Steve Jobs Exposed: 10 Confessions From Apple's Tech Legend

Walter Isaacson's new biography of Steve Jobs is the product of dozens of interviews with the Apple CEO, who died earlier this month. It is an exhaustive volume, covering topics as diverse as Jobs' long-term battle with cancer and attempts to revive Apple in the late 1990s. By this decade, a string of product hits& including the iPad, iPod and iPhone& had transformed the struggling company into one of the most respected and valued enterprises in the world, and elevated Jobs to superstar status. Despite that fame, Jobs remained a famously private figure, meaning the biography offers a first-ever glimpse into not only the details of his life, but also his unvarnished opinions on rivals such as Google and Microsoft, allies, and the evolution of technology (particularly in mobile, where the iPad and the iPhone established dominating presences). In the process, the book reveals a good deal about Apple. Jobs had a heavy hand in crafting those blockbuster products, relying on the savvy of executives such as Jonathan Ive and Tim Cook in conjunction with his own intuition. The question now is whether, without that intuition, the company can continue to innovate in the same effective way. Indeed, before his death, Jobs expressed concern over whether his "legacy" would keep Apple healthy after he left. That's just one new revelation contained in the biography. Here are some additional ones. - ...

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