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Steve Jobs, part 2

October 23, 2011 12:10 PM

Steve Jobs was already gravely ill with cancer when he asked author Walter Isaacson to write his biography. Jobs told Isaacson to write a honest book - about his failings and his strengths. Steve Kroft reports.

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by koskesh5000 November 2, 2011 5:55 PM EDT
One of the best pieces on 60 Minutes I have ever seen. What a journey this man had. Amazing. Thank you for producing this.
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by cbs_bull October 31, 2011 9:58 AM EDT
Great job, 60 Min. You have showed a real Jobs in his short life. Jobs was a great man although he was mean to people sometimes.
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by Searcher44 October 29, 2011 3:32 PM EDT
Steve Jobs was a good visionary, and user of other talented, hard working, and technically skilled people.

It is those good technical people, not Steve Jobs, who actually did the work, designing, engineering, programming, and making the products that made Apple, and Steve Jobs, a success.

As far as Jobs, or Apple, having superior taste, style, etc.., and other companies having inferior products, that is a debatable, and always has been.
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by Camiinsky46 October 26, 2011 2:51 AM EDT
The same reasoning that made him great was the same reasoning that got him killed. Life can be so ironic sometimes.
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by trelaingeorgia October 25, 2011 5:06 PM EDT
Great story. But, I just want to say that making an adoption plan for your baby is NOT abandoning your baby. It is making a loving plan to provide for them. I was adopted as a newborn, and I have met my birthmother. I know birthmothers who have placed their babies in adoptive homes, and I have an adopted daughter. Please do not say that children that have been placed for adoption were abandoned. It makes it sound like his birthmother left him in a public restroom trash can. That's not what happened, is it?
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by Mario-500 October 24, 2011 8:05 PM EDT
Steve Croft should have not been so quick to judge Steve Jobs when he asked, "How could such a smart man do such a stupid thing?" after hearing he had surgery for pancreatic cancer nine months after being diagnosed for a malignant tumor. It is worse to hear such a thing shortly after the fellow died. Imagine being a member of his family and hearing a reporter ask such a question. News reporters and news presenters should keep their personal feelings to themselves while at work.
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by Trimax44 October 24, 2011 7:50 PM EDT
After seeing the story of Steve Jobs i must say i feel a new sense of deep respect for him now that i did not before. I think the part about his child life really hit me. It's a tough thing to grow up feeling unwanted by your mother & father. Now i wish i had more time with him when he was alive if only to learn more about the business of computers and phones. What a great lost almost as great as the lost of my sister Billie!
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by cedaredge October 24, 2011 12:22 PM EDT
Still waiting for segment #2 on Jobs. Is CBS so cheap that it can't afford any techies that can make live streaming work?
CBS...................you're pretty damn sloppy!!!
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by mfperr October 24, 2011 9:09 AM EDT
Is it just me or does Steve Jobs' picture look eerily similar to van Gogh's self-portrait? Perhaps they shared more in common than just looks.
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by radiology_doc October 24, 2011 2:07 AM EDT
It's a shame that Jobs had to pass away from his pancreatic cancer. It sounded like the radiology doctor caught it early enough that something could have been done. In any case, good for the doc for making the call -- it's definitely not an easy diagnosis to make!
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