Fantastic! I highly recommend watching the bit starting from 2:30. It goes against the myth of Steve Jobs as having a magical talent for envisioning finished products.
He says that when they started out:
-They had no idea what people would use these things for
-Designed for 6 months and finally built their first computer
-All their friends wanted one, but it took 40 hours to build and debug a single machine
-They spent all their spare time helping their friends build computers
-So they decided to print circuit boards and sell them, to cut down assembly to 5-10 hours
-They scrounged up $1300 to have a circuit board laid out
-One day, when Jobs was out selling circuit boards, he met someone who wanted to buy 50, but insisted that the machines be fully assembled
-And so on...
Quite a different story than the usual version, which portrays Jobs as a natural genius of knowing exactly what people want before they knew themselves.
He says that when they started out: -They had no idea what people would use these things for -Designed for 6 months and finally built their first computer -All their friends wanted one, but it took 40 hours to build and debug a single machine -They spent all their spare time helping their friends build computers -So they decided to print circuit boards and sell them, to cut down assembly to 5-10 hours -They scrounged up $1300 to have a circuit board laid out -One day, when Jobs was out selling circuit boards, he met someone who wanted to buy 50, but insisted that the machines be fully assembled -And so on...
Quite a different story than the usual version, which portrays Jobs as a natural genius of knowing exactly what people want before they knew themselves.