I imagine the author had to pull a lot strings to get the blessings from Jobs to write this book. One of those strings might include the title "ISteve". Although not the best name, most likely willing sacrifice it to be able to write a book about skinning man himself.
With this being said, I wonder how much actual writing he's done (article stayed release for early '12, I don't know the turn around time for authors and publishers), and how much has been 'approved' by Steve. We might see things many things change before its published.
This interesting to me. I'm a high school senior, and when applying to colleges many admissions departments told me that since I have been home schooled my entire life I don't have a good chance of getting. One college even told me point blank that I shouldn't even attempt to apply.
I was baffled as to why. I have good grades, above average SAT scores, a solid academic foundation(I believe). On top of that I've been working at a software company for the past year, founded multiple robotics teams in my area, and I'm now working on starting my own company.
Enough with the rant. The way I see it, if the college told me they weren't interested in me since I've been home schooled they're probably not worth my time to even apply.
I honestly don't see what the problem here is. I see this kind of thing happen all the time, and no one only makes a big deal out of it. You can say the same thing with Google's People Finder site...it was just created to show people that Google "cared".
I think that sometimes people blow small things like this out of proportion for no real reason.
PS. I will probably be down-voted for this. So be it.
If you look at the definition of an engineer:
An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics, economics and ingenuity to develop solutions to meet economic and societal needs. -- wikipedia
I think programmers easily fall under that category. Think about the issue programmers runs into when developing say a web app. You have scaling issues, database issues, system problems, and general limitations of the programming language you are using...solving all these problems often follows the same approach an engineer works through.
Almost think it would have been more useful just to give him a list of blogs(and twitter users) to keep up with. This will give him a sense of the startup community, and allows him to keep up with services he can look into using under his own will.
With this being said, I wonder how much actual writing he's done (article stayed release for early '12, I don't know the turn around time for authors and publishers), and how much has been 'approved' by Steve. We might see things many things change before its published.