The Steve Jobs biography isn’t as great as people hoped it would be.
True.
But, many people have seen better tech-editing in a Sky Mall catalog.
Agreed.
However, contrary to Siracusa’s assertions (and Gruber’s agreement), I don’t think that means Jobs picked the wrong author. To me, it says his publisher and editorial staff did a fucking terrible job. It’s not Isaacson’s job to exhibit technical acumen, and honestly, for a non-techie, I think he did a better job than I would have expected. But there should have been world-class technical gatekeepers on the editorial staff.
First and foremost it was intended, by Jobs, to be a book about the man. I think, in that light, the author did a bang-up job. Technical errors are like nails on a chalkboard to J.Sir, and they definitely caught me by surprise. But unless the book had been about Apple or the Silicon Valley mythology (it wasn’t), I wasn’t likely to let the errors sidetrack me from the real story. Which was good.
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