No, he saw that concepts introduce in the late 60 and the 70s were being iterated at Parc and Parc had come up with several innovations that they had not commercialized yet.

It's not like he stole an Alto computer and copied it - and the Star beat the Lisa to market by several years.

Apple simply did what they do best - find ideas and commercialize them. In exchange they made a deal where Xerox could buy stock (pre-IPO) at a discounted rate and it did net them a bunch of money.

But Jobs loved what he saw, and it's not his fault that Xerox didn't see the future business opportunities and cut a different deal. Same goes for HP and the original Apple I and II.

Two things: I think Jobs was an asshole. And I was on team Amiga until 1993.

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