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Old 07-29-2014, 12:39 PM   #77
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Originally Posted by Split98 View Post
Jobs is not very good at product design, and admired Ives' work. Yet, Jobs is regarded as one of the greatest product innovators of all time. Ives is a gigantic part of that.

Having Ives wasn't a weakness of Jobs' it was a strength. If anything, Jobs taking away control from Ives was oftentimes blunders in Apple design (iOS heavy skeuomorphism was urged on by Jobs against Ives' wishes allegedly).

Feaster having great Intel and acting on it appropriately should be viewed a weakness; in the same way we would view the iPhone a great achievement of Jobs'. Yet, at the time, touch screen smart phones were available. What made the iPhone a success was Ives. 100%.
Well besides the "innovation" of a simple user interface, one could say Jobs was good at what he did because he was a complete a-hole, micro-manager (Feaster was not, ex: Weisbrod was never around), short production cycle and time to market (Feaster really did not implement this), had his hand in many cookie jars (Feaster had none, ex: did not watch Cervenka play before he was signed) and demanded perfection in verification steps (Feaster did not, see: CBA screw up), and the most demanding player in the market of NDA's (Feaster sure wasn't, ex: Regehr trade leak among many other leakes).

In fact, the only resembalance Feaster has to Steve Jobs is just that he had to deligate work because he wasn't an expert. Unfortunately, Feaster was not the Steve Jobs of the NHL...
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