In the San Francisco metropolitan area, where this shift has been pronounced over the past decade, computer and electronic-product manufacturing accounted for 11% of gross-domestic-product growth in the region from 2005 to 2010, outpacing all other industries.

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When they began selling computer parts a decade ago, they were long on ideas but short on cash.

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He showed that twenty years ago with the Apple II, and again a decade later with the Next computer.

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