India, April 1 -- There is something almost too neat about Apple's founding story - a garage in Los Altos, a hand-lettered partnership agreement, and a date that reads like a joke. April Fools' Day, 1976. Steve Jobs, twenty-one. Steve Wozniak, twenty-five. Ronald Wayne, forty, the reluctant elder who drew the original logo and sold his ten percent stake soon after for eight hundred dollars. Three men who set in motion a series of events that still define the technology half the world reaches for each morning, fifty years on. What they began was not, in any conventional sense, a company. It was the irrepressible enthusiasm of people who found computers beautiful and couldn't understand why no one else had made them feel that way. Wozniak was...