[danso]

> * Steve Jobs was one of these people. A clever marketing guy who relied on others for technical heavy lifting. I suggest going back and re-watching some of his presentations, like the unveiling of the iPhone. Every word he said was meticulously planned and very rehearsed.*

Before Apple entered its iPod era, Jobs could do a reasonable job of taking questions from a technical audience

https://youtu.be/yQ16_YxLbB8?si=GK5NvbyND1xriiYm

[dogma1138]

No single person on this planet can know everything about a product as complex as a phone or any other modern device, and the expectation of some people form execs even ones who were engineers is simply unrealistic.

If you know everything about your product down to the most low level technical detail your product is either a brick (and I think that even that is too complicated) or you greatly overestimate what you actually know.