Hard disagree. Jobs polished things that already existed. They were never on the bleeding edge of hardware design and manufacturing when it comes to actual performance and capability.

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WarmWash 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Right, and he had the knowledge to know that consumers don't care about that stuff. So we got iPhones with excellent usability instead of windows phones with HD displays.

	▲	linuxftw 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Building products for consumers and building products for engineers are seemingly not the same endeavor. I loved having physical buttons and a keyboard on the early smart phones. They were proper communication devices. Now they are consumer devices.

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kridsdale1 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hard disagree with your disagree.

Apple was saved because it abandoned all its pre-1997 software and adopted NEXTSTEP, which Jobs created.

	▲	linuxftw 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Jobs used Free software to build NEXTSTEP.