| theprof00 said: At some point rocket you have to ask uourself how much of the work he actually did. Wozniak says that he and zteve were hired to work on a circuit board, beceiving like a dollar for every transistor they removed. Wozniak ended up removing nearly half, a number so astonishijg to the compan that they paid a 500 dollar bonus of which wozniak never even knew about until much later. That kind of guy doesnt demand anyones trust. Of course its going to take time to be revealed, but he likely stole a number of ideas and took credit for the rest. And uou know, i dont understand why bill gates receives like not nearly half the credit jobs gets. The man always said he would donate money and not once in his career did he aside from taking pay cuts. Meanwhile gates funded enoughmoney to cure a disease.... |
When it comes to "the decent human being award", Bill Gates gets the award every time. You won't get an argument from me about that. Steve Jobs was an egotistical asshole.
Whether he "stole" the ideas or not, it really doesn't matter. Where Jobs' true ability lay was in organizing thoughts into a singular vision and whipping people (oftimes brutally) into aligning with that vision until a great product was created. He was often the spearhead in concept development; true, he rarely played a hand in the nuts and bolts of industrial design but he was always there, overseeing the project and making sure it stayed true to his concept. We don't even think of it today but Steve Jobs was instrumental even in things like choosing the font for the original Mac OS, which was a huge part of the UI revolution of the early 80s. His hand is in so many aspects of computing now that it's hard to keep track of them all.
Was Steve Jobs a bad guy? Possibly. Maybe even likely. But being incredibly inventive and a bad guy are not mutually exclusive. He is easily one of the top five most influential people in computing history and may even be the most influential.
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