Check out Clive Sinclair - he was an engineer and did pretty damn well selling his computers in the UK.
Kinda, I mean he did well, but it went under. Acorn did somewhat better and parts of Acorn are alive and well to this day.
Furber and Wilson lacked that marketing muscle. Were they a unique talent? I mean... no one else did that. Their CPU worked first time, outperformed their contemporaries, ran at a fraction of the power cost a fraction of the amount and went on to become massively popular.
Maybe Woz couldn't have done that, but it doesn't mean Jobs was the one required to help him, any competenant marketing type could have done the same. Vew few people could have designed the hardware and software that Woz did at the time.
I'd argue that Jobs was unusually good at marketing. Maybe as rare as Woz. I mean, look at the cult of personality that's developed around him where people think Apple (or really Jobs himself) invented all sorts of things which were actually popularized by Apple, but invented by someone else.
His schtick works.
Wait what?
Are you also dating that love does not in fact transcend the fifth dimension and interstellar was also bullshit?
Come on man.
Jobs gets all the accolades and fame but he was just a pushy sociopath in a suit,
Suit? The guy who famously wore a black turtleneck all the time?
Anyhoo. I think people outside tech overestimate the importance of CEOs and people in tech underestimate it. Without Jobs, Woz probably would have been a really great engineer in some company and you'd never have heard of him at all. He wasn't a product guy, and you need a product not just raw tech to sell. Selling stuff being somewhat important for a company.
Steve Jobs also had a functioning reality distortion field, something not all that many people have and that's really important for building a company...
Age verification is an outgrowth of the christian nationalism, it is a core part of Republican identity politics.
It may be many things but it ain't that.
Slavery was once legal because there were not laws AGAINST it. Laws don't make things legal, they make them illegal.
What utter bullshit.
The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political; but only positive law, -- Lord Chief Justice William Mansfield
And you know that general line of reasoning was why slavery had to be actually recognised in the constitution because if you have a nation of any laws at all you need to pass a law to not have them apply to some people.
Tencent?
They are on the steering committee.
no matter how "open source" they claim the process to be, and subject to American export laws.
What? A process isn't open source, code is. There are open source implementations of AV1 (or 2) and H.265 (and 6). Anything can be subject to American export laws, whether or not it makes sense, but America can't enforce that outside America (or even inside some of the time).
"It ain't over until it's over." -- Casey Stengel
