Jobs was ego driven. Simple as that. Genius at the computer, and till he got some hard knocks - business stupid. That ego often clouded his judgement, as can be seen by this story. To want 50% because you want 50%, and you don’t care how you get it is supreme business ignorance.
There is one rule in business - the numbers must add up. Don’t care about the genius of the product, the marketing, the vision of the entrepreneur, or anything else, but the bottom line is the bottom line - the numbers must add up. It is the Great Force that levels all playing fields.
So many have failed the startup game for that very reason. They had underpants gnome visions of their business, or in the case of Jobs, delusions of grandeur. Had he been business smart he would have been the Bill Gates of the computing world and not Bill Gates.
Well ... I can’t accuse Jobs of business ignorance ... LOL ... not from the success of Apple.
The situation was real simple. See Post #18.