[ravager]

He didn't just market thing. The he identified the right ideas and combined them into a world class concepts. Not all inventors are able to come up with the right solution or a brilliant concept even though they may be technical geniuses. A large number of so-called inventions never end up anywhere because of a number of reasons ranging from high cost to impracticality. The names that you mentioned as “inventors” are inventors because of Jobs. And that is why he is a GENIUS.

[hedgetrimmer]

..sigh..

He identified other people's ideas. He used frogdesign to do industrial design. He used Alan Kay, and Andy Hertzfeld and Steve Wozniak to create the technology.

Here's what Bud Tribble said about working with Steve Jobs-- "Well, just because he tells you that something is awful or great, it doesn't necessarily mean he'll feel that way tomorrow. You have to low-pass filter his input. And then, he's really funny about ideas. If you tell him a new idea, he'll usually tell you that he thinks it's stupid. But then, if he actually likes it, exactly one week later, he'll come back to you and propose your idea to you, as if he thought of it.