Pure marketing guy.Was he even an engineer? Wasnt 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 Xeroxs GUI lab and the right to mimic it. Jobs then used what he learned to develop the Mac.Henry Ford didnt invent the automobile, and Steve Jobs didnt 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 didnt 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 wasnt an engineer, neither was Ford, and neither was Edison - and being an engineer is highly overrated.
But Ford and Edison were inventors. Jobs wasn’t really was he? The original Apple was designed by Steve Wozniak.
“and being an engineer is highly overrated. “
I don’t think so. A room full of marketing guys or MBAs won’t be building anything anytime soon. Apple was built by an engineer and so was Microsoft.