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Except that no one was building the future the way Jobs did. Having the idea for something is only part of the battle, actually implementing it in a usable fash
by valuearb 9y ago
Except that no one was building the future the way Jobs did. Having the idea for something is only part of the battle, actually implementing it in a usable fashion is the most important part of it.
If you look at the Xerox Alto, and the Macintosh, it's amazing how much more advanced the Macintosh was at UI and how much easier to use it was, and how much less expensive it was (Jobs actually supposedly helped design the Mac mouse, which was really good and super cheap).
- antoniuschan99 9y agoJobs, along with Gates are the Entrepreneurs. Engelbart and Kay are the Academics.
- ggm 9y agoI think this is true. He was a master at removing things to get the essential core, but sometimes it felt over-remorselessly. the one-button thing. A good example of cheap and works: I'm told the floppy disk controller on the apple II or III was a finite state machine implemented by gate logic and two PROM memories. I used a lisa in its year of release and the difference between a lisa and what emerged as that generation of mac was pretty high, but the core? much the same. Appletalk on twisted pair? no addresses but zeroconf: every device named itself. That was smart.