« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2013, 02:28:02 AM »
It's a biopic, not a documentary. The storyteller can take certain creative liberties and choose his or her own palette to colour the tale.
I have a tremendous amount of respect for an engineer of Woz's calibre, we had our own uber geeks in the Amiga hardware and software engineering teams so we recognise the skills. But Woz would achieve far less at HP or any other place he may have moved on from there. We know it wouldn't have worked out at Commodore.
It may not be apt to label Steve Jobs as a sales/marketing genius, but he was more often than not a visionary with some moments of sheer brilliance thrown into the mix, but it was his arrogance and the conviction of his own beliefs that made the difference.
It's actually better to read an impartial view in Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers' where you find that neither Steve on his own would have made an impact. A Jobs like personality was definitely missing from the Amiga equation. In many ways it was doomed the second a large corporate machine bought it out.
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