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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
I think you saying the iPhone changed the way you LIVE, proves what a charismatic salesmen he was. The iPad wasn't magical, but he made you think it was.
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Steve, without doubt, has created products that have CHANGED peoples lives. Sometimes the change has been one of convenience, other times it is much more significant. To you, maybe an iPad isn't magical - to this boy, it's just that.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/nyregion/31owen.html
Was Jobs a marketing genius? Definitely. But how much marketing do you really have to do to sell an Apple product these days?
Jobs falls into company with Edison, Ford and Disney. He was a perfectionist that simply knew he had ideas that could change the world. That, along with a competitive nature to match it made him a once in a generation visionary. There is no one else like him.
"Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or come with me and change the world?" - Jobs in 1983 talking to John Scully, who moved to Apple from the CEO position at Coca-Cola.
RIP Steve.