It is quite an irony. If an engineer were to come across a "Jobs" like character, he/she would ignore him/her for the most part. This makes it harder for a "Jobs" like character to make a breakthrough to big stages. To me, he was a brilliant Product Manager. I have seen really good Product Managers who could not write a "select *" query. They have a sense of technology like no others in the sense that they can apply technological solutions to real life problems and envision product futures. They don't care as much about the intrinsic details.

Every time I see a post on HN stating "Here are the things I look for in a Product Manager", I begin envisioning Jobs trying to take on such tests and it is quite funny.