news.oreilly.com — "Steve made zero technical contributions. He's not a technical person, so sort of his main contribution was setting the goal, setting a very high goal, and then being really passionate about exceeding the expectations, you know just trying to make every single conceivable aspect of the product as brilliant and creative and wonderful as possible."
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carbamideAug 28, 2008
Your reply made me think of the writing style of the Dinosaur comics.
zippoAug 28, 2008
Jobs never claimed to be the tech. He's visionary and the business man.Woz made a computer for a laugh. Jobs took Woz's genius and turned into a multi-billion-dollar corporation.Jobs was the ying to Woz's yang.
smp734Aug 28, 2008
GAWWWWD Reddit is SO much better than this s**t hole, let me out! /Slams Wall, OUT!
mrbitchAug 29, 2008
Zing!
rudegarAug 29, 2008
didn't say i did not respect him just that even a leader seen as more of a nerd thenjobs don't spend his time coding like a mad mandon't think jobs really did anything muchapart from pm and marketing
Closed AccountAug 29, 2008
Biggest reason why the mac is the way it is now:JT: The Mac came out a time when the future of desktop computing was really up for grabs; there were a lot of players like Radio Shack and Commodore and people like that coming into the market or in the market already. What factors do you think ended up giving the numerical edge to the X86 platforms?AH: It was probably the decision to openly license it. When the Mac came out and for two years thereafter it was at least four or five years ahead of Windows and possibly could have taken the place of Windows if it was openly licensed, but because the Macintosh was restricted to a single member, Apple, it never could become an industry rather than a single platform. Of course it was an industry because it had third-party developers, but it couldn't become mainstreamed restricted to a single vendor. That's the single biggest factor but there are probably other factors as well having to do with the sensibility of the designers and the willingness to meet the requirements of the enterprise versus the requirements of the consumer. Ours were more with the consumer I think; Apple has always been that way.
mrbitchSep 2, 2008
@CCB0x45 : " to me IT people aren't even very computer *literate. " - there, fixed that for you. (oh, the irony of having to assist you with the word "literate")