There are several admiring Steve Jobs stories in Steve Jobs,
Walter Isaacson’s much-anticipated authorized biography, but they’re
overshadowed by the many, many more instances in which Jobs comes off as
a world-class jerk. Jobs was rude, mean, abusive, and often neglectful
to everyone in his life; the people he hated got it bad, but the people
he loved sometimes got it worse. ...
Isaacson has compiled so many instances of personal and professional
thuggery—and so many from Jobs’ later, allegedly “mellower” years—that
even longtime Jobs admirers (a group in which I count myself) will
struggle to like the guy in this book.
--Farhad Manjoo, Slate, on the non-sainthood of Steve Jobs
