r/whenthe • u/alberto_OmegA black hole • 1d ago

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u/MazzleMaze 1d ago

I dont really get this, nothing is made by yourself. Steve Jobs didn't solely make the UI for the iphone, or choose the hardware, or contact the manufacturers, or create the marketing, etc...

Also, a massive issue with making something is that no one knows about it. You still have to build a community and find a go-to market strategy.

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u/Civil_Salad_9725 1d ago

steve jobs didnt claim he made the phone all by himself though did he?

and some heavy cope in your last paragraph

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u/MazzleMaze 1d ago

Not the point, the point is that Steve Jobs is mainly seen as the reason for Apple and the iPhone. It would be pretty dumb to argue otherwise. No one talks about Wozniak who arguably did more to build the actual product. The point is the people who actually build the product are never seen as the ones who created it.

You clearly have never tried to sell or build a new product.. Marketing is arguably just as important or MORE important than the product itself. You can build something, spend millions of dollars on it, but if no one knows about it you will fail.

Meanwhile you could have a completely shit product, but if you spend millions on marketing hundreds of thousands of people will see it and a % of them will buy it.

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u/Civil_Salad_9725 1d ago

he didnt claim to be the sole developer of it, unlike the people the meme is about.

i didnt say marketing isnt hard. or that bad products out selling good ones with worse marketing isnt a thing. you are coping your inability/unwillingness to create something

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u/MazzleMaze 1d ago

The only difference is they would say 'we' made since they are referring to the company. In that case they can make an LLC and say 'we made this.'

You're essentially arguing semantics because AI BAD!!!!