Steve jobs book review guardian

A Wall Street Journal reporter tries to answer the question of whether Apple's innovation has burnt out after its founder's death.

Perhaps the funniest passage in Walter Isaacson's monumental book about Steve Jobs comes three quarters of the way through....

Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography by Walter Isaacson – review

Perhaps the funniest passage in Walter Isaacson's monumental book about Steve Jobs comes three quarters of the way through.

It is 2009 and Jobs is recovering from a liver transplant and pneumonia. At one point the pulmonologist tries to put a mask over his face when he is deeply sedated. Jobs rips it off and mumbles that he hates the design and refuses to wear it.

Walter Isaacson's biography of Apple's former CEO Steve Jobs hit the top of the bestsellers in its first week on sale in the UK.

  • Walter Isaacson's biography of Apple's former CEO Steve Jobs hit the top of the bestsellers in its first week on sale in the UK.
  • The Apple founder's daughter has the last word in a memoir detailing years of neglect and controlling behaviour.
  • Perhaps the funniest passage in Walter Isaacson's monumental book about Steve Jobs comes three quarters of the way through.
  • A genial account of the rise of Apple fails to probe the company's cultural significance, says Alex Preston.
  • Steve in question here is Mr Jobs, chief of Apple Computer.

    • Though barely able to speak, he orders them to bring five different options for the mask so that he can pick a design he likes. Even in the depths of his hallucinations, Jobs was a control-freak and a rude sod to boot. Imagine what he was like in the pink of health.

    As it happens, you don't need to: every discoverable fact about how Jobs, ahem, coaxed excellence from his co-workers is here.

    As Isaacson makes clear, Jobs wasn't a visionary or even a particularly talented electronic engineer.

    But he was a businessman of astonishing flair and focus, a marketing