Steve Jobs Billion Dollar Hippy

Broadly considered a brand that inspires fervour and defines cool consumerism Apple has become one of the biggest corporations in the world fuelled by gamechanging products that tap into modern desires Its leader Steve Jobs was a longhaired college dropout with infinite ambition and an inspirational perfectionist with a bullys temper A man of contradictions he fused a Californian counterculture attitude and a mastery of the art of hype with explosive advances in computer technology Insiders including Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak the chairman who ousted Jobs from the company he founded and Jobs chief of software tell extraordinary stories of the rise fall and rise again of Apple with Steve Jobs at its helm With Stephen Fry world wide web inventor Sir Tim BernersLee and branding guru Rita Clifton Evan Davis decodes the formula that took Apple from suburban garage to global supremacy