The Tweaker: The Real Genius of Steve Jobs

Great piece by Malcolm Gladwell of The New Yorker.
I never was a big fan of Steve Jobs, and I am sure that I wasn’t the only one that rolled an eye ball or two after hearing people describe him as the greatest inventor of our time.

This guy badgered me about how Microsoft was going to completely change the world with this tablet PC software and eliminate all notebook computers, and Apple ought to license his Microsoft software. But he was doing the device all wrong. It had a stylus. As soon as you have a stylus, you’re dead. This dinner was like the tenth time he talked to me about it, and I was so sick of it that I came home and said, “Fuck this, let’s show him what a tablet can really be.”

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