• verdigris@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    Sure, he was a good salesman, but any perception that he was the idea man was a deliberately cultivated lie. Woz had all the actually good ideas early on, then later it was other engineers.

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      12 days ago

      It isn’t enough to have good ideas if you can’t persuade someone to buy them.

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        12 days ago

        A) I don’t agree, and B) that’s not really relevant or incompatible with what I said.

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        That only makes sense if you assume the only purpose of ideas is to turn them into profit.

        Many of my great ideas COST me money, but I still end up better off afterwards.