Apple
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Consumer computing and devices company whose founder cult, near-death in the 1990s and record-breaking second act have produced the deepest single-company literature in tech.
14 books · 4 people behind it
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- Steve JobsWalter Isaacson, 2011
- Becoming Steve JobsBrent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli, 2015
- After SteveTripp Mickle, 2022
The people behind it 4
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Founders 1
Executives 1
Journalists 2
Books 14
T1 Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson · 2011 · Authorised biography; the default account of Jobs and Apple.
Michael Moritz · 1984 · Contemporary account of Apple's founding; reissued 2009 as Return to the Little Kingdom.
Steven Levy · 1994 · The making of the Macintosh, written close to the events.
Brent Schlender, Rick Tetzeli · 2015 · Revisionist counterweight to Isaacson, built on decades of Schlender's interviews.
T2 After Steve
Tripp Mickle · 2022 · Cook and Ive after Jobs; the standard modern-era Apple book.
Michael S. Malone · 1999 · Apple's near-collapse in the Sculley-Spindler-Amelio years.
Leander Kahney · 2008 · Management-lessons treatment of Jobs's second tenure.
Ken Kocienda · 2018 · Insider account by the engineer who built the iPhone keyboard.
T3 Tim Cook
Leander Kahney · 2019 · The operations chief who scaled Apple past a trillion dollars.
Yukari Iwatani Kane · 2014 · Early and much-disputed argument that Apple declined after Jobs.