Here’s the cover of the October 17, 2011, issue of The New Yorker. Notice that they reuse the same ‘St. Peter uses an iPad’ gag as the recent Next Media Animation tribute to Steve Jobs.
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac.
Leander is a longtime technology reporter and the author of six acclaimed books about Apple, including two New York Times bestsellers: Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products and Inside Steve’s Brain, a biography of Steve Jobs.
He’s also written a top-selling biography of Apple CEO Tim Cook and authored Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod, which both won prestigious design awards. Most recently, he was co-author of Cult of Mac, 2nd Edition.
Leander has been reporting about Apple and technology for nearly 30 years.
Before founding Cult of Mac as an independent publication, Leander was news editor at Wired.com, where he was responsible for the day-to-day running of the Wired.com website. He headed up a team of six section editors, a dozen reporters and a large pool of freelancers. Together the team produced a daily digest of stories about the impact of science and technology, and won several awards, including several Webby Awards, 2X Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism and the 2010 MIN (Magazine Industry Newsletter) award for best blog, among others.
Before being promoted to news editor, Leander was Wired.com’s senior reporter, primarily covering Apple. During that time, Leander published a ton of scoops, including the first in-depth report about the development of the iPod. Leander attended almost every keynote speech and special product launch presented by Steve Jobs, including the historic launches of the iPhone and iPad. He also reported from almost every Macworld Expo in the late ’90s and early ‘2000s, including, sadly, the last shows in Boston, San Francisco and Tokyo. His reporting for Wired.com formed the basis of the first Cult of Mac book, and subsequently this website.
Before joining Wired, Leander was a senior reporter at the legendary MacWeek, the storied and long-running weekly that documented Apple and its community in the 1980s and ’90s.
Leander has written for Wired magazine (including the Issue 16.04 cover story about Steve Jobs’ leadership at Apple, entitled Evil/Genius), Scientific American, The Guardian, The Observer, The San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications.
Leander has a postgrad diploma in artificial intelligence from the University of Aberdeen, and a BSc (Hons) in experimental psychology from the University of Sussex.
He has a diploma in journalism from the UK’s National Council for the Training of Journalists.
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10 responses to “This Week’s New Yorker Cover: Steve Jobs At The Pearly Gates”
Considering he’s a Buddhist, this is kinda disrespectful.
Steve’s up there right now working on a way to come back. He’s going to come back, patent it, sell it through Apple, and it will be part of iLife.
“Reuse” is kinda harsh. That’s a pretty common meme that thousands of people have reached independently. And since it’s obviously a satirical image meant to communicate the incredible impact of Jobs’ work, I don’t see anything disrespectful.
Agreed. And as for further use, The Economist published a cartoon of god, moses and jobs together with the caption “Moses, this is Steve; he’ll be upgrading your tablets.”
So the Christian based iPad/Tablet jokes run deep and it’s hard to point at anyone copying another.
Good-by Steve I am surprised you left us so soon, we will miss you and thanks for all that you did for us. Paul Why have we lost 15 million people to cancer since President Nixon declared war on cancer and began the search for a cure in 1971? Why do we have over 200 forms of cancer but not one has a cure? Why do they say the quality of life is improved when 50% of the population has an incurable disease? Why does modern medicine say they do not know the cause of even one incurable disease? Why hasn’t modern medicine cured even one disease in over a half century while the TV ads for donations keep saying “we are so close to a cure”? Dr. Paul Blake, N.D.