Perhaps, as is usually the case, the truth lies midway between these positions (although even Schendler and Tetzeli find it necessary to slip in a chapter, titled Blind Spots, Grudges and Sharp Elbows). I, perhaps perversely, find Isaacson’s version infinitely more appealing: Steve Jobs, the nasty human being, who humiliates underlings, steals other people’s ideas, and drives colleagues to nervous collapse, yet is, at the same time, a genius who transforms the world with his brilliant products, and builds the most successful corporation of our times. Somehow, that magnificent contradiction makes Jobs so much more interesting a personality, regardless of what Apple’s management may want me to think.