Gruber linked to a piece earlier today, which led me to another excerpt from Rick Tetzeli’s and Brent Schlender’s upcoming book Becoming Steve Jobs:
Eight weeks after Steve told Cook he was making him CEO, things took a sudden turn for the worse. “I watched a movie with him the Friday before he passed away,” Cook remembers. “We watched Remember the Titans [a sentimental football story about an underdog]. I was so surprised he wanted to watch that movie. I was like, ‘Are you sure?’ Steve was not interested in sports at all. And we watched and we talked about a number of things and I left thinking that he was pretty happy. And then all of a sudden things went to hell that weekend.”
This is the caliber of content I want to read about Steve Jobs (and Apple on the whole).[1]
For the definitive assault on Isaacson’s biography, listen to this (and this) for an explainer as to why the Issacson’s biography completely missed the mark, at least as far as Apple fans are concerned. ↩