Pure marketing guy.
Pure marketing guy.Was he even an engineer? Wasn’t he just a marketing guy?2 posted on May 7, 2013 12:48:46 PM EDT by Borges
Steve Jobs saw the Xerox GUI, and bought - for AAPL stock which came to be worth more than Xerox itself, tho not until long after Xerox had sold it - access to Xerox’s GUI lab and the right to mimic it. Jobs then used what he learned to develop the Mac.Henry Ford didn’t invent the automobile, and Steve Jobs didn’t invent the personal computer, or even the GUI - but Ford invented the mass market automobile, and Jobs invented the mass market GUI computer. Thomas Edison didn’t invent the electric light, either - he only developed a light bulb with a practical lifetime, which could be made at a cost that could be mass marketed in conjunction with the electric power it required.
If Jobs wasn’t an engineer, neither was Ford, and neither was Edison - and being an engineer is highly overrated.