David Bunnell is journalist en oprichter van het blad Macworld. Op zijn weblog vertelt hij in 12 anekdotes over zijn ontmoetingen met Steve Jobs in 1983 en 1984 rond de lancering van de Macintosh. Een must voor wie Steve Jobs wil leren kennen. Hier een kort fragment over het maken van de foto voor de cover van de eerste Macworld editie.

“Steve walked in dressed in a beautiful pinstriped, double-breasted suit with a white shirt and red tie. Right away, there was a problem–Steve didn’t like the images we had chosen for the Mac screens.

Aware that he might bolt any moment, Andrew and I worked feverishly to fix them–putting up exactly what Steve said he wanted. Meanwhile he stared at Mosgrove, and said, “Are you one of those type of photographers who takes dozens of photos hoping one of them will turn out okay?”

Will just looked at him and shrugged.

“Take a picture of this,” Steve said, holding up his middle finger. We stared in disbelief. Someone must have keyed his Mercedes again, I remember thinking.”