A new Steve Jobs biography will be published later in this month and includes details about the close friendship between the Apple Inc. co-founder and current chief executive Tim Cook. The biography includes shocking revelations that Cook once offered to transplant part of his liver, and Jobs secretly planned to buy Yahoo.
In the new biography "Becoming Steve Jobs," Cook reveals that one day he had a blood test conducted on him to determine if he could be a possible liver donor match with Jobs. Cook discovered that both he and Jobs had a rare blood type and he could donate a part of his liver to save Jobs from pancreatic cancer, according to Mercury News.
However, when Cook made the organ donation offer to Jobs, the latter refused. Cook remembers that Jobs replied, "I'll never do that" nearly before he finished making the request.
Cook interpreted Jobs' response as his being characteristically selfless. In fact, he often felt that the tech world's general perception of Jobs as a monster was inaccurate. Cult of Mac cited Cook who believes that Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs was a "disservice" to the late Apple co-founder. He argues that it was unoriginal and centered on "small parts" of Jobs' personality.
The book also includes details about Jobs' close friendship with Bob Iger, Disney CEO. The two talked about various issues such as "buying Yahoo."
Leander Kahney, publisher of the Apple news website Cult of Mac, believes that the new biography will likely disappoint hardcore Jobs fans and part of the reason is because Jobs was "so secretive," and Apple continues to be so.
Kahney admits that the new biography includes Cook and Iger discussing Jobs in a meaningful way. However, he argues that it falls short of truly describing "how Jobs ran Apple."
One example he gives is that the iPhone is featured in just one chapter of Isaacson's new book. However, it includes no details about the issues Apple had to tackle in developing the device. Kahney said that that story "has yet to be told." In other words, no book has reached the core of the relationship between Steve Jobs and Apple.