What did Steve Jobs actually make other than hype? He wasn't an engineer and wasn't an inventor. He was a salesman (a great one!) but a salesman at the end of the day.
Seems like you are very new to gathering information about Steve Jobs. There is a ton of literature that could answer that question for you, but to start here's Bard's answer:
Steve Jobs was not an engineer or an inventor, but he was a visionary leader who had a keen eye for design and a passion for simplicity. He was also a master of marketing and storytelling, and he was able to use these skills to create products that were both aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly.
Some of the products that Steve Jobs is credited with creating include:
The Apple II computer (1977)
The Macintosh computer (1984)
The iPod (2001)
The iPhone (2007)
The iPad (2010)
These products were all revolutionary in their own way, and they helped to shape the way we use technology today. Steve Jobs was not an engineer or an inventor, but he was a visionary leader who had a profound impact on the world.
It is true that Steve Jobs was a salesman, but he was also much more than that. He was a creative genius who had a deep understanding of human needs and desires. He was able to take complex technology and make it simple and accessible to everyone. He was also a master of marketing and storytelling, and he was able to use these skills to create products that were both aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly.
Steve Jobs was a complex and controversial figure, but there is no doubt that he was a visionary leader who had a profound impact on the world. He was a master of design, marketing, and storytelling, and he was able to use these skills to create products that changed the way we live and work.
"Slazinger claims to have learned from history that most people cannot open their minds to new ideas unless a mind-opening team with a peculiar membership goes to work on them. Otherwise, life will go on exactly as before, no matter how painful, unrealistic, unjust, ludicrous, or downright dumb that life may be.
The team must consist of three sorts of specialists, he says. Otherwise the revolution, whether in politics or the arts or the sciences or whatever, is sure to fail.
The rarest of these specialists, he says, is an authentic genius — a person capable of having seemingly good ideas not in general circulation. “A genius working alone,” he says, “is invariably ignored as a lunatic.”
The second sort of specialist is a lot easier to find: a highly intelligent citizen in good standing in his or her community, who understands and admires the fresh ideas of the genius, and who testifies that the genius is far from mad. “A person like this working alone,” says Slazinger, “can only yearn loud for changes, but fail to say what their shapes should be.”
The third sort of specialist is a person who can explain everything, no matter how complicated, to the satisfaction of most people, no matter how stupid or pigheaded they may be. “He will say almost anything in order to be interesting and exciting,” says Slazinger. “Working alone, depending solely on his own shallow ideas, he would be regarded as being as full of shit as a Christmas turkey.”
Slazinger, high as a kite, says that every successful revolution, including Abstract Expressionism, the one I took part in, had that cast of characters at the top — Pollock being the genius in our case, Lenin being the one in Russia’s, Christ being the one in Christianity’s.
He says that if you can’t get a cast like that together, you can forget changing anything in a great big way."
Steve Jobs started out a #3, worked his way to being a #2, and was able to attract and retain #1's
It's approximately the structure Microsoft had in its early core Gates + Allen + Ballmer. Vision (Allen), engineering (Gates + Allen), understanding tech (Gates + Allen), pragmatism (Gates), selling (Ballmer).
I'm sure all sorts of variations of combinations will work (and in different quantities), but you need most of it to build something big from something small.
Compare to Edison, who was both an inventor and a successful businessman. His products are in use and delivering benefits to almost everyone in the world today.
All the laud for Jobs ignores that there is a sizable portion of people who don't use Apple products and do just fine. I've been using computers since the time when the only Apple Corp. was the Beatles' record label, and with one minor exception[0] have never felt the need to purchase any Apple computer product or software or MP3. I have eight computers, one MP3 player, and one smartphone at this time and they are all Linux or Windows or Android machines.
[0]One time many years ago I need software to play a video on short notice and paid for a license for Quicktime.
I am not a Jobs admirer, but he created the company where the people made the products. Somebody has to light the spark, and we should not underestimate its importance.
