When I look at past year and what was going on with SIA, I think the best comparison
I could make is that SIA team is Wozniak without its Jobs
I could make is that SIA team is Wozniak without its Jobs
Not sure what you mean by that, but you do know that Jobs nearly bankrupted Apple in the early days, and, in fact, never had an original idea in his life? The reason Apple did well when Jobs returned was that he had learned his lesson and let others in the firm do the work for him because he was completely incompetent. He had no programming skills, no engineering skills, let alone any marketing skills. He didn't want to put "i" before each product name, and he called the "Here's to the Crazy Ones" slogan (which a market firm invented), a pile of shit!
And the Mac would never have been created had employees at Apple not insisted that Jobs visit Xerox. He called the first guy who made the suggestion, Jef Raskin, a "shithead".
From "Apple Confidential 2.0" by Owen W. Linzmayer: "Raskin tried convincing Jobs to go see the wonderful stuff at Xerox PARC, but...Jobs considered Raskin a 'shithead who could do no good' so he ignored Raskin's recommendation."
Jobs' lack of technical knowledge & unbearable arrogance and ego also meant that he wouldn't listen when others said that the Lisa's numerous features would mean a high price tag and, therefore, failure. From Apple Confidential 2.0: "After complaining that there was no way they could incorporate all these features and stick to the original schedule and $2,000 target, Rothmuller was fired for being uncooperative (of course, he would be proven correct in due time)."
Jobs was also going to sell his Pixar stock, but held on to it long enough to see the company succeed. Jobs was the biggest, bloated parasite the world has ever seen! He even stole from Wozniak in the early days, before Apple was founded. Wozniak found out about the theft 10 years later. Jobs refused to give shares to certain individuals who had helped Apple's IPO succeed, so Wozniak had to give away some of his shares instead - more theft by Jobs!
Google: "businessinsider Steve Jobs played no role at all in designing the Apple I or Apple II computers, Woz says"
Search YouTube for: "Steve Wozniak Says Lot of Things Wrong With Jobs Movie airmen7"
Move slider to 2:05 and listen what Wozniak says about Jobs.
Wozniak credits another guy with the marketing success of his Apple computer, the only computer bringing in money in those early days:
Google "IT'S NOT STEVE JOBS: Wozniak Reveals The One Person Who Actually Deserves Credit For Apple's Early Success businessinsider"
Also from "Apple Confidential 2.0", p158:
"Jobs' resignation didn't appease Apple. On September 23, the company filed a suit against Jobs and Page, enjoining them from using any proprietary information and charging Jobs with dereliction of his duties as chairman. The suit was ludicrous. Before his resignation, Jobs was considered an incompetent manager with little technical skill, but once he departed he suddenly became a major threat to the well-being of Apple? Realizing the suit only gave Jobs credibility, Apple quietly settled out of court in January 1986.
"With Jobs out of the way, Sculley led Apple through its most prosperous times, helping grow the business from $600 million in net sales when he joined in 1983 to almost $8 billion a decade later."
Jobs also killed GEM on the PC by suing Digital Research, which also used Xerox's graphical user interface - Jobs had stolen the interface and claimed it as his own. That's another long story - of how Bill Gates, a guy who has never written an OS in his life, stole the personal computer OS market from Gary Kildall, by buying a clone of CP/M - the Windows of its day, but far superior! - and renaming it DOS. The Computer History Museum in California correctly names Kildall as the father of the personal computer operating system.
Jobs did NOTHING. Gates did very little! The goal of corporate propaganda is to fool people that CEOs are the most important people in the world - and they're just not! Many are incompetent, or could be replaced with dogs without any harm to a firm's success.
