I have read several biographies of Steve Jobs. I really enjoyed this one and I thought it was well-written. I recommend this book - it is a graphic biography which I have never seen before.

Amazing book, so well put together, really detailed and interesting, I learned lots of new things! Perfect coffee table book or gift.

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A remarkable, well written book about Jobs' life and work! Would definitely recommend reading it! Thanks for the opportunity!

I have been Apple obsessed since my first iPod, and have always been fascinated with Steve Jobs and the company as a whole. I've read several other biographies about Jobs, as well as watched quite a few documentaries, and I feel familiar with Steve Jobs and the legend of Apple. Despite my previous knowledge, I still enjoyed reading this book. Straightforward and easy-to-read, this biography held nuggets of information that I did not know before, while the photographs sprinkled throughout give you a wonderful visual journey into Steve Jobs, the man.

There is no denying his genius when it came to perfection in a product, despite how you might feel about him as a person. He gave all of himself into his company, which is why you still can't hear Apple without thinking of Steve Jobs, despite it been seven years since he passed away from pancreatic cancer.

Though I love learning about Apple's rollercoaster of successes and failures, I was hoping this biography would delve more into his personal life, but it gave more focus on Apple, with Jobs' personal life being more of a side note, though you do find out about his more 'hippy' lifestyle, hot temper, and arrogant attitude.

If you've never read anything about Apple or Steve Jobs, this would be a wonderful biography to start with! The flow and the photographs win you over and the information contained within the pages, including incredibly detailed statistics about various Apple products, is enough to give you a rich backstory into Steve Jobs and Apple. Highly recommend!

Angereichert mit Fotos, Grafiken, Karten etc, wird dieses Buch zu einer sehr kurzweiligen Lektüre. Die besten sterben zu früh und in diesem Falle leider auch vermeidbar früh. Aber so war Steve Jobs eben - jemand, der immer nach seinem eigenen Kopf gelebt hat.

I read Walter Issacson's biography of Steve Jobs when it came out and wondered whether this book would be worth my time reading. I'm glad I chose to read it, because it provided some interesting tidbits of information about Jobs that I hadn't known. I especially enjoyed the photos in the book.

This is an interesting read.
I learned a few things about Mr.Jobs that I had not known previously, such as his connection with Pixar and Disney. Or his wealth...far more than I imagined.
I did not learn as much about the man as I had hoped for. I did learn a whole lot about his "Apple" time, and a little about his eating habits {ODD}.
This book feels like all the info available on Mr. Jobs was culled from various sources and then put in book order and I had hoped for actual interviews with people close to him that could shed light on what he was like as a human being. This book like so many others, once again mentions his stubbornness or his brilliance, but not much on his day to day. Told some about his death and the praise from contemporaries, but nothing about his funeral or his will. So it feels a little incomplete.
Also, I don't know why, but the Kindle version I downloaded left a lot to be desired when it came to the formatting. I often had to go a page or two ahead to find the end of the sentence I was reading because of number quotes or pictures.
Still, if you are an "APPLE" fan, this is a pretty good compilation of material in regard to the progression of Steve Jobs/ APPLE.

4* Reading this leaves me in a quandary: I don't like the man Steve Jobs is portrayed as, but I can't help but admire his genius.

This is well-written and doesn't pull any punches. I'd not bothered reading about this genius until he died, and then it was only what I found online. I was interested to find out more, and I have to say that I'm more than a little disillusioned with SJ as a man, as a human being, especially given his own birth circumstances, but utterly impressed with his genius. He comes across as a lot selfish, a lot without feelings, and yes, he was a businessman ahead of his time, given that he was so cold and callous in business from barely out of his teens.

It was interesting to see how many relationships and friendships he sacrificed and how cutthroat he seemed, interspersed with thoughts such as his belief that he had to achieve his life's work young, almost as if he knew he wouldn't live until old age.

A good read, but not a goody goody one. Nope, this is warts and all.

ARC courtesy of Quarto Publishing Group, White Lion Publishing, and NetGalley, for my reading pleasure.

Ok so just finished reading this book and I have to say it's pretty concise biography of Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson however will remain the definitive biography of Jobs. But if you are looking for something that is 1/3rd the length of Issacson's book, then this is the book you might want to pick up. It's an easy read with scattered photos here and there. Also the book is punctuated with many interesting facts and figures that keeps it interesting. The books lacks depth unlike Issacson's book but that can be good thing for those who want to keep it to the point. That being said I think if you never got a chance or didn't have the time or courage to pick up Issacson's book, this book might be a good substitute. It's a quick and easy read.

I gave this book a 5 out of 5 star review. It was an enjoyable biography and I would recommend. to others. Generously provided to me through NetGalley

I’m an avid Apple fan, from my original iPod, to my MacBook, to my iPad, my iPhone and my Apple TV (four of them). I used to watch Steve Jobs in his keynote speeches online, thinking I knew the roadmap to his fortune, how wrong was I? Nothing about him is as I thought it would be. In his early days, he was womanizer, a hippy, and quite frankly a bit of a user. The road to a successful Apple business was fought with failures and disappointments that I had no idea about. An extremely interesting biographic portrait that I highly recommend to anyone who loves biographies and of course anything Apple, even maybe those of you who are Samsung or Windows would love to see how the other side started. With statistics galore from ‘back in the day’ to the time of his death and beyond, I was engaged throughout. I received an advanced copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley. This is my honest review.

This was a wonderful book that includes a lot of information that Mr. Isaccson's book left out. If you really want to understand what motivated Steve Jobs, read this book.

Loved this book about Steve Jobs, will buy a copy for my husband. The pictures are striking. Thanks for the review copy.

When the renowned biographical author Walter Isaacson wrote what many considered the landmark biography of Steve Jobs, a weighty tome of 656 pages way back in 2011, one must ask if there is a need for another biography?

Kevin Lynch's Biographical Portrait being released in 2018 is described as a stunning visual guide, but here comes my confusion: if the description is literal, there wasn't much photographs or other visuals (or at least in the advanced copy I read) and figuratively, coming in at an anaemic 272 pages, there wasn't much information packed in to be considered a graphic portrayal of Steve Job's life.

Obviously Kevin Lynch couldn't have exclusive interviews with the late Steve Jobs, but that's exactly what made Isaacson's biography so extraordinary. Isaacson had unprecedented access to Jobs before he passed away and the conundrum of the conflicted man was so eloquently captured as a result thereof.

Despite Lynch's best efforts, we are left with a tepid biography that is quite simply left in the dust by it's forebearer.

This was one good book. Although one can't stop comparing it with Isaacson's book, this book was not much behind that one when it came to Jobs' life.

The pictures were amazing.

While I maintain my view that Steve Jobs wasn't that great a person, his impact on the world cannot be overlooked.

A good read, well worth your time.