Apple Heroes and Villains

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As creator of QuickTime and 32-bit QuickDraw, Bruce Leak kick-started the multimedia revolution, bringing quality video to the Mac a year before anything even remotely comparable hit Windows. His team also had the foresight to make QuickTime an editing suite as well as a player.It's a shame that vision has now been bifurcated into professional and consumer versions.Photo: AP/WebTV Networks
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Tony Fadell has been credited as the father of the iPod. In the late '90s, Fadell shopped around the concept of a hard disk-based music player to several companies, but it was only Apple that took the bait. Since then, it has gone from an over-priced MP3 player to a juggernaut that is bigger than the Macintosh. It should be noted that while Fadell came up with the business model, Jobs shaped the iPod, especially its ingenious interface.

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Responsible for Apple's powerful and efficient hardware, Jon Rubinstein helped make the innards of the iMac and the Power Mac G4 as lickable as the outside. He's presently head of the iPod division at Apple, which has taken the company to new heights in a new field. Rubinste

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