Actually, I think #1 was Steve Wozniak. He's the one that always impressed me. Steve Jobs was the developer, the money guy, the business guy. And, yes, a guy with vision. But Steve W. was the really impressive hardware guy. (Which also may be the case for many of those other things you mention, i.e. the person actually behind them was someone else.)
Just my .02 cents. Marnie In a message dated 10/6/2011 7:33:33 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Four things WRT Steve Jobs and computers: 1. Operationilizing the concept of personal computers; 2. Taking the Xerox PARC notion of a GUI and making it work; 3. The switch from OS-9 to OS-X (which oh-by-the-way also paved the way for the iOS); 4. Well designed usable transportable laptops. The ancillary stuff, like iPods and iPhones, are nice gadgets that I enjoy as consumer and stockholder, and they reflect his passion for design esthetics, but I think his computer influence is far more fundamental and I hope that is what history and the common man will recognize. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
