Steve Jobs's book, his biography as it should have been told

Who was Steve Jobs? Many of you who know his name will immediately relate him to the position of CEO of Apple until his death in October 2011. Many of you think that he was a kind of angel and even savior who took Apple to the top when it was close to bankruptcy. Everything you know is partly true. Part. For it to be totally true, it is necessary balance the scales also adding the darker information of the character who knew how to imagine the future. That is exactly what you can read in "The Steve Jobs Book", a book that, as we read on the cover, shows the "lights and shadows of a genius«.

To give you an idea of ​​what Jobs was like, something that is collected in this book and that is one of the points that makes it interesting, the first thing SJ did was to scam his friend and colleague Wozniak. As you all know, and if I don't tell you, Jobs was the visible head of Apple's business in the beginning, iWoz being the genius who did "magic" by imagining and creating devices. When Jobs was working at Atari, they asked him for a game that would attract attention, he told Wozniak about it, and the Pole was the one who created it. They paid Jobs a certain amount and only gave iWoz, the actual creator, a near residual XNUMX%.

I have commented on the above to give you an idea of ​​how it can be a person who has achieved so much in the life. If you are capable of betraying your friends, what could you not do? Jobs endorsed Picasso's phrase «good artists create; great artists steal«, Something that would also take care of to be able to use a user interface controlled with a mouse (mouse). He asked Xerox to show him what they were working on and took that to his computer. I guess there are people who are finding out about these things here and now.

It is clear that not everything related to Steve Jobs was bad, far from it. I have put the examples to balance a scale that in most cases falls on the positive side of the former CEO of Apple with almost no weight on the negative side. And also, of course, to talk about the biography created by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli. They say it is «The definitive biography of Apple's genius" because it is not limited to praising the characterIt is objective and also controversial, something that many other biographies are not that either write about the good or the bad, but do not have a balance between the two.

Both authors have important information to contribute to this biography. Schlender was in contact with Jobs for 25 years and was a confidant of the former CEO of Apple, from what he knows information that we only now have available. On the other hand, Tetzeli is in charge of writing about the youth of an ambitious, rebellious and opportunistic character who has evolved over the years.

If with everything explained you have been left wanting to know everything that Schlender and Tetzeli have to tell us, you can buy "The Steve Jobs Book" on Amazon for price of 7,59 €. It is also available in hardcover for a price of € 18,53.