Re: RIP Steve Jobs... What if he had never been?

[Sylvain Poitras <sylvain.trombone@gmail.com>]

Sorry, but that was partly my point.
Sylvain

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Nah, Mr. Goodman's right — Steve Jobs didn't:
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> http://www.asymco.com/2011/10/06/steve-jobs-didnt/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Asymco+(asymco)&utm_content=Google+Reader
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> (Enjoy)
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> Best,
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> Dennis
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> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Sylvain Poitras
> <sylvain.trombone@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Ah, sorry, got to step in here.  Jobs didn’t MAKE anything.  He 
>>> evangelized> it.  When Wozniak was creating the Apple computer, Jobs 
>>> was hustling for the> money to keep making it.  He was a great 
>>> evangelist for Apple, a great> frontman.  But he didn’t ‘make’ 
>>> anything.>
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>> He made things happen.  He wasn't just hanging out with people who
>> made macs, pixar movies and NeXTCubes.  In fact NeXT and OpenStep are
>> probably his biggest legacies (these are things OS X are made of).
>> It's putting a lot of faith in coincidence to believe he didn't make
>> any of it happen...  he wasn't all about the money.   He founded NeXT
>> and I doubt he just hired a bunch of guys and told them " here's some
>> money, please make something awesome for me and I'll sell it very
>> well."  NeXT made some great computers (for the time) but I don't
>> believe they sold very well.
>>
>> Sylvain
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