Steve Jobs misconceptions?

[melville]

Just out of curiosity, why do people think that Steve Jobs was an inventor who invented the Apple I, Apple II, Ipad, Iphone, and pretty much all of Apple's other products? To be the sole inventor of anything you must have initially designed and produced the product yourself. This implies that Jobs designed the circuits, programmed Apple's devices and hand-built the first prototypes of a particular Apple pc, which is 100% false.

Questions like: "How did Steve Jobs come to making his Apple 1?"
"Did Steve Jobs invent the iphone?"
show that not a lot of people actually know what Steve Jobs did at Apple, and yet they still worship him.

Walter Isaacson, the writer who wrote Jobs' biography after years of interviewing him, was quoted as saying:
"...he didn't know how to write code or program a computer. That was Wozniak's department."

"So much of the information out there about me is wrong.......For instance, there are stories that......
....Steve and I engineerd those first computers together (I did them alone)." -as quoted from iWoz, the biography of Steve Wozniak, Apple cofounder.

If Steve Jobs couldn't write code, wasn't any good at engineering, and lacked the knowledge of computer science, why do people still see him as ths great inventor? His patents were gained fairly by him contributing ideas to Apple's products, but that still doesn't mean he's comparable to Tesla or Einstein.

He was no doubt a legendary businessman, but I doubt that's why Apple fanboys worship him. (They think he invented Apple's products)

[bocley]

It's the same reason that people think that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. The inventors don't get credit, it's the CEOs and good marketers that become famous and get attributed with the inventions.

Here is a GREAT comic about how Thomas Edison was an asshole and why Tesla was one of the greatest inventors in the world: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
It's a brilliant and informative comic and I would recommend a person such as yourself read it.

[felabeorbt]

No misconceptions here. I admire Steve Jobs for his business skills. He was the person who made the final call on every product. He was involved in the whole thinking process of creating a device, software, et cetera. He had a big say in things and he knew what people found important. Steve Jobs made exactly the right choices. He did not want to release new models of devices every month, like HP does for example, but he wanted to stick to a release schedule. Quality, not quantity. He wanted to supply a total solution, unlike Microsoft, HP, et cetera, where he offered a computer and an operating system to match. No, he did not program and I do not know anyone who actually believes that. Steve Jobs simply was a very good business man, who knew exactly what people want and he gave it to us, that is what I admire him for.

[jeff]

It is true. Steve jobs has the great business skills but you will have to admit that he was also a good thinker too. The idea of apple is one of the most innovative ideas till the date. I like him because he was the motivation for the young students to do what you love and love what you do.