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by yardie 3447 days ago
Jobs wrote the Atari game brick breaker. So like Gates, Zuckerberg, and Musk he does have a technical background.
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Not really. He was contracted to do it, but subbed all the actual engineering work to Wozniak then essentially lied to Wozniak about how much that work was worth.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)#History_...

My mistake. I was under the impression it was another game, asteroids.
As the story goes, Wozniak was actually the primary (or maybe even sole?) implementer on that project:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)#History_...

Pretty sure Woz wrote Breakout, with er ... "assistance" from Jobs.