The stories of Jobs fraught rivalry with Microsoft's Bill Gates and subsequently Google's Eric Schmidt make for intriguing, much-trailed tails – but the detailed descriptions of Apple’s keynotes and publicity are equally important.
While there are sometimes too many historical facts for the selective reader, the vigorous prose easily carries one through more than 700 pages of narrative. The well-chosen photographs help.
...I recommend this book. It will fill in the gaps in Franklin's life between the well-known fragments that you already know, plus give another look at the critical years in the founding of the United States.
The biography is honest and therefore often harsh, but it confers on Jobs a kind of tragic desperation when, with the onset of cancer, he discovers that his infinitely looped and ingenious mind is housed in a fallible body.
If you want to understand exactly how it came to be that your laptop or cellphone can do a lot more than play Pong or tell you that two plus two is four, you’ll relish The Innovators. If you love technology, it’s a rollicking ride.