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NeXT changed its business plan in mid-1986. The company decided to develop both computer hardware and software, instead of just a low-end workstation. A team led by Avie Tevanian, who had joined the company after working as one of the Mach kernel engineers at Carnegie Mellon University, was to develop the NeXTSTEP operating system. The hardware division, led by Rich Page — one of the cofounders who had previously led the Apple Lisa team — designed and developed the hardware. NeXT's first factory was completed in Fremont, California in 1987.[19] It was capable of producing 150,000 machines per year.[19] NeXT's first workstation was officially named the NeXT Computer, although it was widely termed "the cube"[23] because of its distinctive case, a 1 ft magnesium cube, designed by Apple IIc case designer Frogdesign in accordance with an edict from Jobs.[24]
Steve Jobs is associated with NeXTSTEP's minor success, but be he was not so much an innovator as someone who simply barked out commands to other people who would make his nebulous "visions" into concrete realities. Avie Tevanian was a much greater innovative force in NeXTSTEP as the primary shaper and creator of the Mach Kernel and NeXTSTEP operating system, which was a variant of Unix. Jobs was more of a design adviser having more impact on the design of the NeXT Computer case design than the OS. Steve Jobs is more equatable to the role of Thomas Edison than he is to Nikolai Tesla.
Fair is not a part of this. History shows us that Steve Jobs was not an innovator in his own right. He was a person with an arrogant vision of how things should look or work, but he never did the leg work to make them possible. His employees were always the true innovators because they had to take his wild and often vague concepts and translate them into real things which he would either abruptly give favor to or explode over if they didn't meet his expectations. That's not the hallmark of an innovator. That's the hallmark of a maniacal tyrant bent on fulfilling his own aesthetic narcissism. He was a cult of personality and falsely attributed with greatness made possible by others.
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[–] Morbo 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
Steve Jobs is associated with NeXTSTEP's minor success, but be he was not so much an innovator as someone who simply barked out commands to other people who would make his nebulous "visions" into concrete realities. Avie Tevanian was a much greater innovative force in NeXTSTEP as the primary shaper and creator of the Mach Kernel and NeXTSTEP operating system, which was a variant of Unix. Jobs was more of a design adviser having more impact on the design of the NeXT Computer case design than the OS. Steve Jobs is more equatable to the role of Thomas Edison than he is to Nikolai Tesla.
[–] Tranix [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yeah, reading the Wikipedia articles Lord Nougat linked to, Jobs wasn't the person who made those computers.
[–] lord_nougat 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Ouch!
That does seem like a reasonably fair assessment, though.
[–] Morbo 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Fair is not a part of this. History shows us that Steve Jobs was not an innovator in his own right. He was a person with an arrogant vision of how things should look or work, but he never did the leg work to make them possible. His employees were always the true innovators because they had to take his wild and often vague concepts and translate them into real things which he would either abruptly give favor to or explode over if they didn't meet his expectations. That's not the hallmark of an innovator. That's the hallmark of a maniacal tyrant bent on fulfilling his own aesthetic narcissism. He was a cult of personality and falsely attributed with greatness made possible by others.