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The Launch: Interviews with John Huey, Nicholas Negroponte. Lev Grossman, “Apple’s New Calling,”

Time, Jan. 22, 2007; Steve Jobs, speech, Macworld, Jan. 9, 2007; John Markoff, “Apple Introduces Innovative Cellphone,” New York Times, Jan. 10, 2007; John Heilemann, “Steve Jobs in a Box,” New York, June 17, 2007; Janko Roettgers, “Alan Kay: With the Tablet, Apple Will Rule the World,” GigaOM, Jan. 26, 2010.

CHAPTER 37: ROUND TWO

The Battles of 2008: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Kathryn Smith, Bill Campbell, Art Levinson, Al Gore, John Huey, Andy Serwer, Laurene Powell, Doug Morris, Jimmy Iovine. Peter Elkind, “The Trouble with Steve Jobs,” Fortune, Mar. 5, 2008; Joe Nocera,

“Apple’s Culture of Secrecy,” New York Times, July 26, 2008; Steve Jobs, letter to the Apple community, Jan. 5

and Jan. 14, 2009; Doron Levin, “Steve Jobs Went to Switzerland in Search of Cancer Treatment,”

Fortune.com, Jan. 18, 2011; Yukari Kanea and Joann Lublin, “On Apple’s Board, Fewer Independent Voices,”

Wall Street Journal, Mar. 24, 2010; Micki Maynard (Micheline Maynard), Twitter post, 2:45 p.m., Jan. 18, 2011; Ryan Chittum, “The Dead Source Who Keeps on Giving,” Columbia Journalism Review, Jan. 18, 2011.

Memphis: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell, George Riley, Kristina Kiehl, Kathryn Smith.

John Lauerman and Connie Guglielmo, “Jobs Liver Transplant,” Bloomberg, Aug. 21, 2009.

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Return: Interviews with Steve Jobs, George Riley, Tim Cook, Jony Ive, Brian Roberts, Andy Hertzfeld.

CHAPTER 38: THE iPAD

You Say You Want a Revolution: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller, Tim Cook, Jony Ive, Tony Fadell, Paul Otellini. All Things Digital conference, May 30, 2003.

The Launch, January 2010: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Daniel Kottke. Brent Schlender, “Bill Gates Joins the iPad Army of Critics,” bnet.com, Feb. 10, 2010; Steve Jobs, keynote address in San Francisco, Jan. 27, 2010; Nick Summers, “Instant Apple iPad Reaction,”

Newsweek.com, Jan. 27, 2010; Adam Frucci, “Eight Things That Suck about the iPad” Gizmodo, Jan. 27, 2010; Lev Grossman, “Do We Need the iPad?” Time, Apr. 1, 2010; Daniel Lyons, “Think Really Different,”

Newsweek, Mar. 26, 2010; Techmate debate, Fortune, Apr. 12, 2010; Eric Laningan, “Wozniak on the iPad”

TwiT TV, Apr. 5, 2010; Michael Shear, “At White House, a New Question: What’s on Your iPad?” Washington Post, June 7, 2010; Michael Noer, “The Stable Boy and the iPad,” Forbes.com, Sept. 8, 2010.

Advertising: Interviews with Steve Jobs, James Vincent, Lee Clow.

Apps: Interviews with Art Levinson, Phil Schiller, Steve Jobs, John Doerr.

Publishing and Journalism: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Jeff Bewkes, Rick Stengel, Andy Serwer, Josh Quittner, Rupert Murdoch. Ken Auletta, “Publish or Perish,” New Yorker, Apr. 26, 2010; Ryan Tate, “The Price of Crossing Steve Jobs,” Gawker, Sept. 30, 2010.

CHAPTER 39: NEW BATTLES

Google: Open versus Closed: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Bill Campbell, Eric Schmidt, John Doerr, Tim Cook, Bill Gates. John Abell, “Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra Is ‘Bullshit,’” Wired, Jan. 30, 2010; Brad

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Stone and Miguel Helft, “A Battle for the Future Is Getting Personal,” New York Times, March 14, 2010.

Flash, the App Store, and Control: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Bill Campbell, Tom Friedman, Art Levinson, Al Gore. Leander Kahney, “What Made Apple Freeze Out Adobe?” Wired, July 2010; Jean-Louis Gassée,

“The Adobe-Apple Flame War,” Monday Note, Apr. 11, 2010; Steve Jobs, “Thoughts on Flash,” Apple.com, Apr.

29, 2010; Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, Steve Jobs interview, All Things Digital conference, June 1, 2010; Robert X. Cringely (pseudonym), “Steve Jobs: Savior or Tyrant?” InfoWorld, Apr. 21, 2010; Ryan Tate, “Steve Jobs Offers World ‘Freedom from Porn,’” Valleywag, May 15, 2010; JR Raphael, “I Want Porn,”

esarcasm.com, Apr. 20, 2010; Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, Apr. 28, 2010.

Antennagate:Design versus Engineering: Interviews with Tony Fadell, Jony Ive, Steve Jobs, Art Levinson, Tim Cook, Regis McKenna, Bill Campbell, James Vincent. Mark Gikas, “Why Consumer Reports Can’t Recommend the iPhone4,” Consumer Reports, July 12, 2010; Michael Wolff, “Is There Anything That Can Trip Up Steve Jobs?” newser.com and vanityfair.com, July 19, 2010; Scott Adams, “High Ground Maneuver,” dilbert.com, July 19, 2010.

Here Comes the Sun: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Eddy Cue, James Vincent.

CHAPTER 40: TO INFINITY

The iPad 2: Interviews with Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell. Steve Jobs, speech, iPad 2

launch event, Mar. 2, 2011.

iCloud: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Eddy Cue.

Steve Jobs, keynote address, Worldwide Developers Conference, June 6, 2011; Walt Mossberg, “Apple’s Mobile Me Is Far Too Flawed to Be Reliable,” Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2008; Adam Lashinsky, “Inside

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Apple,” Fortune, May 23, 2011; Richard Waters, “Apple Races to Keep Users Firmly Wrapped in Its Cloud,”

Financial Times, June 9, 2011.

A New Campus: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ann Bowers. Steve Jobs, appearance before the Cupertino City Council, June 7, 2011.

CHAPTER 41: ROUND THREE

Family Ties: Interviews with Laurene Powell, Erin Jobs, Steve Jobs, Kathryn Smith, Jennifer Egan. Email from Steve Jobs, June 8, 2010, 4:55 p.m.; Tina Redse to Steve Jobs, July 20, 2010, and Feb. 6, 2011.

President Obama: Interviews with David Axelrod, Steve Jobs, John Doerr, Laurene Powell, Valerie Jarrett, Eric Schmidt, Austan Goolsbee.

Third Medical Leave, 2011: Interviews with Kathryn Smith, Steve Jobs, Larry Brilliant.

Visitors: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mike Slade.

CHAPTER 42: LEGACY

Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It (Yale, 2008), 2; Cory Doctorow, “Why I Won’t Buy an iPad,” Boing Boing, Apr. 2, 2010.

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INDEX

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