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    19 hours ago

    It’s unfortunate because his leadership / sense of taste is what made Apple a powerhouse. Under Tim Apple, the software has languished. They’re great at hardware and the software is far from great. What a shame.

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      18 hours ago

      “leadership” by which you mean being abusive to his colleagues and refusing to take a shower.

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        16 hours ago

        He was a dick, but he had a good mind for products. He wasn’t infallible, but he had a sense of taste that was useful in driving others who had greater skills than he.

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        Fact check: he did shower. It’s just his definition of a shower was plunging his feed in the company toilets.

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      18 hours ago

      Eh, I feel like Jobs was in charge when he could create new products.

      Outside of a different Apple Watch launch, I don’t see Jobs really having the ability to create new innovative products.

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        16 hours ago

        He didn’t create new products. He conducted the people who were creating new products and steered them. He wasn’t a genius. He was good at guiding people who were.

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          15 hours ago

          I’m not saying Jobs was a genius, but he was skilled at leading product design teams that turned cutting edge hardware to practical applications that the market could understand.

          And, in general, the market over the past few years has seen little hardware innovation.

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            What? Microsoft is putting an AI key on every keyboard! Now there’s two keys to replace if you don’t run windows. If that’s not innovation, I don’t know what is.