As far as I know, you're right: "Jobs never did a lick of engineering in his life. He had me snowed," Alcorn later recalled. "It took years before I figured out that he was getting Woz to 'come in the back door' and do all the work while he got the credit."

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/127537/Steve_Jobs_Atari_...

No one would look very technical next to Woz. And it's not surprising Jobs farmed out the work to his badass friend.

> "At night the two would collaborate on building it at Atari: Wozniak as engineer, Jobs as breadboarder and tester...."

But this is a very biased way of describing two people working on a technical project. To call one an "engineer" and the other a "breadboarder" as if he sat quietly contributing nothing.

Just because one person is playing second fiddle to a truly gifted technical genius doesn't magically make them non-technical.

If you want to argue Steve Jobs isn't technical, you'll have to set the bar lower than "as good as Woz" or almost none of us will make the cut!

They created the Apple II together. Woz did most of the hard engineering but it was Jobs that shaped it into a product for regular people through a thousand technical decisions.

You cannot create the company or products that Steve Jobs did without being technical. That doesn't mean you have to write the firmware on the wifi chip. It does mean you have to understand thousands of deeply technical concepts about computers.