It seems unthinkable today — but more than two decades ago, when personal computers were still new and everybody listened to music on a Walkman, Steve Jobs was cast out of Apple. The year was 1985. IBM and Microsoft dominated the world of computing. The revolutionary Macintosh, launched with such fanfare just a year earlier, appeared to be foundering. And Jobs, the guiding force at Apple from the beginning, seemed not just expendable but a threat to the company he’d built. In West of Eden — a national best-seller when it was first published in 1989, now updated in a new edition available on Amazon — Wired contributing editor Frank Rose tells how it went down. In part one of this two-part essay, excerpted from the introduction to the new edition, Rose recalls the downward spiral Apple fell into after Jobs was dismissed.
via The End of Innocence at Apple: What Happened After Steve Jobs Was Fired | Epicenter from Wired.com.