Re:Welcome to Apple: A one-party state
by braythwayt on Monday January 13, 2020 @09:11AM
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The folklore.org links I provided go into this and more.
As typed into another reply in this thread...
I think the conclusion to be drawn from discussions like this is that although narcissists like to suggest they and they alone provided the “magic spark” that make projects successful, it is an entire team of people who actually create revolutionary products.
The business press—and society on average—love the myth of the visionary entrepreneur, but upon close inspection, success has many parents.
You create the impression Raskin created the Macintosh instead, but Raskin was working on a text menu based system nothing like the Macintosh so that just flat out doesn't fly. Raskin assembled the Macintosh team, but the creative vision for the Mac certainly didn't come from Raskin.