Steve Jobs Apple-1 set to create a ‘perfect storm’ at auction [Video]

Imagine a ‘perfect storm’ on the auction block, where historical importance, rarity, massive demand, the provenance of several of history’s most important people and fortuitous timing all coincide to multiply the sale price to unprecedented levels.

The Apple-1 computer that once graced the desk of one Steve Jobs can be reasonably expected to be that perfect storm when it sells at Christie’s New York on 12 September 2024 – due to three main factors.

The Steve Jobs factor

If you spend any time around startup founders, entrepreneurs and innovation fiends, you’ll know Jobs is held in almost mythical regard. He was a visionary leader, a prescient product developer with a relentless focus on intuitive simplicity, and arguably one of mankind’s most transformative technology thinkers. The iPhone alone – the world’s first multi-touch smartphone, complete with an app store ecosystem – was a legendary achievement that absolutely changed the world.

Steve Jobs’ vision turned devices …