[rollo tomasi]

“The public has no idea what it wants”... said every pompous inventor ever.

Inventors/mangers/investors start with a vision of what the customer WOULD WANT or WOULD NEED. I-Pod for instance was based on a want. Who would not want their entire music collection in the palm of their hands? An inventor who does not create based on a want or need will become poor very quickly.

Jobs had some failures, guess what, those failures resulted in the public not wanting or needing them. Successes were the exact opposite, the public responded to the products usefulness of their wants and needs.

[Swordmaker]

Inventors/mangers/investors start with a vision of what the customer WOULD WANT or WOULD NEED. I-Pod for instance was based on a want. Who would not want their entire music collection in the palm of their hands? An inventor who does not create based on a want or need will become poor very quickly.

How many world wide industry changing consumer products have YOU invented much less brought to market, Rollo? What makes you an expert on such products that the consuming public had not yet perceived they even had a want for, much less such a great desire for that would cause the public to spend billions of hard earned dollars to buy? My guess is exactly ZERO.

You’re right that Steve Jobs has some failures, but how about you actually naming Jobs’ "failures" which he actually brought to market. . . you can’t even properly spell the name of one of his most successful products lines, but deign to criticize one of his statements that made him a success.