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> It's also a good reminder that Jobs, for all the posthumous praise he gets, made some rather stupid business blunders during his tenures at Apple.

Did anyone say that Jobs never made any blunders? Does anyone think that there it any person alive that didn't make blunders?

devwastaken on June 25, 2017 [–]

No one would say 'no' to that, but at the same time people would praise jobs anyways. "See, he made firewire, which made intel make USB 2.0. He knew exactly what he was doing." etc, etc.

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