The Second-Order Effects of Steve Jobs

Jobs-inspired Apple and NeXT products were platforms for many of the amazing innovations we take for granted today. Much has been written about Steve Jobs´ amazing leadership at Apple and how he transformed the company into one of the world´s most recognizable and profitable brands after his return from NeXT. But if you look closer, it´s easy to find examples of how Jobs-inspired Apple and NeXT products were platforms for many of the amazing innovations we take for granted today. Between 1987 and 1997, we experienced a Cambrian-like explosion of completely new ideas bursting from computer science research labs into broader society at an unprecedented rate. Although Jobs wasn´t directly involved in the innovations around the Internet and World Wide Web, his technologies quite often were the platforms used to launch those innovations.