Steve Jobs
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By Rachel Quigley
Last updated at 3:56 PM on 22nd October 2011
Out next week: Walter Isaacson's book is released on October 24
As the heart-wrenching story of how Steve Jobs' biological father tried to reach out to him while he was still alive emerged, fans of the former Apple CEO were saddened he never had the chance to meet the man who gave the world the computer visionary.
But now his biographer Walter Isaacson has revealed that the Apple CEO actually met his father several times without realising it.
When he was told of the accidental meeting, Jobs said he did not want his father to hear about it as he had done some research on him and 'did not like what he learned'.
In one of many revelations from the fascinating and complex life of the computer genius, the biographer says that several times in the late Eighties, Jobs met his father at a popular Mediterranean restaurant he then owned in Silicon Valley which he sometimes liked to eat in.
Given up for adoption as a baby, Jobs found out he had a sister after he tracked down his real mother. When he met and bonded with sister Mona Simpson, they set out to find their father.
According to Mr Isaacson, when Mona went to meet John Jandali, who was then running a coffee shop, he said to her: 'I wish you could have seen me when I was running a bigger restaurant. Everybody used to come there.
'Even Steve Jobs used to eat there. Yeah, he was a great tipper.'
On meeting President Obama
The biography also reveals that the computer visionary offered to design political ads for President Obama's 2012 campaign despite being highly critical of the administration's policies.
Jobs, notorious for his fiery temper and stubborn nature, also refused to meet the president in the fall of 2010 saying he would not meet him unless Obama personally asked him.
He also criticised the country's education system and said it was 'crippled by union work rules.
'Until the teachers; unions were broken, there was almost no hope for eduction reform.'
He told Obama that principals should be allowed to hire and fire teachers based on merit, that schools stay open until 6pm and that they be open 11 months a year.
The by-then frail Apple chief was photographed having dinner with the president and other Silicon Valley technology leaders including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at a dinner in California.
The president joined the twelve leaders from technology companies to discuss ways to work together to invest in American innovation and promote private sector job growth.
Although Jobs was not that impressed by Obama, later telling Mr Isaacson that his focus on the reasons that things can't get done 'infuriated him', he still offered to create his political ads and had talked with him on the phone a few times.
Mr Isaacson writes in the upcoming biography: 'He had made the same offer in 2008, but he'd become annoyed when Obama's strategist David Axelrod wasn't totally deferential.'
Jobs later told the author that he wanted to do for Obama what the legendary 'morning in America' ads did for Ronald Reagan.
On God and the church
The book also details how Steve Jobs was often bullied in school and stopped going to church at the age of 13.
Jobs was also against conspicuous consumption, claiming Apple employees turned into 'bizarro people' when they were made rich by their stock.
On Google
Jobs pledged to use his 'last dying breath' destroying rival Google's Android because he believed it was based on stolen iPhone technology.
Revealed in an advanced copy of the Apple co-founder's authorised biography, he branded it 'grand theft Android' and promised to spend all his company's money to wreck them.
On Bill Gates
The father-of-four said of Bill Gates: 'He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.'
He late said: 'Bill is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything, which is why I think he's more comfortable now in philanthropy than technology. He just shamelessly ripped off other people's ideas.'
The Microsoft giant was said to be fascinated by Steve Jobs but found him 'fundamentally odd' and 'weirdly flawed as a human being', and his tendency to be 'either in the mode of saying you were sh*t or trying to seduce you'.
The book, which is being published by Simon & Schuster, was originally called iSteve and was scheduled to come out in March 2012.
The release date was moved up to November, then, after Jobs' death, to this coming Monday.
