... who was a marketing genius, especially when he had Wozniak's brilliant design to sell. Jobs was great at something, but it wasn't computer technology. It was marketing. NeXT is a prime example: Coolest computers on the block (according to a lot of people), but they went nowhere without the Apple team backing Jobs up.
And, once Jobs went back to Apple and got the Apple engineers behind him, NeXT became OS X and started to succeed.
It's a bit weird to argue that Next failed because its technology didn't live up to its marketing. On the contrary, its technology was excellent but there was no product-market fit. In other words, Next's failure was in marketing, not in engineering.
Jobs gift was to be able to think like a consumer clearer than the consumer and at the same time techinicaly minded enough to get the best from the techs who are so obvistacted from the end user mind-set wise that they need that grounding that Jobs gave them.
Not saying all Apple products are stoner friendly, but they wont give you a bad vibe on a acid trip with there sharp edges. Food for thought but nomatter how you think of him, he stood above the crowd at a level he defined.
Jobs gift was to be able to think like a consumer clearer than the consumer and at the same time techinicaly minded enough to get the best from the techs who are so obvistacted from the end user mind-set wise that they need that grounding that Jobs gave them.
What word is "obvistacted" standing in for? A Google (EN_US) search returns two results, both of which are this post.
... who was a marketing genius, especially when he had Wozniak's brilliant design to sell. Jobs was great at something, but it wasn't computer technology. It was marketing. NeXT is a prime example: Coolest computers on the block (according to a lot of people), but they went nowhere without the Apple team backing Jobs up.
And, once Jobs went back to Apple and got the Apple engineers behind him, NeXT became OS X and started to succeed.