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Insanely Great by Steven Levy

This is the book about Apple that tries to disentangle how the both most loved and most mistrusted computer of all time emerged from the primordial soup of home and lab-brewed computers of the early 1980s. Rarely can guys with long hair and soldering irons have had so much influence, turning a computer into a zeitgeist cult.

The title neatly alludes to Steve Jobs' famous assessment of the Mac while summing up the author's obvious ambivalence. The Mac might be great, but there has always been the danger of a descent into insanity. A history of Apple for people who remember a time before the iPod and iPhone.

Insanely Great by Steven Levy, 2000, Penguin, ISBN 978-0140291773

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