What did Steve Jobs invent or thought up himself?

[J-Money]

....on both sides.

that's how epic he was. trolling in death, as we speak.

The ultimate troll.

 

[Locut0s]

Why does one have to invent something to get credit for being great?

Great painters did not invent painting. Great architects did not invent architecture. Great baseball players did not invent baseball.

They took existing thing and made them better than anyone before them ever has and, perhaps, better than anyone who follows them ever will.

SNIP

MotionMan

WTF? This analogy is meaningless. If we are to use this analogy the correct way to use it would be great painters didn't invent paint, great architects didn't invent masonry. But that only proves the point that these people were great

 

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[Printer Bandit]

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loved jony ive's speech and coldplay

 

[MotionMan]

Well, DaVinci actually painted The Annunciation and Mona Lisa--Michelangelo actually painted the Last Judgement, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (with his studio, of course), he created Il David, Moses, La Pieta.

At the same time, these great artists had studios, employing a stable of artists to complete the many, many projects that the masters had designed and had been commissioned to complete. They directed, and their employees set about crafting these large commissioned projects (like the tomb of Julius II), to have the Master's name stamped on top of it.

The latter model, the Studio model--is Jobs. Not so much to discredit his ability to direct; but the real Masters--he actually liked to consider himself an artist--the real Artists touched chisel to stone, brush to plaster, and developed into great directors, while also creating great work until the end of their life (the Dome of St Peters, the 3rd Pieta...).

Jobs didn't touch, or create, a single one of his creations. He strong-armed talent to do his work.


Jobs was not Picasso or Wright--are you going to argue that Picasso never painted a single one of his works?

Babe Ruth didn't simply take credit for those home runs. He actually hit them.

Of course you are taking the analogy a bit too literally.

That being said, Picasso, Wright and Ruth took the idea of painting, architecture and baseball and did things with them, both personally and with the assistance of others, that no one had ever done before, making them better and more popular. They did not invent them, they improved on them, which, I would say, is what Jobs did with personal computing and communications.

Picasso, Wright and Ruth are not besmirched because they did not "invent anything", why is Jobs?

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

WTF? This analogy is meaningless. If we are to use this analogy the correct way to use it would be great painters didn't invent paint, great architects didn't invent masonry. But that only proves the point that these people were great

How is your analogy different than mine?

MotionMan

 

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loved jony ive's speech and coldplay

yep, its 540p "jail broken" version on the pirates bay

I hate streaming sometimes....