“Mr. Jobs didn’t invent things. He marketed things.”
Heh. I´d say the evidence is pretty thick on the ground that Jobs did much, much more than merely “marketing”, I.e. you are using a false dichotomy to make your point.
Jobs hired very smart people. They did the work.
Jobs gets the glory because he was the one behind the microphone demoing the product at the introduction.
That is not saying that he didn’t have a genius for choosing next big thing technologies to support, but once you get an idea and want to go for it, you can’t unless you have the team that can realize that technology for you. In the Silicon Valley, that is the way things work, and have worked since Apple Computer was founded.
Apple would never have come into being without Steve Wozniak. He said “So I was the designer, who could kind of design anything you could conceptualize and then Steve liked to always find ways to turn it into a business”
Their partnership started with a blue box that Woz designed, then progressed to the computer.
Woz also said, “Basically, from the time Steve left Apple to the time Steve came back, he really became an outstanding business manager, able to...trust people who thought well. And not just those who could maybe design products, but those who could design products and have a feel about what to make them a little more special, to have a little more meaning to the users.”
He said, Jobs became an outstanding business manager. He said Jobs learned to trust other people ‘who thought well’ and had a ‘feel’ about how to make products more meaningful to users.
By your comments, I’d say Job’s TEAM did an outstanding job on YOU.