[toyg]

I agree on the overall theory (dominance in a sector tends to shift internal incentives in such a way that the result is an ossified development structure), but I think Jobs' terminology is imprecise. Larry Ellison is not really a product guy first and foremost, he's the definition of a tough salesman. The "bad guys" are a more generic variety of "corporate type" who can materialize in any department, really. Typically they power themselves up the ladder with "cost efficiencies". The most recent Oracle CEOs (Hurd and Catz) fit that profile to a T.

En passant: another big name that suffered from this phenomenon was Nokia.