My reading is that Isaacson cared more about Steve Jobs as a human being than as a living case study for entrepreneurs and wantrepreneurs. Steve Jobs commissioned the biography so his kids would have a better idea of who he was as a human being, not so you and I could learn his secrets for building a startup and being a CEO. (That project was internal to Apple: http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/06/business/la-fi-apple...)
It would have been entirely possible to accomplish both missions. Tell the story of unblinking-dropout-denying-father-commune-living-india-visiting-fruit-eating-acid-dropping steve, at the same time that you tell the story of how he built Apple, Next, Pixar, and Apple 2.0, and what it meant to him.
I don't think there was a single follower of Steve Jobs that was very satisfied with Issacson's Biography. I didn't even really feel like it told me about Steve Jobs the person.
