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Many great generals who've won hundereds of battles never fired a shot in the battles they've won.(After the medieval times maybe. Don't quote me Alexander leading the charge amongst cavalries)

I am not a big fan of Jobs, but even to me the correct way to sell the book is probably not to discredit Jobs, but to credit Ives. Designing iPhone, iPad, iPod and etc. is by itself an incredible feat; discrediting Jobs is simply uncalled for.

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Sure - did we discredit him? Is sharing credit with one guy discrediting another?

When you say "he never coded", that's obviously meant to imply something, perhaps to lessen his contributions in some way especially in a forum of coders. What does it have to do with this film at all? Jony Ive didn't write a single line of code either. And Steve Jobs did a lot of design.

Why not just focus on the people you want to cover, without asking the unnecessary question "Did Steve Jobs get too much credit?"

Look, a product guy is nontechnical and often gets credit for greenlighing a solution he'd never have thought of. Was Jobs the ultimate product guy?

Well, many people seem to just view Steve Jobs as a "product guy" that simply greenlighted or nixed products, and that's certainly discrediting him and what he did.

Again, could you explain why you chose that headline? Perhaps because it would grab attention?

For me, all it did was turn me off your book.

What's next, some other people writing a book about Scott Forstall or Bertrand Serlet, saying "Jony Ive never coded. Did we give credit to the wrong guy?"

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