This question has been haunting me for quite some time. Was steve Jobs just the marketing guy? Or was he involved in hardware/software development of the apple devices too?
Thank you.
Ask HN: Did Steve Jobs have any technical skills?
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#2Where did he meet Woz? A marketing convention?
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#3To work with someone like Woz in the early days implies that Steve would hold his own at least to herd a bunch of highly skilled folks forward.
Vision is not just about skills. It is something far deeper and not entirely rational or a result of 10,000 hours of training.
http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/index.php/t-19686.htm... seems to have a good discussion on the subject.
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#4He was a tech for Atari at one point.
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#5Where did he meet Woz? A marketing convention?
Steve Wozniak became friends with Steve Jobs, when Jobs worked for the summer at a company where Wozniak was working on a mainframe computer.
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#7For some reason more recently this old wive's tale of Steve not being technical has catching on.
Read this story here about a 12 year old steve.
http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/09/12-year-old-steve-jobs-meets...
And decide if you would still like to believe he's not technical.