Ask HN: Did Steve Jobs have any technical skills?

[angrisha]

This question has been haunting me for quite some time. Was steve Jobs just the marketing guy? Or was he involved in hardware/software development of the apple devices too?

Thank you.

[wh-uws]

For some reason more recently this old wive's tale of Steve not being technical has catching on.

Read this story here about a 12 year old steve.

http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/09/12-year-old-steve-jobs-meets...

And decide if you would still like to believe he's not technical.

[Hitchhiker]

To work with someone like Woz in the early days implies that Steve would hold his own at least to herd a bunch of highly skilled folks forward.

Vision is not just about skills. It is something far deeper and not entirely rational or a result of 10,000 hours of training.

http://forums.appleinsider.com/archive/index.php/t-19686.htm... seems to have a good discussion on the subject.

[willvarfar]

Where did he meet Woz? A marketing convention?

[profitbaron]

Steve Wozniak became friends with Steve Jobs, when Jobs worked for the summer at a company where Wozniak was working on a mainframe computer.

[coryl]

Possibly HP?

[glimcat]

He was a tech for Atari at one point.