Who came up with the idea for iPhone, iPod, iPad, and iTunes? Not Steve Jobs?

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I am reading the book "Start wit why?" And in it the author states that Steve Jobs did not come up with the idea for iPhone, iPod, iPad, and iTunes; but instead Steve foster an environment where people were free to come up with crazy ideas.

Is this true?

Does anyone have any good resources like books/articles on the matter?

Thanks in advance.

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Somebody like Steve Jobs is so surrounded by other people thinking about things that probably anything attributed to him is based on something somebody told him, showed him, etc.

The most famous case would be how Jobs visited Xerox PARC and saw the very expensive workstations (minicomputers not microcomputers) they had with GUIs and that inspired the Lisa and then the original Macintosh.

Surely the Apple Newton (development started in 1987, killed by Jobs upon his return)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton

was an inspiration for devices like the iPad and the iPhone and not3 Jobs was out from 1985 to 1997

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