Somebody like Steve Jobs is so surrounded by other people thinking about things that probably anything attributed to him is based on something somebody told him, showed him, etc.
The most famous case would be how Jobs visited Xerox PARC and saw the very expensive workstations (minicomputers not microcomputers) they had with GUIs and that inspired the Lisa and then the original Macintosh.
Surely the Apple Newton (development started in 1987, killed by Jobs upon his return)
The most famous case would be how Jobs visited Xerox PARC and saw the very expensive workstations (minicomputers not microcomputers) they had with GUIs and that inspired the Lisa and then the original Macintosh.
Surely the Apple Newton (development started in 1987, killed by Jobs upon his return)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton
was an inspiration for devices like the iPad and the iPhone and not3 Jobs was out from 1985 to 1997