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July 22, 2012 6:50 PM

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Steve Jobs: Family photo album

By: Overtime Staff
Topics: Overtime Original

College student Reed Jobs decided to study oncology after seeing his father, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, battle cancer. Reed's younger sister Eve is a great horseback rider, and their sister Erin has her father's great sense for design. And the eldest, Lisa, who was estranged from her father when she was young, became very close with him in recent years.

These are some of the insights that Jobs' biographer Walter Isaacson shared with 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft as the two browsed through some Jobs family photos-- on an iPad, of course.

The photos show a side of Jobs that few knew: the family man on vacation, at home, on his wedding day, with his father when Jobs was a baby.

Complete coverage: Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011

Here on Overtime, we take a look at these Jobs family photos while Steve Kroft tells producer David Rubin about seeing these images and hearing the family stories: "I didn't know anything about the way he lived. And it speaks to the secrecy and the mysterious nature of this persona that Jobs managed to create-- the secrecy both about his business operations and especially the secrecy about his family life, private life."

In 1991, Steve Jobs married Laurene Powell, then an investment banker. Jobs spoke about meeting and marrying Laurene with Isaacson, who told us: "They went out off and on for a year. As usual, any relationship with Jobs can be somewhat tumultuous. But he said to me, 'It was tough, but you eventually realize you've met the person, you know, who you're right to live with.' "

Laurene and Steve had three children: Reed, Eve, and Erin. Jobs' eldest child, Lisa, was born in 1978 to Jobs and then-girlfriend Chrisann Brennan. For many years Jobs refused to acknowledge Lisa as his child, but by the time she was in high school, Lisa was living with Steve and Laurene.

When Jobs became ill, his children wanted time with Isaacson to speak about their father. Isaacson recalls talking with Jobs' son: "Reed just adores his father. When I was first working on the book, he came to see me and said, 'Let's take a walk.' Very much like his father would have done. And he says, 'I know you're gonna hear a lot of stories of my dad being tough and brutal to people. But I want you to know that he really cares about the products and he wasn't just out to make money or to be a great businessman.' "

Also on 60 Minutes Overtime this week - listen to Steve Jobs' opinion on high-tech rivals Bill Gates, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg.

And click here to see Steve Kroft's two-part 60 Minutes piece "Steve Jobs," produced by Graham Messick.

Disclosure: Walter Isaacson's biography "Steve Jobs" is published by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS corporation.

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by shelliseashells July 20, 2012 12:56 AM EDT

thanks for the book and the nighttime news, but it seems to be misplaced. what about woz?

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by hypnotoad72 October 5, 2012 12:37 PM EDT: The Woz is cool...


by skalscheur July 17, 2012 10:51 PM EDT: I would point out that Steve Jobs was not abandoned by his mother; she was a single mom who found herself pregnant as a graduate student in the 50s and who had a father who threatened to disown her if she married the father of her child. But as life goes when Steve Jobs' mother's father died about a year after she gave up her son for adoption in California (she was a grad student at the Univ of Wisconsin and was originally from Green Bay) she did marry the man who was the biological father of Steve Jobs and they had Mona Simpson,but the marriage did not last. So I would not characterize Steve Jobs as being abandoned by his mother; quite the contrary in fact.; Reply to this comment


by kimbakat--2008 April 5, 2012 12:56 PM EDT: Re: commercial..Hey Phil!

a pill is not going to solve the joint problem. But cutting out sugar and processed foods will most likely reduce the issue.; Reply to this comment

by barbara_renee October 24, 2011 2:24 PM EDT

RE Steve's "brutal" management style, " crude, rude etc... " What (most) people fail to realize is very simple: it is just as hard to reveal a non-white washed truth to someone else as it is for that person accepting or understanding that truth or their imperfections. How many people actually realize that only a true friend will tell you your own failings. Only a person who uniquely cares about something will be brutally truthful about it. Steve knows he is not perfect, he knew he was not kind, but he took that stand because he believed in what he was doing and was attempting to "raise the high water mark" for all of those he worked with and encountered. You can't fault someone for that. Raising the water level, does not happen when everyone tells each other it's all fine just the way it is... We know we can all do nothing and it will be "good enough"... The difference that sets people apart are making changes, you can't make change when you can't see something greater, basically when your below or under water, that is always more difficult. Bringing others above the water is what life savers do. It's our responsibility as humans and brothers and sisters to bring up the water mark. Only those who can't see further than their nose feel insulted or violated by such efforts by others. -BBC

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by hypnotoad72 October 5, 2012 12:36 PM EDT: That depends.

Constructive criticism is one thing.

Being an arrogant, exploitative jerk is another.


by bogsed October 24, 2011 11:04 AM EDT: I appreciated the informational interview with Mr. Job's biographer, Walter Isaacson and Steve Kroft. But I did resent Mr. Kroft saying that for such a brilliant man Steve Jobs made a "stupid" decision regarding his choice to not immediatly have the surgery for his cancer. The man had a right, as any one of us does and wants, to have control over his body and health and welfare, and to explore other options. I'm quite sure Mr. Jobs was smart enough to have researched and weighed the possible outcomes and consequences of each option and maybe for him just the longest life wasn't as attractive an option as the quality of life and following his own path. Modern medecine, while spectacularly wonderful, is not perfect. We, and Mr. Jobs, all know this. I believe he had a right to his privacy and to live his life as he saw fit. None of us know what went into his medical decisions, and all of ours are rich with many inputs and concerns. Surely he made informed choices that he believed right for him and his family. It is sometimes all too easy to second guess someone who is no longer here to defend himself, especially public figures.; Reply to this comment


by lindy512 October 24, 2011 9:47 AM EDT: His Mother? Surely she was a special person. It takes a lot of work to raise a child. Why isn't there more about her?; Reply to this comment

by proeliumfessus October 24, 2011 12:38 AM EDT

Seriuosly- enough with all the Jobs coverage.

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by Annedelf October 30, 2011 10:53 PM EDT: Many would not agree with you; seriously.


by hypnotoad72 October 5, 2012 12:34 PM EDT: I would agree.

The man's myth is being propped up while the reality is being shrouded. That is not morally or ethically right.

SERIOUSLY.

Yes, he was a human but as CEO and marketer he earned little respect.

The man was a leech, right back to his college days.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3001441/do-steve-jobs-did-dont-follow-your-passion

Marketers love to play mind games and be celebrated as somehow being better - even when they don't deserve to be celebrated.

He stole from Android, while claiming Android stole from Apple. Which is ironic, as if Xerox had won its lawsuit over Apple stealing from Xerox... Xerox merely made the mistake of not being the original patent thug... assuming the laws were as loose then as they are now... never mind this person admitting in front of a camera, gleefully saying how the best artists steal (e.g. he admitted his own guilt)... yeah, he hated Android and any other competition, but his hypocrisy was deplorable.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/214268/20110915/top-10-android-features-ios-5-impersonated-apple-iphone-5-ipad-ipad-2-iphone-3gs-iphone-4-ipod-touch.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU

http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/134422/steve-jobs-vowed-to-destroy-google-android-called-it-a-stolen-product/120

The same company patented the digital version of a slide lock for crying out loud. Apple, in patenting the work someone else created and then made an analogue of, is who is stealing. Sorry.

http://www.styleite.com/media/steve-jobs-photo-shoots/

http://www.cultofmac.com/2613/steve-jobs-still-parking-in-handicapped-spaces-the-pictures/

http://thednetworks.com/2011/10/06/steve-was-employee-zero-used-to-park-his-mercedes-in-handicapped-parking-and-some-more-less-know-facts-about-steve-jobs/

I could cite a zillion sources but most people know the man was an insecure, childish diva who exploited everyone he could. Look up the issues at Foxconn for more... but, hey, Foxconn helped him go from a 40% profit margin to 60% or more. Why should he care?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/04/apple-dc-lobbying-efforts-get-fierce_n_818874.html
(and given the corporate welfare they take, since our country can't afford anything anymore, but before I digress...)

http://www.fastcompany.com/3001441/do-steve-jobs-did-dont-follow-your-passion
(the leeching goes back to his college days... "stay hungry" and "stay thirsty"? Not for him, and at others' expense. As usual.)

He's no hero.

To anybody.

He was just another selfish corporate leech, and a massively whiny and entitled one at that. Even during his college days...


by Chichuna October 24, 2011 12:20 AM EDT: To the Jobs family, be strong, its very hard to realize that someone you love has gone,Steve was a force of nature, and the world is better off for his being here. You have each other, I wish you all long and happy lives.; Reply to this comment

by Dr_Keenan October 23, 2011 11:18 PM EDT

This was for the most part a well done segment.

HOWEVER ... the reporters kept saying, over and over and over again, that Steve Jobs was "abandoned" by his birth mother. This is absolutely false - she chose the adoptive couple and they raised him in a very loving home.

Your false reporting supports the negative stigma and media bias towards adoption, never emphasizing it's strengths and loving outcomes. It's continues to victimize adoptees, birthparents and adoptive families everywhere.

Noreen Keenan, Ph.D.

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by lorjon1 October 24, 2011 12:43 AM EDT: Re the term "abandonment" -- it is only natural that adopted children may suffer from feelings of abandonment due to the innate biological connection between birth mother and child. No one is implying here that Steve Jobs was not loved and indeed raised in a very loving home, thankfully. More so, his adoptive parents had a sensitive response to his natural query about being put up for adoption in saying to him that he was "chosen". There is no "false reporting" here. In fact, it represents the reality of the situation. Putting your own child up for adoption cannot but inspire feelings of abandonment in the child as well as feelings of loss in the birth parent which can last a lifetime. And whatever you wish to say, his mother may have chosen the adoptive couple and luckily they turned out to be good parents (in this case) but she also made the choice to give her son up which only she can be accountable for. Steve Jobs luckily did not see himself as a victim.


by jimhass October 25, 2011 1:51 AM EDT: He felt abandoned. That is the fear of every adoptive child. "Your real mother didn't love you!" That's what you fear to hear from other children. The Jobses knew how to handle a crying little boy, to tell him he was "chosen." That was a very formative moment. Of course abandonment in itself is an emotional reality when a parent doesn't respond to you in the ways you need. It's very lucky for Steve that his adoptive parents gave him love.

The real truth about the adoption is that the mother insisted to give him to university grads. At the last moment, the university grads backed out. The high school grads wanted him, and had to convince the mother that they'd send the kid to college before she grudgingly accepted them


by hypnotoad72 October 5, 2012 12:35 PM EDT: Lots of people are or feel abandoned.

It makes some of his business decisions a bit more interesting, if a correlation exists...

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