Steve Jobs’s Beat

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Aug. 8, 2023 7:58 am ET

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The Steve Jobs-owned Birkenstocks that sold at auction last November looked like they’d been run over by a semitruck full of iPhones. Worn by the Apple impresario throughout the 1970s and ’80s, the straps on the brown suede sandals were saggy and stretched, the leather insoles were curling at the edges like burned paper and the footbed was about as black as a well-done steak.

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