Top 10 Steve Jobs Magazine Covers of All Time

1984. This is the debut issue of Macworld. Apple’s “Remarkable New Personal Computer” looks pretty clunky now, especially the mouse.

February 1996. Creative director: John Plunkett; design director: Thomas Schneider; photograph:Steve Double.

Sam Kuo on his obsession with Jobs: “As a designer, I find his understanding and caring about design, coupled with engineering and functionality, fascinating. As for the rest of it, his life story is compelling: his rise to fame by starting Apple with Steve Wozniak, then being fired from it, leaving him out in the wilderness; and his chance return to Apple about a decade later; then turning Apple, which was a few months away from bankruptcy, into the $127 billion company we all know today.”

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