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Ask HN: Did Steve Jobs have any technical skills?

6 points by angrisha ↗ HN
This question has been haunting me for quite some time. Was steve Jobs just the marketing guy? Or was he involved in hardware/software development of the apple devices too?

Thank you.

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willvarfar
Where did he meet Woz? A marketing convention?
profitbaron
Steve Wozniak became friends with Steve Jobs, when Jobs worked for the summer at a company where Wozniak was working on a mainframe computer.
Hitchhiker
To work with someone like Woz in the early days implies that Steve would hold his own at least to herd a bunch of highly skilled folks forward.

Vision is not just about skills. It is something far deeper and not entirely rational or a result of 10,000 hours of training.

http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/index.php/t-19686.htm... seems to have a good discussion on the subject.

glimcat
He was a tech for Atari at one point.