iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 368 pages
• Published by: Wiley
• Edition: 1st Edition April 14, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0471787841
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471787846
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Reader Reviews
This review is from: iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business (Hardcover) I agree wholeheartedly with the reviewer who observed that this book reads like a tabloid. Many passages read like copy that has been lifted from a script for some cheesy "Entertainment Tonight" type show. Poorly written and poorly organized. Jumps back and forth through time for no apparent reason and there are many redundant sentences throughout. Did the author or publisher neglect to have an editor take a look at this? People in the know will be disappointed to find that much of iCon is recycled information. Speaking of that, a writer for the SF Chronicle noted that much of his research seems to have made an appearance in iCon. He stopped short of calling it plagiarism, but it does make me wonder about the "research" that went into this project. I have no ties to Apple Computer or Steve Jobs and I am writing this review as objectively as I can. This book stinks! And that's unfortunate because I had hoped for a definitive unauthorized biography of Jobs when I picked up a copy of iCon, but this isn't it. Not by a long shot. I'd recommend Owen Linzmayer's "Apple Confidential 2.0" over this book even though it is not a biography but more of a history of Apple. Comment | | (Report this)