Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography

by Karen Blumenthal

was five, his father, Paul, was transferred to Palo Alto, about forty-five minutes south of San Francisco. After serving in the Coast Guard during World War II, Paul had worked as a machinist and used-car salesman, and now was working for a finance company collecting bad debts. In his free time, he fixed up used

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hundred songs, and later a “Nano.” By mid-2006, just a little more than a year later, total sales of iPods would reach 58 million units. More significantly, music and iPod sales would now make up about half of Apple’s total sales. And there was more to come. Writing in Fortune in 2001, longtime Jobs chronicler Brent Schlender predicted that “you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to imagine how Apple might