@mldavis2:
A lot of Apple's company decsions that are attributed to Jobs were actually not his. Jobs was not CEO of Apple (despite co-founding it) until 1997. Jobs was part of the Lisa project until forced out in 1982. The Lisa had cooperative multitasking, protected memory, a HD based OS and expansion. He worked on the Macintosh development until ousted by CEO John Sculley in 1985.
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....which is why Apple finally came up with a PC-clone OS, which is a bit hypocritical in view of Jobs attitude toward the smartphone patents.
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The PC-clone OS is a decendent of NeXTSTEP and OpenSTEP, developed by NeXT computer - founded by Jobs after his ousting from Apple.
Any problems you have with Apple after 1997 you can firmly lay on Job's doorstep.
(believe it or not, I'm not a huge fan of Jobs. He was a visionary, and an industry shaker, but I save my real praise for the Wonderful Wizard of Woz)