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Can you please mention from which author since I imagine there are more than one?

hbosch 10y ago
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is generally considered the definitive biography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_(book)
- tlow 10y ago
  Definitely not true. As a concrete example disproving your fallacious post, I refer to Mr. John Gruber who called Becoming Steve Jobs "the book about Steve Jobs that the world deserves". Johny Ives says of Isaacson's book, "My regard couldn’t be any lower."
  - statictype 10y ago
    So People involved with and around Apple didn't enjoy a book that was critical of Jobs? I too liked Becoming Steve Jobs too, but I didn't think Isacsons book was as terrible as many people made it out to be.
  - freehunter 10y ago
    No, it's 100% true. It's the book Steve Jobs had written as his official biography, so it's de facto the official biography. It doesn't matter if there is a better book, and your aggressive tone is not helping your argument.
    - SeanLuke 10y ago
      "official" and "definitive" are not synonyms.
      - truth_sentinell 10y ago
        In this case they're, because he ain't reviewing and approving another biography.
  - SiVal 10y ago
    Yeah, sure. I worked with Jobs (not for him) when he was at NeXT and I was at a closely affiliated company. I asked Jobs once in a meeting if he would ever consider moving the NeXT software onto non-NeXT hardware to give it more reach. He exploded, as was his way, and answered my question by pointing out that he drove a very expensive Porsche while my car was just a cheap econobox. That was his entire counter argument to me. Many of us had read his first biography "The Journey is the Reward" and knew that the guy thumping his chest about how his expensive car demonstrated his superiority had fathered and abandoned a daughter who had been living nearby on welfare checks that were paid for by us little people who paid taxes and drove economy cars. Talk about "my regard couldn't be any lower".... I think Isaacson's book pretty much described the guy I remember.
    - user837387 10y ago
      Thank you for this. It is definitely good, in my opinion, not to forget all his flaws. He was an asshole. But he was also a genius. Most great people are like this, imperfect in some way, and I think it is naive not to recognize that.

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson is generally considered the definitive biography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs_(book)

tlow 10y ago
Definitely not true. As a concrete example disproving your fallacious post, I refer to Mr. John Gruber who called Becoming Steve Jobs "the book about Steve Jobs that the world deserves". Johny Ives says of Isaacson's book, "My regard couldn’t be any lower."
- statictype 10y ago
  So People involved with and around Apple didn't enjoy a book that was critical of Jobs? I too liked Becoming Steve Jobs too, but I didn't think Isacsons book was as terrible as many people made it out to be.
- freehunter 10y ago
  No, it's 100% true. It's the book Steve Jobs had written as his official biography, so it's de facto the official biography. It doesn't matter if there is a better book, and your aggressive tone is not helping your argument.
  - SeanLuke 10y ago
    "official" and "definitive" are not synonyms.
    - truth_sentinell 10y ago
      In this case they're, because he ain't reviewing and approving another biography.
- SiVal 10y ago
  Yeah, sure. I worked with Jobs (not for him) when he was at NeXT and I was at a closely affiliated company. I asked Jobs once in a meeting if he would ever consider moving the NeXT software onto non-NeXT hardware to give it more reach. He exploded, as was his way, and answered my question by pointing out that he drove a very expensive Porsche while my car was just a cheap econobox. That was his entire counter argument to me. Many of us had read his first biography "The Journey is the Reward" and knew that the guy thumping his chest about how his expensive car demonstrated his superiority had fathered and abandoned a daughter who had been living nearby on welfare checks that were paid for by us little people who paid taxes and drove economy cars. Talk about "my regard couldn't be any lower".... I think Isaacson's book pretty much described the guy I remember.
  - user837387 10y ago
    Thank you for this. It is definitely good, in my opinion, not to forget all his flaws. He was an asshole. But he was also a genius. Most great people are like this, imperfect in some way, and I think it is naive not to recognize that.