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No use arguing with you, you don't operate on logic and are all over the place. Akin to saying NASA didn't invent sending a man to the Moon because the Chinese were sending little rockets into the night sky hundreds of years ago. Wake up, man, and stop dredging for nonsensical explanations to try to bolster your arguments. It's like listening to my three-year-old grandkids.

Thomas Edison did not create digital movies. One reason digital movies are popular is because of Pixar. They did pioneering work in making a sea change to digital movies and projection. Oh, Steve Jobs had a hand in that, as Pixar was going no where and Jobs built up the company from practically nothing. Jobs was focused on creating the digital technology at Pixar, while letting the team there be focused on creating the stories.

Same goes for Gutenberg. Did he drive digital technology in allowing magazines to blend colors, photos and fonts before they're printed in multiple layers? I don't think so. A couple of my daughters worked in the magazine business, most of their publishing was done with Apple Macs. Gutenberg didn't create them.

Then there's Xerox. There is so much bullcrap about them creating the Mac, so I won't even go into it. As Swordmaker explained, Xerox did not create the GUI architecture that Apple created.

Akin to saying NASA didn't invent sending a man to the Moon because the Chinese were sending little rockets into the night sky hundreds of years ago.

It is a testament to your degree of disconnect with what is really important in the world, for you to compare what Jobs did with "sending a man to the moon."

In proper context, what Steve Jobs did would be more akin to painting "NASA" on the side of the rocket. Yup, he did a pretty good Job, but let's get real. The Actual nuts and bolts work was done by other people. (They are called Engineers.)

Thomas Edison did not create digital movies.

No, he did the real creative bit. Thinking of the concept of "movies" and then building it in hardware. That it would eventually be represented by digital technology was as predictable as the night following the day. While we're at it, Steve Jobs didn't create digital movies either. Technology produced by a lot of other people who were not him, did that. Steve just happened to be the head of a company when the technology matured enough to be used.

A couple of my daughters worked in the magazine business, most of their publishing was done with Apple Macs. Gutenberg didn't create them.

Neither did Jobs. Engineers who worked for him did.

As Swordmaker explained, Xerox did not create the GUI architecture that Apple created.

Which means they thought of the idea, and built it in hardware. Jobs comes along and says "Wow! That's neat! I'm going to brow beat my engineers into building one of these, only it's going to be extra-spectacular-super-duper better!

"Now where did I put my whips and chains?"