Yeah, I read that: seems to support my point.
Basically: they had been doing it for years, but Jobs saw what was missing to make it actually usable.
Could be wrong: I wasn't there :)
Could be wrong: I wasn't there :)
Jobs was throwing off first impressions, not deep or well considered insights. The question is why a person would go negative in such a situation.
Even when they started NeXT, they still didn't fully realize the full potential of full dynamic, late bounded, messaged based object-oriented programming system.