[hedgetrimmer]

Mr. Jobs didn't invent things. He marketed things.

To his credit, he hung out with some very smart people, and then hired them, once the company was started.

Who invented the Mac? Jef Raskin,George Crow, Chris Espinosa, Joanna Hoffman, Bruce Horn, Susan Kare, Andy Hertzfeld, Guy Kawasaki, Daniel Kottke, and Jerry Manock.

Who invented the ipod? You have to credit Jon Rubinstein, who brought a really tiny hard drive back from a business trip to Cannon Ltd in Japan in the mid 1990s, circled his engineers around him at FirePower systems, and asked, what can we do with this?

And the ipad? Well, the GridPad and the EO were there long before the ipad.

[roadcat]

Mr. Jobs didn't invent things. He marketed things.

You're wrong, and just one of those haters out there. You have no right saying un truths on a sad day. Steve Jobs is an inventor in his own right, with a couple hundred patents. How many do you have? I have personally been around Andy Hertzfeld, Guy Kawasaki, and others before the Lisa and Mac came out. Steve Jobs was very much involved in the creative design behind the Mac. Andy is a very smart engineer. Perhaps you should ask him if Jobs only marketed it! And he'll tell you Steve was a smart engineer too, and contributed a lot to it's design.

[roadcat]

And the ipad? Well, the GridPad and the EO were there long before the ipad.

You're grasping at false statements to back your claim. Those products are nothing like the iPad. The Apple Newton was out long before. And I have a Chalkboard that I use on my Apple II, I bought it in 1983. Long before the iPad. But it's not the same! The iPad is revolutionary. There were lots of failing pads in the past but nothing like this.

[Paradox]

That was the true Genius of Steve Jobs. In some ways, people give him too much credit, but the truth is, the guy was not a tech guru genius, but he had VISION, something that is sorely lacking these days. He knew how to surround himself with the right people, knew how to motivate them to do great things. He deserves his high standing.

(and I say that as someone who loathes the Apple fanboys)

[Vendome]

And my friend Woz? Markula?

Sheesh

[Revolting cat!]

As far as I’ve read, Steve Jobs wasn’t an inventor in the mold of Thomas Edison, and I hadn’t heard of him being a noted “engineer”, hardware or software, until I saw this thread, but he was a brilliant conceptualizer, that was his greatest strength, an idea man, and yes, a marketer of those ideas, and don’t let the fanatical fanboys here call you a “hater”. Pathetic and insecure seekers of superiority when a great man dies.

RIP.

[5thGenTexan]

Steve took existing technologies and combined them in novel ways to solve problems. He understood the need for a complete solution and the importance of the total customer experience.

He was an innovator in that he innovated how technology was applied. He also was a genius in the area of industrial design selection - he "knew" which design to use, which to toss and how to guide a team to make them.

[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.