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Re:Chinese netbooks break $100 mark... by jacquesm on Friday August 14, 2009 @03:56AM (#762576)
> which is arguably largely due to the effort of a single man!

I doubt that. I'm taking it that you refer to Steve Jobs here, and while he has a ton of influence there are a lot more people making a lot of effort than just him.

Steve Jobs by himself would - just like any other human being - have a hard time designing a functioning and well packaged toaster from scratch.

There are a lot of people involved in product development at Apple, any item they release is the product of the efforts of a very large team.

For the rest of it I completely agree with your comment.

Re:Chinese netbooks break $100 mark... by sho on Friday August 14, 2009 @04:56AM (#762647)
Hm, I meant more that he'd instituted a culture of design obsession at Apple, not that he personally designed each and every product. I think the culture of perfectionism and extreme attention to detail at Apple is largely due to his efforts.

Thanks for the reminder, though.