The iMac's appearance, like the handle and translucent colors, were better talking points than gigahertz and hard drive capacity, Ive said. The candy-colored PCs were the home run Apple needed.

Sir Jony Ive has led Apple's design team since 1996. Along the way, he's become a living legend in the design world, dreaming up the candy-colored iMac, the music industry-disrupting iPod ...