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Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs (Paperback, 2014, CITIC Press Corporation)

Paperback, 513 pages

Published March 1, 2014 by CITIC Press Corporation.

ISBN:
978-7-5086-4329-8
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A Story of Reality Distortion

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Despite my not being a Steve Jobs fan, or perhaps partly because of it, I found Walter Isaacson’s bio of Jobs absorbing. In aggregate, it didn’t tell me anything new (Jobs personality, failures and successes are pretty well documented), but it comprehensively filled in a lot of detail, especially from his childhood to his early adult years, and the depiction of his illness is wrenching.

As a business study, it is illuminating, covering not just Apple, but Pixar, all the way to its merger with Disney, NeXT, and competing players like Microsoft and Google, although the history lacks some technical insight. For example, it was clear to me and I’m sure others at the time that both Microsoft and Apple had to get over the OS hump (one of my Bay Area commented, core competency-wise, there are some companies that do OSs and Apple wasn’t one of them) from their …