Steve Jobs
Looks like John Gruber got around to finishing the Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs Biography. His conclusion is spot on:
It’s not just that Isaacson was wrong about something; it’s that he was wrong about the most important thing in Jobs’s career. There’s a decades-long story arc about the software system started at NeXT that Isaacson completely misses.
Sad that the one guy who gets to talk to Steve Jobs for history turns out to be so totally technologically ignorant that he misses the entire point of the man’s career.
I agree with Gruber that Isaacson gets the personal part of Steve Job’s life but he misses the opportunity to correctly question Steve Jobs about his work because he just doesn’t get it.
If Isaacson has any duty to history, he needs to make his notes and tapes available so that someone who actually knows something about technology can write the story of why Steve Jobs brought Apple back from the dead.
