[mikeash]

People always compare him to Jobs but I don't think it's right. Jobs hated any sort of public failure. He pushed the envelope in some ways, but never put something out there until it was polished and consumer-ready. Jobs was great at seeing how technology could be combined in novel ways and how to boil products down to exactly what they needed, but he didn't push forward entirely new tech, and I can't imagine Jobs publicly showing a video of his flagship product exploding into a fiery mess.