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As far as I know, you're right: "Jobs never did a lick of engineering in his life. He had me snowed," Alcorn later recalled. "It took years before I figured out that he was getting Woz to 'come in the back door' and do all the work while he got the credit."

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/127537/Steve_Jobs_Atari_...



No one would look very technical next to Woz. And it's not surprising Jobs farmed out the work to his badass friend.

> "At night the two would collaborate on building it at Atari: Wozniak as engineer, Jobs as breadboarder and tester...."

But this is a very biased way of describing two people working on a technical project. To call one an "engineer" and the other a "breadboarder" as if he sat quietly contributing nothing.

Just because one person is playing second fiddle to a truly gifted technical genius doesn't magically make them non-technical.

If you want to argue Steve Jobs isn't technical, you'll have to set the bar lower than "as good as Woz" or almost none of us will make the cut!




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