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Re:Request PG: Could we please have the black bar out for St... by saulrh on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @08:47PM (#3078459)
He introduced millions of hackers to their first computer. I'd call that a contribution, indirect as it is.
Re:Request PG: Could we please have the black bar out for St... by cperciva on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @08:55PM (#3078489)
I attribute that more to Steve Wozniak than to Steve Jobs.
Re:Request PG: Could we please have the black bar out for St... by eropple on Thursday October 06, 2011 @01:49PM (#3080930)
Most nerds do. They fail to realize that very few would have known of Wozniak's work--would not have used it in homes and schools and businesses, would not have been able to integrate the computers that resulted from Wozniak's work in their everyday lives.

Computers for everyone? Yeah, it's the result of marketing, in a lot of ways. But it's also the result of an intuitive understanding of users--of users, not borderline-Asperger's hacker types--and the business discipline and leadership to say "we're going here, I know it's not easy, make it happen." Vision is valuable. Technical contributions are so much less valuable without the vision to apply them to do something great.

Re:Request PG: Could we please have the black bar out for St... by mqatrombone on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @08:58PM (#3078501)
And without Jobs, do you think Wozniak is able to do that?
Re:Request PG: Could we please have the black bar out for St... by bitops on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @09:01PM (#3078511)
Agreed. My first real programming experience was on a Macintosh doing BASIC.