When Steve Jobs sneezes, Apple catches a cold

Jobs... is credited with single-handedly reinventing the company as the hothouse of consumer electronics innovation it is today. British designer Jonathan Ive might have given the iPod and the iMac their sleek, minimalist lines, Apple programmers wrote the code that powers its graceful OS X operating system... but the Mac, the iPod and the iPhone are all created in Jobs's image. A notorious perfectionist and control freak, a strict vegan, famed for his black turtleneck sweaters and Buddhist beliefs, he carries about him the same aura of Zen that distinguishes the Apple lines from their less elegantly functional rivals.

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