It seems to be a week for interesting peeks at Apple history<\/a>, a new piece telling the story of Softbank founder Masayoshi Son making a $17B gamble on the basis of a gentleman\u2019s agreement with Steve Jobs<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Invariably known as Masa, the Japanese entrepreneur \u2013 who holds the interesting record of having been the richest man in the world for three days \u2013 figured out that Apple<\/a> had to be working on a phone, two years before it was announced \u2026 <\/p>\n
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