New ‘Steve Jobs in Exile’ book reads like a lost season of your favorite series

A review spotlights Geoffrey Cain’s new biography, Steve Jobs in Exile, about Steve Jobs’s post-Apple years at NeXT.

Built on interviews and archival research, the book revisits Jobs’s “wilderness years” and adds nuance to familiar Silicon Valley history.

It argues that NeXT was not a detour but a crucial period that helped shape Jobs’s later legacy and Apple’s comeback.

The book also corrects popular myths about Jobs, Apple, and the people around him, from Pixar to key NeXT collaborators.