### Comment:
He was very technically competent. He designed the Next computer.

### REPLY:
The Next computer was a massive failure. 
  
 It had an optical drive in the place of a hard drive and exacting Jobsian specifications of being a magnesium cube that required repeated retooling while the company was bleeding money. I think Jobs was also behind some white elephant automated assembly facility when there was clearly no demand. 
  
 Next had quit the hardware business by the time Apple bought them, and would have gone broke if they hadn't.

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