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The pool of Wozniakian engineers is limited. And it used to be very, very limited. If it wasn't Jobs, it'd be someone else, and we'd be just as sure that the o
by jacques_chester 10y ago
The pool of Wozniakian engineers is limited. And it used to be very, very limited.
If it wasn't Jobs, it'd be someone else, and we'd be just as sure that the other ubermensch was Destined To Succeed No Matter What.
- valuearb 10y agoWozniak had nothing to do with the success of the Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, or the NeXT OS that runs on them. Steve Jobs was successful with Woz, he was successful without Woz, he was successful when handed a near bankrupt Apple and forced to turn it around. He was even ultimately successful with NeXT, despite a few bone headed decisions.
- jacques_chester 10y agoThese are not events with independent probability. Without Wozniak, there was no Apple.
- valuearb 10y agoJobs had a clear entrepreneurial bent and desire to build technological products. He would have found another engineer and likely his first company is not quite as successful, but very likely the rest of his life isn't much different.
- valuearb 10y agoBTW: The Mac motherboard was designed by Burrell Smith, who was pulled out of Apples service department, later when on to found Radius. Woz was an amazing engineer but Jobs had a knack for finding amazing engineers and getting them to build his ideas.
- nostrademons 10y agoBurrell Smith was pulled out of Apple's service department by Bill Atkinson, not Steve Jobs.
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