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His tenure is that of a businessman, not an innovator or visionary. Good or bad, Jobs was all three.
Vissonary maybe but innovator?
IPhones & MacBooks were well built & marketed but neither was really innovative.
iPhones literally were visionary. The whole industry was trying to imitate blackberry and overnight apple made them completely irrelevant. Android ch
MacBooks, yea, it’s a laptop. They had some really good ideas in there, sure. MagSafe and touchpads that didnt royally suck ass were welcome features. The M-series lighting a fire under intels ass was exactly what the entire industry needed. Love them more hate them, even when Apple is bad, they create good trouble in an industry that needed to be proven wrong from time to time.
Yes and no, the first iPhone was innovative, but after that, it just became refinement.