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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Wozniak was an engineer. Jobs, like Gates, was a salesman. What’s the difference you ask? Jobs without Wozniak sells used cars. wozniak without Jobs is still a design engineer who designs and engineers.


74 posted on 05/07/2013 7:10:55 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
Wozniak was an engineer. Jobs, like Gates, was a salesman. What’s the difference you ask? Jobs without Wozniak sells used cars. wozniak without Jobs is still a design engineer who designs and engineers.
In that paradigm, the Mac never gets built because the engineers at Apple, Wosniak included, do not direct their abilities in that particular direction. Whereas in fact, the Mac was built - because Steve Jobs pushed the engineers to make it a reality. Remember, the Mac wasn’t just the first thing that came out when you poured the PARC GUI concept into Wozniak’s head - the first iteration was the Lisa, which was a failure. It was Jobs who kept the engineers working on the software and hardware which finally became the Mac.

In your paradigm, we would all have bought a Lisa because Steve Jobs was such a wonderful used-car salesman. But we didn’t. We bought the Mac, tho - because the drive of Steve Jobs finally got it right (For its time, of course - today nobody would touch a new computer which had as limited a capability as the original Mac did).


76 posted on 05/08/2013 3:06:46 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (“Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: jwalsh07

Bill Gates was an engineer.


79 posted on 05/08/2013 6:43:34 AM PDT by Borges
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