Apple's Inversion

Apple and I are the same age.

Well, not exactly, but close enough! We’re both Gen Xers.

Apple Computer was founded on April Fools’ Day, 1976 by the two Steves, Wozniak and Jobs. Woz handled the hardware, and Jobs knew how to make computers easy to use and understand. It was a really incredible dynamic duo of sorts that only comes around every so often, like Banting and Best, or Batman and Robin.

Apple’s origin story has been told hundreds of times by people who were there to witness it, so I’ll give a pretty quick recap of how they got started here.

Up until the late 70s, virtually nobody could hope to own a computer, but that all changed when Popular Electronics decided to put the Altair 8800 on the cover of their January 1975 magazine. The Altair created an incredible buzz within the budding home computer niche—it really wasn’t fair to call it anything other than a fringe activity for engineers and geeks, people like Jobs and Woz, and their friend Bill Gates.

Wozniak knew he could do …