Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and the long road to the iPad. - By Tim Wu - Slate Magazine
Now in 2010, the iPad takes the same ideas to their logical extreme. It is a beautiful and nearly perfect machine. It is also Jobs' final triumph, the final step in Apple's evolution away from Wozniak and toward a closed model.
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