@Ididar: ... would not be possible.
However, Steven Jobs was engineer, he had over 330 patented inventions, many of which were engineering ones (mechanical engineering and software engineering, among others). He was also very much electronics guy since being kid -- long before meeting Wozniak.
Jobs could fix a TV by himself, and Jobs was making frequency counter, called Mr.Hewlett to get missing parts. Then he worked shortly at HP, and then at Atari as engineer -- he was qualified enough that Atari sent him alone to Europe to fix problems with the machines.
So Tom Foremski's headline about "marketeer" is a trolling. Marketeers do not reinvent hospital equipment while being on the deathbed as Jobs did.
Jobs was true inventor. Marketeer is Steven Ballmer -- as Jobs said, "saleman" -- remember his Windows 1.0 advertisement from 1985? "But there is more!!! There is calculator and clock!"
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