Chapters

17 total
  1. 01Prologue
  2. 02Chapter One - The Adopted Spark
  3. 03Chapter Two - Steve and Woz
  4. 04Chapter Three - The Apple I and the Bite of Myth
  5. 05Chapter Four - The Cult of Jobs
  6. 06Chapter Five - The Macintosh and the War of Interface
  7. 07Chapter Six - NeXT and the Black Box
  8. 08Chapter Seven - Pixar: The Secret Legacy
  9. 09Chapter Eight - Return of the King
  10. 10Chapter Nine - The Design Revolution
  11. 11Chapter Ten - The Ecosystem Trap
  12. 12Chapter Eleven - The iPhone Cometh
  13. 13Chapter Twelve - Reality Distortion Field
  14. 14Chapter Thirteen - The Second Exodus
  15. 15Chapter Fourteen - The Cult of Apple
  16. 16Chapter Fifteen - The Ghost in the Glass
  17. 17One More Thing...
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Dedications, notices, acknowledgments, author notes, and short passages from this book.

Jobs

Jobs
The Man Behind the Glass
by James Johnson

Dedication

To everyone who ever stared through the screen and wondered who was staring back.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


TO THE THINKERS, tinkerers, dropouts, and designers who saw things not as they were, but as they could be.

To those who questioned the default.

And to the strange man in the black turtleneck, thanks for shaking the snow globe.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR


JJ IS A guy with an iPhone, a keyboard, and a strange compulsion to write books about the people who rewired the modern world.

He does not wear turtlenecks.
But he respects the hell out of someone who made that work.

This is one of many entries in a rapidly growing library of biographies aimed at decoding the minds that built the systems we now live inside.

You can usually find him near Wi-Fi.

COPYRIGHT


© 2025 JAMES JOHNSON All rights reserved.
This book is an independent work of biography and analysis and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple Inc. or the estate of Steve Jobs. All trademarks and product names remain the property of their respective owners.

This book may be quoted, annotated, or thrown across the room, but please don’t pretend you wrote it.
That’s what he would’ve done.

Haha.