[TalonDJ]

So he wasn’t that much of a ‘visionary’ after all.’

The 'visionary' aspect of what he did was not to invent the underlying technologies. He crafted PRODUCTS. And the market proved they were visionary. Anyone that paid any attention to tech in the late 90s knew there were already MP3 Players for sale all over before the ipod came out. And not just one brand, there were several. But they were clunky things for a tech savvy user. Jobs made the ipod sleek simple and so easier to use than a walkman. The real genius there was the seamless integration with the itunes music player. The same thing happened with the iphone. Sure there were smart phones before that. The real genius was the app store and how easy they made it for third parties to put apps on the thing. Prior to that ATT and Verizon and other phone makers had these crappy little systems for buying a few overpriced addons for your phone. The Apple App store blew those out of the water and the market loved it.

Jobs understood that there is more to good technology products than just having good stats. He looked at the big picture of usability and entire consumer experience. The results speak for themselves.

A lot of break through products are not the 'first'. The Kindle was not the first ebook reader by a long shot but it kicked off the market. The ipad was not the first tablet by a long shot, but it made tablets into something everyone has to have. Apple did in vent some things... they made one of the very first hand held devices with handwriting recognition. The Newton was cutting edge stuff... and it flopped. The first of something is not always what gets big. They sold the technology to 'Palm' and it was the Palm Pilot that put PDAs on the map.

[tanknetter]

Bears reposting:

[TexasGunLover]

Jobs understood that there is more to good technology products than just having good stats. He looked at the big picture of usability and entire consumer experience. The results speak for themselves.

Ah... another iSheep caught in the Job's Reality Distortion Field...

[Resolute Conservative]

Vision is sometimes cloudy through the haze of doobie smoke.