[jakarta]

Yeah, if you read "The Pixar Touch" you get a good picture of what Jobs hoped to achieve with Pixar (focusing on selling the hardware to consumers). His main contribution was money. I think it was only after Toy Story did he truly "get" how good the computer animated films could be.

It's funny because in the book they describe the brief period where Pixar was owned by George Lucas, and he too did not have faith in computer animated films.

[nikcub]

I remember reading something along the lines of 'Jobs saw Pixar as the next SGI' - which matches a lot of what has been said in Pixar biographies