10-07-2011, 07:16 AM
Really? Edison and Tesla had patents to their name? Gosh...you mean like the 300+ patents registered to Steve Jobs?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/...tents.html
Anyway, Edison didn't invent many of the things (like the lightbulb) he was credited for, but based his work on countless other engineers - improvements over prior art, which is exactly the accusation leveled at Jobs. The trick was, he made them better than anyone else.
As for having an "army" of engineers, designers and testers, I don't remember hearing about any army being squeezed into that garage Jobs and Woz created the Apple I and II in...
And did you work with him at Apple or NeXT? Do you have personal first hand knowledge to indicate he didn't invent anything? Because the people that did work with him sure indicate he did. It's pretty stupid to say to that he didn't invent it because he didn't actually write the source code, or machine the piece of metal. If I have a great idea for a piece of software, and then hire some Indian engineers to code it for me, does that make them the inventors? And fellow business leaders, mostly competitors, are the ones suggesting he's the greatest CEO of his generation, and a genius.
But since you obviously have much better first hand knowledge than any of those people, I bow to your superior insights. Let's go trash the guy who just died from cancer some more.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/...tents.html
Anyway, Edison didn't invent many of the things (like the lightbulb) he was credited for, but based his work on countless other engineers - improvements over prior art, which is exactly the accusation leveled at Jobs. The trick was, he made them better than anyone else.
As for having an "army" of engineers, designers and testers, I don't remember hearing about any army being squeezed into that garage Jobs and Woz created the Apple I and II in...
And did you work with him at Apple or NeXT? Do you have personal first hand knowledge to indicate he didn't invent anything? Because the people that did work with him sure indicate he did. It's pretty stupid to say to that he didn't invent it because he didn't actually write the source code, or machine the piece of metal. If I have a great idea for a piece of software, and then hire some Indian engineers to code it for me, does that make them the inventors? And fellow business leaders, mostly competitors, are the ones suggesting he's the greatest CEO of his generation, and a genius.
But since you obviously have much better first hand knowledge than any of those people, I bow to your superior insights. Let's go trash the guy who just died from cancer some more.
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