| theprof00 said: Thats like giving charlie credit for his angels |
Not the same thing at all. It was often Jobs that came up with the idea. Did the people around him make those ideas better? Sure, I don't doubt it.
Everything in Apple, Inc has Steve Jobs' fingerprints all over it. The secrecy within the compnay, its heirarchy, the "think different" ideal, the product design, the user interfaces... Did Steve Jobs actually design all of those things? Of course not, Apple, Inc is worth 400 billion dollars. There is no way one man could be responsible for every aspect of a corporation that large.
Okay, let's put it another way. Name me another company that is even 1/10th the size of Apple where the CEO founded it and still heads every major project. And obviously, Jobs wasn't just rubberstamping every project. He personally scrapped the iPhone project and set the team back two years because he didn't like what they were doing. He almost fired the entire MobileMe team on the spot because he was so unhappy with Apple's cloud computing solution. He bought his own company and turned it into OS X.
You're trying really hard to discount the man's accomplishments in the face of piles of evidence that point in the other direction. For what reason? Because you didn't like him? Shit, I don't think anybody really liked Steve Jobs.
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