Infinite loop
by Michael S. Malone · first published 1999
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The inside story of how one of America's most beloved companies - Apple Computer - took off like a high-tech rocket-only to come crashing to Earth twenty years later. How did Apple lose its way? Why did the world still care so deeply about a company that had lost its leadership position? Michael S. Malone, from the unique vantage point of having grown up with the company's founders, and having covered Apple and Silicon Valley for years, sets out to tell the gripping behind-the-scenes story - a story that is even zanier than the business world thought. In essence, Malone claims, with only a c
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Oh I loved Infinite Loop by Malone. Bill and Dave sounds like an insta-checkout for me.
on “Amazon is filled with garbage e-books, this is how they get made” ↗The short version is that Siracusa recommends "Infinite Loop" by Michael Malone as the best single source for Apple history prior to the return of Jobs, and he says that the post-return material in the Isaacson book (ie, everything unique that it offers) is poor…
on “Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me”” ↗…and it probably would’ve died. Steal great ideas - "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas," said Jobs in a 1996 PBS Documentary, Triumph of the Nerds. In fact, in Michael Malone’s, Infinite Loop: How Apple, The World’s Most Insanely Great Computer Company Went Insane, it was after a visit to Xerox in the summer of 1973, when a programmer from Apple laid the foundation for the Macintosh. In a…
on “Steve Jobs on "Internet startups"” ↗