3 Jul
2012
3 Jul
'12
9:14 p.m.
On 03/07/12 11:16 PM, dwight elvey wrote:
I'm trying to think of anything that Steve Jobs invented.
Does anyone know of something?
He was a great person in some respects but inventer
he wasn't.
Inventors aren't great "inventors" either. You eventually need somebody
to turn an invention into a product (some nerds forget this part). Ask
Microsoft how well their 'inventors' are capturing the smart phone
market. They have thousands of /them/. But no leader.
Inventions that were never properly packaged and marketed are legion:
Every failed business has a few.
Steve Jobs was a visionary in product design, management and marketing.
Nobody else had the vision that could save that company. (Anyone who
remembers Apple from 1990-2011 can vouch for this.)
That said, as a Mac user for 26 years, I completely denounce the ethics
of Apple: their disdain for the open source community that they have
depended upon, and their lack of responsibility in improving worker
conditions and environmental responsibility throughout their supply
chain. Maximising profit does not justify any of this.
--Toby
Dwight