An outstanding biography in its original version, which allows the translation far behind view

I'm not a "IPerson" and will probably never be a. I find it strange to today, how many people who spend a lot of money for appealing design products that can be from Apple but widely controlled and configured by the user is limited and do so with pleasure every year. And yet the man Steve Jobs has become for me the latest with his Stanford Commencement Address 2005 a model. Reason enough to read this book.

The well 550-page book is divided into 42 chapters, which vary from a few to about 40 pages in length. Starting from his parents and his early years characterized Walter Isaacson based on more than 100 interviews and other sources an accurate picture of the career of man Steve Jobs, with all its Werkwürdigkeiten, ups and downs. The trail continues about his early years and finally his sacking from Apple, new business start-ups (NeXT, Pixar), his return to Apple, and the things that make him far beyond the IT scene also known: the iPod, the iPhone, iPad and other things, all the markets have turned upside down and new ones created. A good part of the book is also the owner paid jobs, who wore some strange in itself and from a marriage brought forth three children. Here also his fight against cancer is illuminated, who coined it in the last seven years of his life. It ends in the summer of 2011, when it became clear that he would lose this battle soon.

This book has helped me to take a deeper, unbiased view of these outstanding people. Jobs' desire to have no influence on the work and to encourage Isaacson numerous interview partners even to speak openly and honestly about it, paid off here. So many impressions remain. A man who can be called a genius and (with his extreme mood fluctuation) as Borderliner simultaneously. In summary Isaacson concludes that jobs remain as one of the greatest inventors and entrepreneurs of the 21st century for a long time in the collective memory of humanity and will be mentioned in the same breath as Edison or Ford.

I started a few weeks ago to read the German translation of the book and placed approximately in the middle on the original English version in order after the translation was recognized preposterous in some places. The original language is colorful and so demanding for the foreign reader. But it was dearer to me, look up many words in the dictionary as to put myself in the German text so many questions about the quality of translation.