So Steve Jobs brought Apple Computer Inc. back from the brink, first with its candy-colored iMacs and then with its cool white iPods. So he's changed the face of entertainment. So he sold Pixar to Disney and is ready to bring his digital vision to the biggest audience of all.
Still, in this moment of anointing Jobs as the colossus astride the worlds of technology and entertainment, a little perspective may be in order.
Jobs and Apple are still paying the price for losing a fateful battle with Microsoft in the 1980s. It was fought in court and in the marketplace, and at the end, Apple was left with an insignificant share of the very market one could argue it had invented, personal computers.
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