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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5665946" data-attributes="member: 8835">I'm not really sure exactly what Steve Jobs brought to the table at Apple.I suspect Woz was the brains behind the original Apple computer.And Apple without Jobs floundered.  So he did something.When people talk about Jobs' Reality Distortion Field, it sounds like the way he talked about what a product COULD be like set the direction for what it WOULD be like.In effect Jobs' contribution was that he KNEW what kind of product would really sell, and how that product should look and feel to get that appeal.  With Jobs at the helm of Apple, he could put that power to use, guiding the company to build more appealing products.If Jobs was the god of the hipsters, it is because he intrinsically knew what would appeal to hipsters.  Thus, his products appealed to them.Apple has some product lines to tap before they need "the next big thing."It'll be pretty easy to keep pumping out better iPhones, iPods and iPads for a few years.What happens after that, without Steve?  Hard to say.  Consider the iPod.  Do you really think Steve woke up and thought of that himself?  The portable MP3 player is a no-brainer product.  digital music files, smaller digital medias, and the Sony Walkman are all you need as concepts to think of a portable digital music player.  Odds are good, the iPod wasn't even the first product on the market.  So all Steve did was take the idea and issue orders to make it look good and run well.That's all the new CEO of Apple has to do.  Either himself, or people under him just need Steve's sense of style and featureset to keep making homeruns out of technologies that are emerging.</blockquote>

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