Steven Paul Jobs. He's famous for having a rough edge whenever he got upset (to put it mildly). But two of his biggest products were made just because he held a grudge against an engineer who worked at Microsoft. How'd that happen?
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Notes

• Note [1] — It should say, "adjusted for multiple splits". Basically, a split is when a share of a company, well, splits. That means if there was a 2:1 split, if you had one share of the company, you now had two, albeit each at half the price. Apple has undergone four such splits since 1997. In 2000 and 2005, the stock split 2:1, in 2014, it split 7:1, and in 2020, it split 4:1. That means if you held 1 share of Apple in 1997, you'd have 112 shares today. I have it split already in this video. That means in reality, the share price was $16.80 back in June 1997.

• Note [2] — Those are real prototypes. Apple had to reveal all of this is their famous ''Apple vs. Samsung'' trial, which was basically a lawsuit that Apple filed saying that Samsung stole everything from them (because remember, the iPhone was the first mass-market touchscreen phone). The case went all the way up to the Supreme Court. The end result? Samsung had to pay Apple $539 million.

• Note [3] — If you'd like to see the various iPhone and iPad prototypes, you can read them here.

iPhone: https://www.cultofmac.com/488008/jony-ive-book-excerpt-iphone/

iPad: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2222798/earliest-known-photos-of-an-apple-ipad-prototype.html
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Music

1) Impromptu No. 1, Op. 29, by Frédéric Chopin (Frederic Chopin, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons)
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Image credits

iPhone — By Rafael Fernandez - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63395591, iPad — By Zach Vega - Own work, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18655462, Steve Jobs — https://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/video/us/2011/08/24/bts.steve.jobs.apple.timeline.cnn.640x360.jpg, Bill Gates — https://www.economist.com/img/b/1280/720/90/sites/default/files/images/print-edition/20190216_FNP002_0.jpg, Steve Jobs headshot — MetalGearLiquid, based on File:Steve_Jobs_Headshot_2010-CROP.jpg made by Matt Yohe, CC BY-SA 3.0 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0], iMac — via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=521646, computer — https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerweekly.com%2Fphotostory%2F2240107191%2FPhotos-Hardware-Hoarders-Your-old-computers-PART-1%2F1%2FAndrew-McLeans-Data-General-Dasher-One&psig=AOvVaw2dNhFjgG07GGv3lAT4rctl&ust=1609086978262000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCPCgqKKK7O0CFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD, Bill Gates 2 — Kjetil Ree, CC BY-SA 3.0 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0], via Wikimedia Commons, Steve Jobs — Netbook — By Woookie - File:Fujitsu Siemens Tablet PC.jpg, CC BY 2.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27040523, Apple Pencil — By 17jiangz1 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=88337627, iPad prototype — https://www.networkworld.com/article/2222798/earliest-known-photos-of-an-apple-ipad-prototype.html, iPhone prototype and iPod phone — https://www.cultofmac.com/488008/jony-ive-book-excerpt-iphone/, Steve Jobs — By Matthew Yohe, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82773576.

Thumbnail image by Tom Coates, through Wikimedia Commons.
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