Apple is a company that goes beyond its products and services, since it is recognized worldwide for having a powerful brand image. Its good marketing strategies or the revolutionary vision of its founders makes it an iconic company that is well worth reading. Below we show you which are the essential books that every fanboy or fangirl should read.
Books about Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs – official biography
Steve Jobs and Apple go hand in hand in history, although along the way the illustrious genius of sweater and jeans had to face numerous challenges in his work and personal life. Success is not an easy path and in this authoritative biography it can be verified. It is written by Walter Isaacson in collaboration with Jobs himself and is considered the definitive book on the legendary CEO of the Californian firm.
Steve Jobs of Karen Blumenthal
Under the premise of being “an inspiring book for young people who are not willing to give up their dreams”, this unofficial biography of Steve Jobs brings us closer to another perspective of the co-founder in which to discover a series of anecdotes not told in the official . It is divided into several chapters from each phase of Jobs’ life, and can also find interesting comments in between. At the end, it has an illustrated chronology of the products launched by Apple in those years, as well as a dictionary with the most technical terms.
Steve Jobs: Lights and Shadows of a Genius
Another book about Steve Jobs and in this case, as the title already advances, focuses on analyzing that dark part of the genius that is not always so well known. In the case of Steve Jobs we can know a lot of things thanks to books like this. This book is aimed in the most objective way possible to analyze the most creative part of the Apple co-founder, without neglecting those negative aspects of his personality that, luckily or unfortunately, led him and Apple to advance on a path it was never easy.
Other books about Apple in Spanish
Tim Cook’s Apple
The current CEO of Apple came to the management after a difficult moment after the illness and subsequent death of Steve Jobs. He is probably one of the company’s great strangers, but his story is gripping and uncovers surprising secrets and anecdotes. It is the official authorized biography of Cook, so the veracity of the facts is more than verified.
iWoz
Like Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak is an indispensable part of Apple’s history. In addition to being one of the founders, he was the brain capable of creating the Apple I and the following generations of company computers. Despite his more timid facet than that of Jobs, he has a brilliant intellect that is still praised to this day even though he abandoned the apple firm for decades. This book describes what his creative processes were like and some surprising anecdotes about it.
Bonus: Desingned by Apple in California
The same legend that gives way to each product of the company in its packaging is what gives its name to this spectacular book in which we can see Apple’s designs illustrated for more than 20 years. 450 photographs of the products and processes behind each one, from the first Macs to Apple Pencils. The quality of its paper and the value of its 300 pages make it an expensive book, but if you are especially interested you will pay off from minute 1.
English books about Apple
As Apple is a company born in the United States, there are another series of books written in this language that are very worthwhile. Even if you are not a Shakespearean language scholar, you could still try to read one, and it is also a good way to learn and improve the language.
Revolution in the Valley
Silicon Valley is not only the cradle of Apple, but of other large companies that have made technology as advanced as it is today. This book tells the story of how the industry began to change in the early 1980s thanks to, among others, Apple. The first Macintosh and strong competition from IBM marked a time when computers stopped being complex industrial tools and personal equipment to have in our homes.
Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products
Jony Ive was until 2019 the man with the most power in terms of Apple product design, even devising a good part of the exterior and interior design of the Apple Park headquarters. If you don’t know his history, this book can help you discover this man’s best kept secrets. It also highlights a good part of the joint history with Steve Jobs, not in vain was one of the culprits that the illustrious founder returned to the company of the bitten apple.
Apple Confidential 2.0
Essential book in which to know not only the beautiful part of the history of Apple, but also its darkest time. The company that today is valued at billions of dollars went through a difficult financial situation after the forced abandonment of Steve Jobs. This book reaches the time when the first iPod came out, with Apple’s consequent revolution in the music industry. The negative of this book is that it can only be obtained second hand and with a soft cover, but if you find it, it is a great opportunity to get into many secrets.
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