Steve Jobs in Exile
Steve Jobs in Exile by Geoffrey Cainby Geoffrey Cain
Shares rank 2 of 9 biographies by recommenders
Focuses on Steve Jobs's years in exile at NeXT and gives a different view of him. One reader notes it may be biased.
Focuses on Steve Jobs's years in exile at NeXT and gives a different view of him. One reader notes it may be biased.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
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Why people recommend it
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Focuses only on the NeXT exile years
“I was very happy to find a book that focused purely on this era from Geoffrey Cain”
Comment from 26 Oct 2026 in “Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office” “What an amazing idea to focus solely on this time period in his life.”
Comment from 15 May 2026 in “Steve Jobs Next Computer: His Forgotten Exile Years” Shows a different side of Jobs
“While maybe biased, also shows a bit about the real Steve Jobs without the distortion field”
Comment from 15 May 2026 in “Steve Jobs Next Computer: His Forgotten Exile Years” “Really like the book, and you get a another view of Steve Jobs”
Comment from 24 Jul 2026 in “The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)”
Other biographies people recommend
The four most recommended other biographies, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Man from the Futureby Ananyo Bhattacharya | 9 | 1 | 90% | 3 | — | — |
| Steve Jobs in Exileby Geoffrey CainThis page | 7 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
| Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thingby Randall Stross | 7 | 0 | 100% | 3 | — | — |
| The Years of Lyndon Johnsonby Robert Caro | 6 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
| The Infinity Machineby Sebastian Mallaby | 6 | 1 | 86% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
5 of the 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I was very happy to find a book that focused purely on this era from Geoffrey Cain”
“had a very good section on this”
“Really like the book, and you get a another view of Steve Jobs”
“What an amazing idea to focus solely on this time period in his life.”
“While maybe biased, also shows a bit about the real Steve Jobs without the distortion field”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.