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He certainly understood tech enough to have good judgement. What I have seen in companies I worked that was that a lot of executives can be bullshitted a lot because they don't bother understanding the tech. Jobs was at least technical enough to not fall into this trap.

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Yes, he understood very well, I agree. I got downvoted alot on this thread as many people don't seem to want to believe that Steve Jobs was also a techie. They should check out Walter Isaacsons biography if they doubt it. Just because he is the best at marketing didn't mean that he couldn't be a good techie. But it is ok, techies always think in binary terms

From what I have read he never was a big contributor though but his main strength was to look at other people's work and recognize good things.

I dont think he was a very good techie. I don't believe the biography because it was written by choice of Steve Jobs.

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