Does Jobs know how to understand technology?

When it comes to Jobs, people always stick it up with "the "great paranoia"", "harsh aesthetic fascination", "crazy pursuit of the perfect details" label, and rarely discuss whether Jobs can understand the technology? Did Jobs write the code? Will it design the circuit?

Jobs' father (adoption) was originally a businessman who was engaged in the modification and sale of used cars, which made Jobs often have access to mechanical equipment. In high school, Jobs met his later Apple I creator Stephen Wozniak through friends. During this period, the two listened to music and made electronic instruments together, the most famous of which was the thief calling device called "Blue Scorpion". The two sold the device and earned a sum of money.

In an article in Southern People’s Weekly 2011, I wrote:

At the age of 10, Jobs’ interest in electronics was evident. In California, emerging electronics companies have sprung up. On weekends, engineers from HP and other electronics companies will perform repairs in their own garages. Once, an engineer sent him a carbon crystal microphone.

After Steve Jobs met the most important person for his later success - Steve Wozniak.

Woz, who is five years older than Jobs, is a well-known electronics expert who was a first-year student at Colorado State University and was driven out of school because of spoofing computer management. When he saw his computer in the Woz garage, Jobs, who had always been proud of his electronics knowledge, was awake. "In electronics, Woz is the first person I met who was taller than me."

The two geniuses quickly got a collaboration that began with a prank. In an old hacker, Jobs and Watts saw a practice of stealing long distance calls. The two decided to design their own device. After several trials, Woz designed an electronic device with a very good performance called "blue scorpion". When they show off to their friends, everyone wants to ask them to get one.

Jobs convinced Woz to sell "blue scorpion" on campus. He started his business by bargaining with electronic components. The first batch sold for $40 each. Due to the popularity, he gradually raised the price to 150 yuan and provided after-sales service, and finally sold it for $300.

It can be said that Jobs itself is a geek-born and very business-minded.

The first job in his life is also technical, and there are some interesting tidbits.

(Some people say that Jobs is a technical engineer at Atari because he has a product designed by Woz. Jobs has very little expertise in board design. It's all Woz. )

Some information from Wikipedia:

In 1974, after the university was suspended from school, Jobs worked at Atari as a technician. Then he went to India for a cloud tour for 7 months. In 1975, Steve Jobs, who returned to Atari again, was awarded the task of designing a circuit board for a game product project. It is said that Atari promised to reward $100 with one less component, perhaps with no interest in board design or Knowledge, Jobs "outsourced" the project to Woz, and Woz did not expect to minimize the number of components. However, when Jobs told Woz that Atari only gave them $600 (instead of the actual $5,000), Woz finally got only $300.

Jobs is not a science and engineering graduate.

After graduating from homestead high school in California, Jobs did not choose Stanford University next to his home, but instead chose Reed College, which was full of hippie spirit and free spirit. In addition to studying at school, Jobs studied Buddhist Zen, dieting, and the ridiculous things of his peers. After being tired of the university's major courses, Jobs decided to leave school. Although he has been absent from school, Reed College still allows him to attend courses such as calligraphy art design classes.

In the future, Jobs also said that the literacy of calligraphy art made him pay special attention to the aesthetics of computer software.

On Quora, some people think that Jobs is more of a systems thinker , and systems thinker is often regarded as a "technical" category, but that doesn't mean they are engineers, developers or IT staff. Most technicians are very detailed, but often overlook the broader ecosystem. From this perspective, although Jobs' technical level is lower, it is more holistic. This is why Apple continues to “surprise” people.

Jobs has no knowledge of chips or software, but he understands how this process works.

Square Chief Operating Officer Keith Rabois wrote:

Although Steve Jobs lacks formal electronic technology training, Jobs understands the nuances of these chips and can create a new design for this.

Nick Lekuona, who worked at Apple, said:

He is very skilled in electronics and has enough knowledge to understand the team of instructors and electronic engineers . Although he can't make it himself, he knows what is necessary, what is possible, what is impossible, and when he sees a technique, he can understand whether it is valuable.

Ted Matsumura of the University of California, Los Angeles also claims:

“I talked to Steve Jobs about communication between Ethernet and Token Ring and Appletalk in 1984 or 1985. He knows this is the future of the network. He knows how it works and knows that it will dominate other Layer 2 technologies. ."

What is the level of programming at Jobs?

I know that some people have cited the following interview. Explain that Jobs has a deep understanding of programming. The question is, "What is object-oriented programming?"

Interview with "Rolling Stone" in 1994:

Jeff Goodell: Can you explain in an easy-to-understand language, what is object-oriented programming?

Jobs: The object is like a human being, and it is also a living life. They have the knowledge of reserves, know how to complete the task, they have memories, and they can write down what happened. And your interaction with them is not low-level, but interacts on a highly abstract level, just like our current conversation.

Let me give you an example: If I am your laundry object, you give me your dirty clothes, then give me a message saying: "Clean my clothes." I know where the best laundry in San Francisco is. And I speak English, I have money in my pocket, so I went out to take a taxi and told the driver to take me to this place. I took your clothes to wash, then took a taxi back here, returned the clothes to you and said, "This is your clean clothes."

You don't know how I did it. You don't know where to wash clothes, maybe you speak French, or you have no money in your pocket, you can't even drive a car. But I know how to do it, and you don't need to know any details. All of these complex processes are hidden inside me, we interact at a high level of abstraction, which is the object. They encapsulate complex processes internally, and the interfaces presented to the outside world are high-level and abstract.

Of course, this passage does not explain Jobs' programming level. Bill Gates spoke out that "Steve Jobs will not program", but in the eyes of Bill Gates, this super programmer does not mean that programming can not write code. .

According to information, Jobs was programmed with BASIC on the HP9100 when he was 12 years old. Later, some simple programs such as a digital frequency calculator will be compiled. But after Apple1 was actually produced, it didn't focus on programming anymore.

If Joe is not bragging,