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Re:Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story by talmand on Friday May 18, 2018 @01:54PM (#17103466)
I believe that I made that clear. He was a salesman, obviously a great one, for other people's ideas.
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Re:Jim Black's Steve Jobs Story by abritinthebay on Friday May 18, 2018 @04:04PM (#17104553)
No. He was a businessman and a product guy.

He could sell, but as a side effect.

I see this too often from fellow developers - anyone pushing business objectives and strategy instead of engineering choices is a "salesman". It's not true at all.

Calling Jobs a salesman is like calling Einstein a Civil Rights campaigner. Certainly they both did that, and did it well, but it sort of misses the major thing they were good at.

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