When I started reading this, I expected a fawning whitewash, so was surprised to see it wasn't anything of the sort. Isaacson does a good job of laying bare all Jobs' faults - and there are plenty of them. He may have been a visionary in many senses, but despite already having heard a lot of the stories about him going back to the early days, I was still surprised at just how much of an arsehole he could be. Shunning his children, treating employees and colleagues like shit, stealing the credit for the ideas of others, and being incredibly self centred were his worst faults, and those are just the first few off the top of my head. 
 To his credit, though, he told Isaacson that he had carte blanche to write whatever he wanted, and that if it didn't make him look bad, he wasn't doing his job properly. It certainly achieved that. 
 Excellent on the early days, and covers the Pixar period very well. I must admit, I skipped some of the latter stuff - the iphone 4 antenna kerfuffle isn't exactly gripping - but a very well written book, and well worth reading.