“Steve Jobs, whose death was announced Wednesday night, Oct. 5, 2011, wasn’t a computer scientist. He had no training as a hardware engineer or industrial designer. The businesses Apple entered under his leadership — from personal computers to MP3 players to smart phones — all existed before the company got there,” Harry McCracken writes for TIME Magazine.
“But with astonishing regularity, Jobs did something that few people accomplish even once: he reinvented entire industries,” McCracken writes. “He did it with ones that were new, like PCs, and he did it with ones that were old, like music. And his pace only accelerated over the years.”
McCracken writes, “Jobs’ confidence in the wisdom of his instincts came to be immense, as did the hype he created at Apple product launches. That might have been unbearable if it weren’t the case that his intuition was nearly flawless and the products often lived up to his lofty claims. St. Louis Cardinals pitching great “Dizzy” Dean could have been talking about Jobs rather than himself when he said, ‘It ain’t bragging if you can back it up.'”
Steve Jobs’ career at Apple (in two minutes)
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