We have the perfect opportunity to do a lot of reading right now (as long as you don’t have little kids demanding your attention). why not learn about the history of apple and the people behind the company? In this article we have book recommendations to read about Apple’s Steve Jobs and its co-founder Steve Wozniak, biographies of designer Jony Ive and current CEO Tim Cook, and the best guides to Apple’s impact on the computing revolution.
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this biography of water isaacson was published shortly after jobs’s death in 2011. isaacson has the accolade of being the exclusive official biographer of jobs and has granted more than 40 interviews with jobs and interviewed more than 100 of jobs with colleagues, family and friends. . Crucially, Jobs gave his entire corporation to the book and didn’t even ask me to read it before publication. As a result, when it was published, the book gave us a real insight into what Steve Jobs really thought.
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costs £6.49 on kindle and £6.49 on apple books.
little fry
In many ways, this book is the opposite of the previous one, but it is no less personal. Small Fry is written by Steve Jobs’ first daughter (the one he initially claimed was not his), Lisa Brennan-Jobs. this book is less about jobs and more about her personality. brennan-jobs is a writer by trade and this is her story.
you can buy it for £4.99 on the apple book store and £4.68 on amazon kindle.
the bite into the apple: a memoir of my life with steve jobs
jobs daughter is not the only one who has written about her father. Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ mother, Chrisann Brennan has also written about her relationship with Steve Jobs. Given that the jobs treated Brennan cruelly, it’s not surprising that the book doesn’t gushingly describe her jobs, but it does offer an interesting insight into her character in Apple’s formative years.
you can get it for £6.49 on apple books and £4.15 on amazon kindle.
iwoz: From computer geek to cult icon: how I invented the personal computer, co-founded apple, and had fun doing it
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this is the autobiography of steve wozniak, the other founder of apple. It was published in 2006 and is a good easy read that tells the story of Woz, recounting his childhood and how he met Steve Jobs. remember that woz left apple pretty soon, so you won’t learn much about more recent events at apple.
buy it from the apple bookstore for £3.99. it’s also £3.99 from amazon.
revolution in the valley: the incredible story of how the mac was made
We’re still in the early days of apple here with this book by andy hertzfeld, who was one of the original members of the macintosh development team. tells the story of the development of the macintosh until its launch in 1984.
It costs £12.99 in the bookstore and £11.31 on kindle.
the second coming of steve job
Published in 2001, this book traces Steve Jobs’ return to Apple after being ousted from the company he founded 12 years earlier. The author, Alan Deutschman, discusses how Jobs was responsible for one of the biggest game changers in business history when he transformed Apple from a company losing money into one generating hundreds of millions in profits.
you can buy it for £5.49 at the apple bookstore or on kindle.
Insanely Cool: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything
This is another look at the Macintosh, though this time the author (well-known tech writer Steven Levy is currently the managing editor of Wired) takes the story beyond the release of the original Macintosh. It was published in 1994, but there is a newer edition that includes updates and a transcript of an interview with Steve Jobs (newer editions have an image of the iMac on the cover).
It costs £3.49 at the apple bookstore.
accidental empires: how kids from silicon valley make millions, fight foreign competition and still can’t get a date
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this book by robert x. Cringely was the inspiration for the Channel 4/PBS series “Triumph of the Nerds.” It’s not just about Apple, it’s about all the characters behind the computer revolution. It was published in 1996. More recently, in 2012, an interview given by Steve Jobs for “Triumph of the Nerds” was published as “Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview”. read about these steve jobs documentaries here.
There is no ebook version, but you can buy the paperback on amazon here.
Incredibly Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success
ken segall was the creative director of apple’s ad agency when jobs returned to apple and worked with jobs on the imac launch and campaigns like the think different campaign. His book breaks down the simple thinking behind Apple’s marketing.
costs £7.99 on the apple book store and amazon kindle.
tim cook
leander kahney (formerly of wired) has posted some apple staff biographies (as you’ll see if you keep reading). We’ll start with Tim Cook, in which Kahney describes Cook’s accomplishments since he took over Apple from Steve Jobs before Jobs’ death.
costs £9.99 at apple bookstore and amazon kindle.
jony, i’m the genius behind the best apple products
also by leander kahney, this biography of apple designer (until he left in 2019) jony ive was published in 2013 and describes how i went from being a scruffy guy in the uk to apple’s most important person.
costs £7.99 at apple book store and amazon.
To learn more about Apple’s history, read our guide here.
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