I nearly stopped reading after the first chapter because I feared that I would waste my time with 30-year-old gossip, luckily I kept reading and was rewarded with a wonderful history lesson. The book stops at a point where the future of Apple is unclear. Not all of the author's predictions have become reality, but the book does a great job of telling the story of the rise and the fall of several companies which shaped the world of computing in which we live today.