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?<p>Thank you.
For some reason more recently this old wive's tale of Steve not being technical has catching on.<p>Read this story here about a 12 year old steve.<p><a href="http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/09/12-year-old-steve-jobs-meets-bill.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/09/12-year-old-steve-jobs-meets...</a><p>And decide if you would still like to believe he's not technical.
To 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.<p>Vision is not just about skills. It is something far deeper and not entirely rational or a result of 10,000 hours of training.<p><a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/index.php/t-19686.html" rel="nofollow">http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/index.php/t-19686.htm...</a> seems to have a good discussion on the subject.