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How Did Steve Jobs Thrive In A Technical Field With A Non-Technical Background?

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How did Steve Jobs thrive in a technical field with a non-technical background? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by Brett Bilbrey, Retired at Apple, on Quora: I was always very impressed with Steve’s technical knowledge and ability to understand technical issues. A good example of this was when my team created the built in iSight camera. We had to replace the external iSight camera that was a CCD imager, with an internal CMOS imager. We had created a prototype iMac, with the new CMOS imager, and had it sitting next to a system with the old external CCD iSight. It was an A/B comparison, and we had it set up in the Executive board room where Steve could come look at it when he had time. When it came time for Steve to compare the quality of our prototype to the existing external iSight, Steve started asking me very detailed and specific technical questions. I had the answers,

Innovation Consumer Tech How Did Steve Jobs Thrive In A Technical Field With A Non-Technical Background? By Quora , Contributor. Follow Author Dec 13, 2018, 10:39am EST Dec 13, 2018, 10:39am EST This article is more than 7 years old. How did Steve Jobs thrive in a technical field with a non-technical background? originally appeared on Quora : the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world . Answer by Brett Bilbrey , Retired at Apple, on Quora : I was always very impressed with Steve’s technical knowledge and ability to understand t

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