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I'm confused...
Am I missing something here??
EDIT: Yup confirmed for not a big deal lol.
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United States5162 Posts
I don't see the big deal.
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I'm sorry, but I can't seem to tell what the problem is? Is recropping it such a big deal?
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My copy just arrived 10 minutes ago. This will be the 1st book I read in ~2 years.
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That's some sneaky marketing right there 
Seems weird that they had the original photograph to change. I guess because the font is different they had to have it. I'm sure Steve wouldn't be too upset. He is of course dead...
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thedeadhaji
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On October 25 2011 08:12 Megaliskuu wrote:
I'm confused...part of his hand gets croped off and its defacing it?
Am I missing something here...
Alterations include the cropping change, font type change, font size change, background color change, addition of icons, and addition of a "cover strip" (shown below) with superfluous headlines that read like an advertisement.
![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512Hz1yixsL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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EXTREMELY small deal. This is like that Totalbiscuit "protest" that went on a while ago.
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thedeadhaji
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Added image with "cover strip" to op.
To those of you who claim that this is just a small detail that doesn't matter - have you forgotten that the very subject of this book is a guy who was incredibly anal about the most minute of details? This book is his (and the cover is the only part that Jobs had any influence on), and this Japanese publisher completely shat on him.
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That son of a bitch! Sorry Haji, I don't really care that much for a picture on the top of a biography. You could say it looks less like the own guy's work, but I'm more interested in what the pages in the book says than the actual cover.
Only thing I don't like is the superfluous headlines as they are way to common when trying to sell terrible books.
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who really cares.
if that would be seen as an offense by steve jobs, then steve jobs was lamer than I always thought he was.
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its more busy and looks like a magazine but
really defacing? Also i don't see how this will increase sales but to me if something increases sales then that is actually the superior product :|
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This reminds me of those games in magazines where it says spot the difference, and it's really hard to find any unless you look hard.
Yes they changed a little bit, but you make it out that they completely destroyed and disrespected the book, it's not a big deal.... really stupid post.
Edit : I can't believe I just read, this redesign does against everything Steve Jobs stood for, you must be joking right....?
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thedeadhaji
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On October 25 2011 08:22 askTeivospy wrote:
its more busy and looks like a magazine but
really defacing? Also i don't see how this will increase sales but to me if something increases sales then that is actually the superior product :|
That's perfectly reasonable, as the objective sets the means by which it should be achieved (and we can surely have a difference of opinion).
My beef with this is that the "redesign" goes against everything Apple and Steve Jobs stood for and fought for, whether you buy into their dogma or not. If there is one occasion where others should bend to their will, for me, this was it.
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Adding a cover strip is defacement? Please. Would it be "defacement" if Barnes & Noble slapped a 25% off sticker on the cover? Jobs doesn't need 100% creative control over every piece of media that has anything to do with him.
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-_- steve jobs sucked and I blame him for the piece of shit that windows 8 looks like it is going to be. I dunno how you can say he didn't focus on profit since everything apple has is about 3-5x the price it should be, at least for computers. Maybe you can argue they didn't sacrifice quality to do that, but I would say that depends on your definition of quality. That 2gb macbook they sold for 1k around a year ago (dunno if they updated it) was clearly a piece of shit and functioned on par with a netbook.
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Yeah, it is slightly different and that is kind of annoying, but seriously, this happens ALL THE TIME in every country where they alter things to fit marketing strats.
I hate thie "Steve Job" deification since his death where every little thing that happens Apple people take as a sign of either his brilliance or a great disrespect.
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Making anything related to Jobs less minimalistic (wow, just hit me what a paradox those two words together are) is a shame indeed.
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On October 25 2011 08:08 thedeadhaji wrote:
If maximizing profits meant a less perfect product, Jobs would choose less profits every time. In this very biography, he recalls how Microsoft has deliberately sacrificed product quality for a superior business model. Apple is not Microsoft, and Steve Jobs is not Bill Gates
Then why is apple's shit so ridiculously overpriced?
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