I don't mean to diss Jobs or imply that he wasn't important, but I don't clearly understand what his role was in Apple's success.
If you watch some of the presentations Jobs gave e.g. during his NeXt days it's pretty clear that he absolutely understands every bit of the technology as good as any engineering manager. The ability to combine technical knowledge with exceptional design, marketing and product development skills is what made him vital to Apple's success.
His role was basically convincing woz to:
a) start AAPL as a company
b) quit his job an HP
c) sell the Apple 1 instead of giving it away.
Needless to say he was pretty important:)
You realize that late 70s and early 80s were full of 100s companies trying to do the same exact thing as Apple right? Just like there were 100s of competitors to Facebook, Dropbox, Reddit and anything you can think of.
Building a successful business is much much harder than building a product - I'm sorry, but speaking as someone who codes, there is no shortage of good technical people really, there is a shortage of people that can build multi-billion dollar businesses from nothing.